30-Day Bestsellers

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...

Author: Daniel C. Guiet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German...

A Richard and Judy summer book club pick 'One of the books of the decade' - Richard Madeley The phenomenal new novel, based on a true story, from the multimillion-copy...

'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes...

To the Australian Army, Private Lawrence Nicholas Kennedy was NX21854, a soldier who served for 1907 days with the 2/4th Australian Army Field Ambulance in Australia, the Middle East, the...

Based on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the...

In Whispering Death , Mark Johnston, one of Australia's leading experts on World War II, explains vividly how more than 130,000 Australian airmen fought Japan from the Pacific War's first...

By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around...

**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to...

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...

'Touching and heartwarming . . . get those tissues ready' - Jill Mansell'A warm and tender tale about the power of books' - Ruth HoganAs the bombs began to fall,...

Bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green is back with her most engrossing, heartfelt World War Two saga yet! Preorder The Wartime Librarian's Secret now! Working for Winston Churchill, can she...

The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops The Nazis styled themselves as warriors against moral...

The truth is waiting to be told ... 'Stunning' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'Spine-tinglingly good' AMANDA GEARD 'Incredible' LORNA COOK *** Cornwall, 1934. Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her...

From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of the critical campaign that became a vital precursor to D-Day. 'James...

From established historian James Holland, this is the top ten bestselling and second biggest history book of 2019. 'A devastating new account..Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military...

In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missing in action. No details were ever given about the incident that took his...

Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of one...

'Masterly ... will surely be the standard history for many years to come ... This is a warning for the future, as much as a judgement on the past' Richard...

A propulsive narrative history of the motivation and mentality behind the Nazis and their supporters. How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration...

'You climb and climb . . . This is the field of battle . . . tonight some of us will be dead . . . You'll never forget Shaggy...

. Gripping account of a little-known but crucial episode in World War IIOne of the biggest 'what if' moments of WWIIPuts a new perspective on Japan's military ambitions in WWII...

'The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword , Hastings's portrait of the individual soldiers who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy. He brings...

Bruce Buckham was captain of one of the finest Lancaster crews in World War II. The Australians were famous for their exploits in the air and infamous for their hijinks...

A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations... Windsor, 1940. Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library...

'Roland Perry shows the true picture . . . enjoyable, clearly argued, comprehensive, and highly readable.' - Michael McKernan, Australian Book Review 11 March 1942: The Japanese have stormed the...

The past can't be locked away forever... _________________________________________________________________ *Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Eve Chase & Lucinda Riley* Sweeping from the French Riviera to the wind-blown Cornish cliffs, lose...

'No man has the command of words needed for conveying.the courage and the cowardice; the loyalty and the treachery; the dedication and the dereliction; the strengths and the frailties; the...

We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures. March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with...

"An absorbing account of romantics enchanted by Kiplingesque myths and the Lawrence of Arabia legend, who cynically harboured the self-contradictory ambition of democratizing the Arab world and Iran while arrogating...

A thrilling mystery adventure based on true historical events, from the author of I, SPY: A BLETCHLEY PARK MYSTERY.Before the war starts, Ned is resigned to a future working in...

'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph , Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume...

With an average age of just twenty-two, the young airmen of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command, all volunteers, began operating within minutes of the start of the Second World...

The No. 1 Bestseller- Hitler's ill-fated final stand, from the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests...

A classic work from the international mega-seller, Antony Beevor, on the terrifying end to the Second World War The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the...

Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications...

'One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story of codebreaking, personal sacrifice and a life lived in the shadows. The history of British codebreaking...

THE NEW BOOK THE TRAITORS CIRCLE COMING SOON FROM JONATHAN FREEDLAND SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE, RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE...

Trails to Freedom is the story of a solo hike across the Alps that brings to life the fascinating, largely unknown history of the Anzac POWs who escaped Fascist Italy...

Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman returns with a brilliantly realised and truly accessible retelling of the book described as Dickens' "most perfect" novel. My story is a long one with...

Jersey, 1943. When the German Army invades the tranquil island, librarian Grace La Motee is determined to keep her services running. Ordered to destroy books which threaten the Nazi regime,...

'The Men Behind Monty' examines the role played by the personal staff in the victorious campaigns of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Britain's most successful field commander since the Duke of...

'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back,...

Flying Angels is a compelling and inspirational story of women of courage in the Second World War, by the world's number one bestselling author, Danielle Steel. It is 1941 and...

The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival...

December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up a 200-foot cliff, in the...