The Choice by Edith Eger
$24.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimagin ...Show more
War by Sebastian Junger
$29.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
In WAR, Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm) turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat--the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon throug ...Show more
The New York Times the Complete World War II: 1939-1945 All the Coverage from the Battlefields and the Home Front by Tom Brokaw
$39.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
Hundreds of the most riveting articles from the archives of The Times--including first-hand accounts of major events and little-known anecdotes--have been selected for inclusion in The New York Times Complete World War II. The book covers the biggest battles of the war from the Battle of the Bulge to th ...Show more
Monash and Chauvel by Roland Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
Monash and Chauvel is a gripping narrative history that follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. Monash commanded the Australian forces on the Western Front at the most crit ...Show more
Zero Night: The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape by Mark Felton
$27.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the hu ...Show more
Operation Mincemeat - The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben MacIntyre
$32.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. This book weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell the full story of Ope ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
$34.95 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
World War II The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
World War II is captured in hundreds of compelling images, presenting the people, places, and politics involved in the epic conflict. Inside this complete visual guide is chronological coverage of the lead up to war, major military battles around the globe, and the aftermath that still influences and im ...Show more
World War II by DK
$19.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: DK Eyewitness
In collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, go back in time and experience history with this picture-led guide to the Second World War. This book tells the story of the second devastating conflict of the 20th century that tore the world apart by - divided by international alliances and growing tensio ...Show more