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
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
Australia's Vietnam - Myth vs History by Mark Dapin
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn't alone. In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myt ...Show more
The Third Chopstick - Tracks Through the Vietnam War by Biff Ward
29.95 AUD
Category: Military
'The Third Chopstick' is the moving story of one woman's passion to bear witness to those involved in that tumultuous time. In starkly beautiful prose Biff Ward, herself a protester, seeks to understand the war from multiple angles. A must-read for all the Vietnam generation, their descendants and frien ...Show more
Running Deep: An Australian Submarine Life by Commodore Peter Scott
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Described by the Honourable Kim Beazley AC as a 'beautifully written memoir', this is the rare and extraordinary story of an Australian submariner.From conducting top-secret missions to making Australian submarine history, Commodore Peter Scott depicts what it takes to be a Submariner.Over a decorated 3 ...Show more
The Skyhawk Years - The a-4 Skyhawk in Australian Service 1968 - 1984 by Peter Greenfield; David Prest
49.95 AUD
Category: Military
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1968 until 1984 with two squadrons: VF805 and VC724. VF805 was the frontline fighter unit that served aboard the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, while VC724 was shore-based for training and support from Naval Air Station Nowra.During th ...Show more
Edith Blake’s War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War by Krista Vane-Tempest
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for France to pick up wounded men from the killing fields of the Western Front. Onboard was 32-year-old Australian nurse, Edith Blake. After being torpedoed by a German U-boat, the ...Show more