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Pumpkinflowers: A soldier's story
It was one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called...
Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's
This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia.Its author, Josef...
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...
Letters from Iwo Jima: The Japanese Eyewitness Stories That Inspired
Clint Eastwood was so moved by this account of the Japanese defence of Iwo Jima that he ended up making two films in 2006. FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, based on...
Battlefield Afghanistan
From interviews with his numerous contacts among the coalition forces stationed in Afghanistan, Mike Ryan has done what journalists have so far been unable to do. Battlefield Afghanistan is the...
Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the tale of the Welsh Guards in Helmand in 2009. Underequipped and overstretched, guardsmen from the coal mining valleys and slate quarry...
Voices from Stalingrad
A fascinating account of the pivotal event of World War II, told through the experiences of the German and Russian soldiers who fought in the battle. Features rare photographs of...
Ivan's War: The Red Army 1941-45
They died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison camps, driven forward in suicidal charges by the secret police. Yet in all...
The Bruneval Raid: Stealing Hitler's Radar
One of the reasons the British won the 'radar war' with Nazi Germany was that we knew precisely how the enemy system worked. This was thanks to a daring commando...
Hellfire
The true story of one man's determination to master the world's deadliest helicopter and of a split-second decision that changed the face of modern warfare. Ed Macy bent every rule...
Fighter Heroes of WWI: The untold story of the brave and daring
The first heroes of the air. Rewriting the rules of military engagement and changing the course of modern history as a result, the pioneering airmen of the First World War...
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. This is the story of how wars are fought now: by children,...
The Goldfish Club
Since the first world war, many hundreds of pilots have been forced to bail out over water. Sometimes in the heat of battle, sometimes in the calm skies of peace...
Australian War Dogs
Australian War Dogs introduces you to man s best friend on the battlefield, the fourlegged digger. Canine troops have served alongside Australia s armed forces for decades. Valued for their...
The Soldier Who Came Back
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'The extraordinary story of one of the most audacious escape attempts of the Second World War' Dan Snow In Northern Poland in 1940, at the Nazi war camp Stalag XX-A,...
Love and War: Stories of War Brides, from the Great War to Vietnam
Popular journalist and author Carol Fallows recreates the urgency and immediacy of these whirlwind wartime romances u the humour and bittersweet moments of the first meeting, the anxious watching and...
Strike Eagle: Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War
The time - January 1991. The place - the skies over Baghdad. Around the world, people are glued to their TV screens as, for the first time in history, CNN...
Lost Anzacs
This book is intended for students of military history and of Commonwealth history.
Courage Under Fire
'A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame...
Apache Dawn: Always outnumbered, never outgunned.
The Apache attack helicopter is the British Army's most awesome weapons system. Deployed for the first time in Afghanistan, it has already passed into legend. The only thing more incredible...
The RSL Book of World War I
True stories of Aussie courage and mateship from the annals of the RSL. Published to mark the centenary of the First World War and of the RSL in 2016, this...
Black Hearts: One platoon's descent into madness in Iraq's triangle of
' Combines elements of In Cold Blood and Black Hawk Down with Apocalypse Now as it builds towards its terrible climax...Extraordinary' New York Times Iraq's `Triangle of Death', 2005. A...
Apache
An astonishing first book, Apache is a story of courage, comradeship, technology and tragedy, during the ongoing war in Afghanistan. 'Apache' is the first book to come from the cockpit...
Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
From the multi-million-selling historian, the remarkable, unknown Cold War story of how one spy saved the world from nuclear war The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in...
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...
Traveller
The book titled Traveller by the author Richard Adams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...
Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon...
I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
"A story of searing clarity from Ukraine's frontlines of an unfathomably resilient, freedom loving people who refuse to bend to Putin's assault on truth and human life." - Nicole Perlroth...
The Tunnels: The Untold Story of the Escapes Under the Berlin Wall
In the summer of 1962, one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate...
The Circuit: An Ex-SAS Soldier, the War on Terror, A True Story
After nearly 20 years of SAS operations, including a never before published role in the infamous Bravo Two Zero patrol, Bob retired from the military to work as an advisor...
Australians at War
This stunning new edition of AK Macdougalls famous pictorial history is a truly masterful work. Covering the more than 100 years in which Australians have been fighting overseas war, it...
Sharp End: The Trauma of a War in Vietnam
There is no time to ponder on the reality of war. Nor do we realise how we have been tested. I'm just grateful that it wasn't me who was wrapped...
The Tiger Man of Vietnam
The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen. In 1963, 28-year-old Australian Captain...
View from a Low Bough
`From the front row of the group of kids, a little boy of about eight gave us the V sign as his older friends had taught him to do. A...
The Commando: The life and death of Cameron Baird, VC, MG
On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit...
Going Back: Australian veterans return to Viet Nam
'What I thought I knew about the Viet Nam War didn't even come close to scratching the surface of what the Viet Nam experience really was all about for my...
Unbroken
The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean....
100 Ways I Almost Died
'Relentless, raw and just impossible to fake. Bram Connolly has survived more in one lifetime than most of us could ever imagine - and takes us right there, with a...
Churchill's Folly: Leros and the Aegean 1943
Today many of the Greek islands of the Dodecanese are popular tourist resorts. However in 1943 they were the scene of the last successful German invasion of the Second World...
Saturday at M.I.9: History of Underground Escape Lines in N.W.Europe
The book titled Saturday at M.I.9: History of Underground Escape Lines in N.W.Europe by the author Airey Neave. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War 1941-45
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...
A Hundred Miles as the Crow Flies: A Great Escape of WW11. A Freedom
After escaping a P.O.W camp with six others, Australian Lance Corporal Ralph Churches went back for his mates, all ninety of them. He got them airlifted to safety from behind...
An Airman's Wife: A True Story of Lovers Seperated by War
Aimee McHardy and William Bond enjoyed a racy and passionate life together long before they were married in January 1917. In her book she speaks of their pre-war vagabond existence,...
SAS: The Ambush: The True Story of One of the SAS's Most Dangerous
'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNab Sierra Leone, 2000. While on patrol as part of a peacekeeping mission, eleven British soldiers are kidnapped. The captors are a dangerous rebel...
The Battle Of Britain: The Fight for Survival in 1940
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Clear blue skies laced white with vapour trails of fighting aircraft... petrol-filled beer bottles in the garden shed to repel the panzers... streets deserted when the Prime Minister was on...
The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park's Role in Breaking Japan's Secret
In the No. 1 bestseller "Station X," Michael Smith brought us the riveting true story of how British experts broke Nazi Germany's wartime codes. In "The Emperor's Codes" he continues...
The Man Who Never Was
This text provides an insider account of the counter-intelligence operation (Operation Mincemeat) which paved the way for the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II. It outlines the audacious...