The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: Military History
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Fatal Mission: The Life and Death of the Crew of the Naughty Nan 467 SQNRAAF by Mal Elliot
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29.99 (66% off)
Category: Military History
Fatal Mission is the story of Australian navigator Oscar Furniss, just one of 55,000 young men who perished while flying for Bomber Command during World War II. Lovingly crafted by his nephew, Mal Elliott, this book brings to life a young man whose name was never spoken by his family and who was a stran ...Show more
A Week in September: A story of enduring love from the Burma Railway by Peter Rees
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34.99 (71% off)
Category: Military History
Through a precious cache of WWII letters, a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and survival, from award-winning and bestselling writer, Peter Rees. Doug Heywood was a grown man when he discovered, in a shoe box hidden in a wardrobe, a time capsule of sorts - ...Show more
Unnecessary Wars by Henry Reynolds
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Category: Military History
'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a threeyear conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had, ostensibly, nothing to do with Australia. Coi ...Show more
Desert Diggers Writings From a War Zone 'Somewhere in the Middle East' 1940-1942 by David Mitchelhill-Green
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Category: Military History
"Desert Diggers: Writings from a War Zone ‘Somewhere in the Middle East’ 1940-1942 draws upon hundreds of soldiers’ letters in a fresh and captivating narrative of the war in North Africa. Desert Diggers follows the first men to volunteer after the outbreak of war in 1939, tracing their adventures in ex ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The Story of the Aussies Who Changed the Course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
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Category: Military History
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
Visual History of World Military Machines - Inside the World's Most Incredible Combat Machines by Alex Harris (Contribution by); J. J. Molloy (Contribution by); Joshua S. Bettis (Contribution by); Josh Denning (Contribution by)
18.99 AUD
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Category: Military History
Discover the incredible combat machines that have graced the skies, land, and sea of the world's most famous conflicts. A fascinating account of the history and development of dozens of legendary military vehicles -- from the German Tiger tanks of the Second World War and the nuclear-powered submarine t ...Show more
The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Military History
"With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous ...Show more
Australia's Lost Heroes: Anzacs in the Russian Civil War 1919 by Damien Wright
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Category: Military History
This extraordinary book is both an engaging military history and an enthralling mystery. Australia’s Lost Heroes tells the astonishing little-known story of the Australian soldiers who fought the Red Army in Russia in 1919 and the personal odyssey, 100 years later, to locate and identify the lost grave ...Show more
Death on Bloody Ridge: Chunuk Bair: the battle that decided the fate of the Gallipoli Campaign by David W. Cameron
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Category: Military History | 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
Let the Bastards Come: The Battle for Kapyong Korea, 23 – 25 April 1951 by David W. Cameron
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Category: Military History
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
The Man Next Door: And Other True Stories of War and Peace by Mike Colman
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Category: Military History
This is a classic collection of war stories from one of Australia's finest writers. Ray McMillan was an aircraftman on the Hudson bomber that sunk the 'Awazisan Maru' - an episode captured in Frank Harding's painting that adorns the cover of this book. Years later, author Mike Colman read the war diarie ...Show more