The Light Dragoons - A Regimental History by Eric Hunt
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Category: Military SPECIALS
The first Light Dragoon troops were originally raised in the mid-18th century for reconnaissance and patrolling. The 13th Light Dragoons were at the forefront of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, and subsequently immortalised by the words of the poet Tennyson. But with the o ...Show more
The Lost Boys - The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War (HB) by Paul Byrnes
19.95 AUD
45.00 (55% off)
Category: Military SPECIALS | Reading Level: very good
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020They were just boys. And they were to face the horrors of a war more diabolical than any of them could have imagined. This is their story. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealander boys enlisted in the First World War, some as young as 13. No one knows how many went to war, but at ...Show more
The Music Maker by Jaci Byrne
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Category: Military SPECIALS
The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace by PATTERSON, SCOTT
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34.99 (71% off)
Category: Military SPECIALS | Series: Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace
At the end of the First World War, there were 270,000 demobilised Australian soldiers in Europe. Getting them home after the Armistice was a task of epic proportions that would take more than two years. In the meantime, how to keep these disgruntled, damaged men with guns occupied? In a word: sport. T ...Show more
The Real History of World War II by Alan Axelrod
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29.99 (76% off)
Category: Military SPECIALS | Series: Real History Ser.
Acclaimed historian, Alan Axelrod recounts the key events of World War II with unflagging humanity, drama, and straightforward explanations of their significance. Authoritative, non-academic and appealingly designed with illustrations, maps and more, this takes a unique approach which favours gripping s ...Show more
The Vietnam Years : From the Jungle to the Australian Suburbs by Michael Caulfield
9.99 AUD
27.00 (63% off)
Category: Military SPECIALS
This is the story of the Vietnam War - not a chronological military history. It was an asymmetric war and this is an asymmetric story. A patrol on the last day was the same as a patrol on the first day - what hasn't been told so far is what really happened on patrols: how men fought, died and came back ...Show more
The Western Front by Phil DWYER & Helen DUFFY
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Category: Military SPECIALS
The Western Front: An Australian Perspective takes a then-and-now approach to the 1914-1918 battlefields, offering a finely balanced mix of words and photographs that will help readers, and visitors to the area, understand and appreciate the Western Front as it once was and as it is today. It is also an ...Show more
Thinks He's a Bird: From Postal Clerk to Pathfinder Pilot by Ian Campbell
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32.99 (69% off)
Category: Military SPECIALS
A remarkable and powerful story of indomitable human spirit, passion and courage. In 1941 when Keith Watson, a teenage postal clerk from country Queensland, enlisted in the RAAF, he had absolutely no idea what he was getting himself into. The following four years were an adrenaline-filled ride of love, ...Show more
Traitors by Frank Walker
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Category: Military SPECIALS
In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would 'pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may be done'. Nowhere did they say th ...Show more
US Small Arms in World War II: A Pictorial History by Tom Laemlein
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Category: Military SPECIALS
From the humorous to the poignant, this incredible collection of wartime images reveals the ordinary GIs on the frontline. From the deserts of North Africa to Normandy and from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima, every theatre of war is covered and each image details the small arms that the average GI carried with ...Show more
United States Army: The Definitive Illustrated History by D. M. Giangreco
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39.99 (62% off)
Category: Military SPECIALS
Through glorious victories, devastating defeats and incredible displays of bravery, award-winning author D.M. Giangreco immerses us in the thrilling history of the U.S. Army. From the defeat of British general Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown, to Antietam on the bloodiest day of the Civil War, to D-Day, t ...Show more
Viking Boys: Beaufighters, Bravery and Lost Airmen by John Quaife
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32.99 (69% off)
Category: Military SPECIALS
An Australian attack aircraft flies into a ship with guns blazing. Both crewmen are killed, but does anyone notice? At the entrance to Orsta fjord, down an overgrown path, a granite stone stands on a rocky outcrop at the water’s edge. Roughly inscribed in English, it records the loss of two yo ...Show more