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As the new Scout District Commissioner, he officiated in welcomes to the then Queensland Head Scout Governor Henry Abel Smith, and Lady May. Les died -- on 11 December 2000...

Volume I in a unique trilogy of books which comprise brilliantly vivid eyewitness accounts of war at sea, in the air and on land in the Second World War. Here...

Just over three months after the surprise air raid over Darwin in 1942, Australians were once again shaken when the Japanese launched a surprise midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour,...

The book titled August '39: The Last Four Weeks of Peace by the author Howarth/Stephen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Written to coincide with the 50th anniversary of The Battle of Britain, with the profits from the book donated to the Douglas Bader Foundation, this book uses first-hand accounts of...

It is widely believed that Japan's opening gambit in World War II was conceived by Admiral Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of Imperial Japan. However, this book sets out to show that it...

The book titled Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. by the author William H Honan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled Round the Clock: The Experience of the Allied Bomber Crews Who Flew by by the author Philip Kaplan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides...

An assured supply of armaments, petrol and foodstuffs from the US was vital to the British war effort, especially in the early days of the Second World War. The route...

The book titled Arnhem Spearhead: A Private Soldier's Story by the author James Sims. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The powerful history of the evacuation of Dunkirk in the words of those who were there. The subject of the new major film by Christopher Nolan It could have been...

The book titled Annabel Karmel's Quick & Easy Series: Parties by the author Annabel Karmel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Eighteen days before Pearl Harbour, Japan opened fire on Australia. The RAN's cover-up of the action that sank HMAS on the 19th November, 1941 has been a public scandal for...

A Nazi scheme to capture the Pope, an IRA plan to invade Northern Ireland, a British plan to attack the Soviet Union after the defeat of Hitler or a Japanese...

Author of "The Hardest Day" and "The Spitfire Story", Alfred Price describes the events of this "turning point" battle in a style which will inform the general reader and trigger...

Harold Guard became a war correspondent quite by chance, after he had been invalided out of the navy following a submarine accident. Thereafter, working for United Press, he gained a...

The origins of 1/1250 and 1/200 scale models can be traced back to the first years of the twentieth century and their use as identification aids by the military during...

The true story of one of the men who took part in the famous Great Escape. When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the...

This book is about a war zone and the people in it. The war was World War II; the zone Australias Northern Territory (7th Military District) with extensions into western...

The book titled Experiences of War: The British Airman by the author Roger A. Freeman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Nation Alone: Battle of Britain, 1940 by the author Arthur Ward. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Of the many characteristics that emerge in warfare, none generates more admiration than gallantry. Using medal groups chosen for their unique combinations of gallantry and campaign awards, Graham Pitchfork pays...

The book titled Conqueror's Road by the author Osmar White. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila unopposed by U.S. forces commanded by General Douglas MacArthur. Manila was a strategic port, a romantic American outpost and a jewel...

The book titled War By Stealth by the author Powell, Alan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet it is a sad testament to our time that those who make...

On 15 September 1940 the Luftwaffe mounted two massive daylight raids on London. RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes responded, and the resulting air combats were among the most concentrated ever fought,...

'The best single-volume history of the war ever written' DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES 'A masterly account of that epic conflict' ROBERT HARRIS The anniversary edition of multi-million copy bestselling author...

The book titled Letters Home by the author L./Arnold Stuart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This expanded 176-page volume in the Legends of Warfare series includes 350 images, making it one of the most comprehensive entries in the series to date. USS Yorktown (CV-10) is...

One of the few RAF aircrew to play a central part in two of the Second World War's most momentous events, the Battle of Britain and D-Day, Cyril 'Frank' Babbage...

The book titled To Win the Winter Sky: Air War Over the Ardennes, 1944-1945 by the author Danny S. Parker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled The Thousand Plan by the author Ralph Barker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A vivid portrait of a world at the end of war, told through 12 months from around the globe. 1945 is a fresh look at the last year of the...

No weapon platform sank more U-boats in the Second World War than the Allied aircraft. Whether it was an American 'plane operating from American escort carriers, US aircraft from Royal...

Over sixty years ago a battle took place that, if it had succeeded, could have shortened the Second World war by six months. The operation to take the bridges at...

An account of the ill-fated RAF raid, in May 1944, on the Panzer tank depot and military barracks at Mailly-le-Camp in preparation for the D-Day landings, which resulted in heavy...

In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a Cryptographer...

Arriving at Ridgewell Air Base in Cambrideshire in July 1943, at a time when the loss rate for bomber crews was at its highest during the war, John Comer miraculously...

Doenitz succeeded Hitler as the last leader of the Third Reich. He is still a potent symbol of division with Germany - regarded by admirers as one of the greatest...

The book titled Duty: A Father, His Son and the Man Who Won the War by the author Bob Greene. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled The Air War, 1939-45 by the author R. J. Overy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Here, for the first time, is the story of the victorious, the vanquished and the forgotten air forces that fought in the Second World War in more than 300 period...

The immediacy of the visual image, plus film and television's ostensible ability to take viewers back into the past, confers a sense of veracity on powerful historical films. This collection...