Spy Who Changed The World by Mike Rossiter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Brilliant German physicist Klaus Fuchs worked on the Manhattan Project and developed many of the significant calculations that led to the creation of nuclear weaponry. He was also a spy. When the three leaders of the victorious allies, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, met at Potsdam in J ...Show more
A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War by Sebastian Faulks
$55.00 AUD
Category: Military
This is a profound, moving and important collection of letters, diaries and memories of the First World War, edited by Sebastian Faulks - author of Birdsong - and Dr Hope Wolf. A Broken World presents a cacophony of voices from and about the Great War in a way never before collected together, telling th ...Show more
Hell-Bent: Australia's leap into the Great War by Douglas Newton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Most histories of Australia's Great War rush their readers into the trenches. This history is very different. For the first time, it examines events closely, even hour-by-hour, in both Britain and Australia during the last days of peace in July-August 1914. London's choice for war was a very close-run t ...Show more
Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China's Long Revolution by FRENCH PAUL
$9.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victors set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan. Yet, the country was to be severely disappointed. This study explores China's betrayal by the West, ...Show more
Flight Command: From the farm to the frontline by John Oddie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
By turns heart-warming and poignant, the story of an Australian farm boy who carved a military career encompassing service in two international wars.
Charles Bean by Ross Coulthart
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
CEW Bean's wartime reports and photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on the shores of Gallipoli and the battlefields of western Europe. In his quest to get the truth, Bean often faced death beside the Diggers in the ...Show more
Lawrence in Arabia - War, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: near fine
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.com's Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014 The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter i ...Show more
Hundred Days: The End Of The Great War by Nick Lloyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
The brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World WarOn the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal moment in modern European and World history. Yet the story of ...Show more
Great War in Ten Contested Questions by Hazel Flynn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
100 years after the Great War, why are we still arguing about how it began, who opposed it, why so many Chinese and Africans joined and how the medical profession rose to the challenge - among other things? As we mark the centenary of the Great War, critical questions remain in contention; how the confl ...Show more
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative non-fiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster On 1 May, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out ...Show more
The Victoria Cross: The Secret History of Britain's Highest Award for Bravery by Gary Mead
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
"When 25-year old Private Johnson Beharry won the Victoria Cross in 2005 for bravery under fire in Iraq, he was the first person to win Britain's highest military honour since the Falklands war in 1982 and the first living recipient since 1969, when two Australians were given the award for action in Vie ...Show more
Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Little more than 10 years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling air forces. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public ...Show more