Assassination of the Butcher of Prague: Reinhard Heydrich Hitler's Protégé by David W. Cameron
29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figurers of the Nazi Third Riech, Reinhard, Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’ and architect of the ‘Final solution’, died from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt carried out just days before. His death caused shockwaves in the Nazi State, and resulted in ...Show more
The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean by Mike Carlton
24.99 AUD
Category: Military
When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. HMAS Vendetta, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Waterhen were old ships, small with worn-o ...Show more
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance by Antony Beevor
24.99 AUD
Category: Military
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Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra: Eyewitness Accounts of Tragedy and Suffering During WW2 by JUDY BALCOMBE
75.00 AUD
Category: Military
The Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra aims to describe the events prior to, during and after the Fall of Singapore and the ways in which former prisoners are remembered on Bangka Island today. It is the product of many years of detailed historical research, interviews with camp surv ...Show more
The Facemaker : One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of WWI by Lindsey Fitzharris
24.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thous ...Show more
He Belonged To Wagga - The Great War, the AIF & Returned Soldiers In An Australian Country Town by Ian Hodges
44.00 AUD
Category: Military
Wagga's volunteers who served in the First World War were the country men of AIF lore. Some who laboured on farms might have been the bushmen of legend; a significant proportion earned their living in the same professions and occupations as city dwellers. Many of the local men who survived were profound ...Show more
The Chipilly Six: Unsung Heroes of the Great War by Lucas Jordan
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen have fallen, for no gain.Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent without ...Show more
Guts Glory and Blunder: Noreuil, 1917 – The Forgotten Fight by Andrew Faulkner
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is a story of a forgotten battle. Other than in the haunted memories of those who fought there, and the families of those who died there, this battle is a footnote in the history books: a backwater off a side road at the end of a cul-de-sac on the battlefield tour trail. Guts Glory and Blunder reac ...Show more
Sailor Soldier Surgeon by Doyle, Simon; Mills, Jenny
40.00 AUD
Category: Military
George Barber was a prominent West Australian who played a significant role with the Australian Corps during World War 1.He had an itinerant and interesting life. As a teenager he worked as a merchant marine sailing on clippers between England and Australia. He went on to study medicine in Middlesex Hos ...Show more
Australian POWs: The untold stories of WWI by David Coombes
12.00 AUD
Category: Military
"Comrades in distress we were, and it was now that one felt the existence of a brotherhood that establishes itself in circumstances of this kind ... A few of the men are very dejected, and appear to be losing all interest in themselves, their habits and practices not being approved by the majority. In s ...Show more
Death on Bloody Ridge: Chunuk Bair: the battle that decided the fate of the Gallipoli Campaign by David W. Cameron
29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
The August Offensive or ‘Anzac Breakout’ at Gallipoli was an attempt to break the stalemate of the campaign. It saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the landing as Commonwealth and Turkish troops fought desperate battles at Lone Pine, German Officers’ Trench, Turkish Quinn’s, The Chessboard, The Ne ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
49.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more