Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes by Chris Masters
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
The Home Front: The never-ending war within our veterans by Patrick Lindsay
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Forty-one Australian soldiers died in action over 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan; in that time more than 1400 veterans have taken their own lives. Veterans today are chronically over-represented when it comes to PTSD, depression, homelessness and suicide. Australians rightfully pause on Anzac Day e ...Show more
Operation Postern by Ian Howie-Willis
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Japanese troops seized and brutally occupied New Guinea's capital, Lae, for 18 months - until 16 September 1943. That day Australian soldiers retook the town against fierce resistance. Defeated, and after suffering huge losses, 8000 Japanese soldiers fled across the formidable 4000-metre mountains behin ...Show more
SINKING OF HMAS SYDNEY by Doctor Tom Lewis
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of Australia’s main combat vessels. On the 19th November 1941, off the coast of Western Australia, The Sydney engaged in a fierce and bloody battle with the German raider Kormoran. Following this action, The Sy ...Show more
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Winner of the Les Carlyon Literary Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Australian History Prize. First Runner Up for Templer Medal Book Prize (UK). Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize, the ACT Notable Book Awards, and the Reid Prize.A remarkable new book about Operation ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The Story of the Aussies Who Changed the Course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
Veiled Valour: Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan and war crimes allegations by Tom Frame
49.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Brereton report - the findings of a long-running inquiry into war crimes allegations involving members of the Australian Special Operations Task Group during their 2005-13 deployment to Afghanistan - was publicly released on 19 November 2020.Veiled Valour, from one of Australia's most respected mili ...Show more
The Path of Infinite Sorrow by Craig Collie; Hajime Marutani
22.99 AUD
Category: Military
The story of the bloody Kokoda campaign, told through the personal experiences of the Japanese soldiers We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back. The Australian story of Kokoda has been told often from the perspective of the Australians. Now, for the first ...Show more
Worth Fighting For - Territorian Indigenous Military Service from the Great War to Vietnam by Norman Cramp
20.00 AUD
Category: Military
The history of Territorian indigenous military service is as long and rich as the history of the Australian military since Federation. Many hundreds of men and women have served in a number of conflicts spanning over a century. In addition, many thousands were employed by the armed forces in the Northe ...Show more
Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachhead at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The end of the Kokoda Campaign in mid-November 1942 marked a turning point fo ...Show more
Let the Bastards Come: The Battle for Kapyong Korea, 23 – 25 April 1951 by David W. Cameron
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Anzac Day 2024 represents the 73rd anniversary of the critical battle of Kapyong (23 to 25 April 1951) This book for the first time tells the full story of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American units involved. Fewer than 1,000 Australian and Canadian infantrymen, supported by New Zealand ar ...Show more
PACIFIC ADVERSARIES VOLUME 2 IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY VS THE ALLIES NEW GUINEA & THE SOLOMONS 1942-1944 by CLARINGBOULD MICHAEL JOHN
34.95 AUD
Category: Military
This Volume Two of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the exaggerated claims made by both sides upon which many tra ...Show more