Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
The Wagner Group: From Savage Global Mercenaries to Vladimir Putin's Unlikely Nemesis by Owen Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History & military
This is the first book on the Wagner Group, the shadowy Russian paramilitary organisation that fought in Ukraine and staged a surprise uprising against Vladimir Putin on 23-24 June. It has been involved in conflicts in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, Venezuela and Mali, committing war crimes ...Show more
The Passion for Aussie-Built Cars by Steve Reid
$49.99 AUD
Category: History & military
This book looks at 50-odd individual cars that have been carefully restored and maintained here in Australia, covering a wide range of variations and models, all ones that were only originally available in the Aussie and New Zealand markets. It takes us back to a time when cars and commercial vehicles w ...Show more
Helpem Fren: Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands 2003-2017 by Michael Wesley
$40.00 AUD
Category: History & military
In 2003 Australia conceived, financed and led a Pacific-wide intervention into Solomon Islands to prevent the collapse of that state. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) was to remain there for fourteen years, costing over $2 billion and involving thousands of soldiers, police and ...Show more
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
$37.99 AUD
Category: History & military
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
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
$49.99 AUD
Category: History & military
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
The Art of War (Hero Classics) by Sun Tzu
$22.99 AUD
Category: History & military | Series: Hero Classics Ser.
Although there are many classic treatises on the subject, it may be said that no greater work on the subject of military theory exists than Sun Tzu's "The Art of War." It is certainly one of the oldest known books on the subject having been written some 2500 years ago. Sun Tzu, a Chinese general, milita ...Show more
The Murder Squad: How Australia's toughest cops hunted the monsters of the Great Depression by Michael Adams
$34.99 AUD
Category: History & military
How the New South Wales Police Force's finest solved murders in one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian history As Australia sank into the darkest days of the Great Depression, a succession of bloody mysteries grabbed headlines and gripped the country. The Hammer Horror, The Bungendore Bones, T ...Show more
Unfortunate Ends On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England by Soren Lily
$27.99 AUD
Category: History & military
From the author of Twitter’s Medieval Death Bot comes Unfortunate Ends: On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England, an illuminating collection of in-depth looks at the most interesting cases from medieval coroners’ rolls Thomas, son of Henry Robekyn, died 1286 after cutting off his left foot and the ...Show more
World Order - Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History by Henry Kissinger
$24.99 AUD
Category: History & military | Reading Level: very good
In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and state ...Show more
Fairey Firefly by Matt Willis
$44.99 AUD
Category: History & military | Series: Historic Military Aircraft Ser.
The Fairey Firefly two-seater strike-fighter emerged from troubled beginnings to become one of the most widely used and effective aircraft of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It first saw service in 1944 during the attacks on the battleship Tirpitz as it lurked in the Norwegian fjords, then served in the ...Show more
Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding by KEN PETER AND SPILLMAN DOWDING
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research to reveal, for the first time, his coming of age as a leader in escape and evasion during World War II. Dowdi ...Show more