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Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for
$100.00 AUD
While the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg has been at the centre of scholarly attention, the Tokyo Tribunal has for decades been largely neglected. This is surprising insofar as this...
Operation Relentless: The Hunt for the Richest, Deadliest Criminal in
By 2007 Viktor Bout had become the world's foremost arms dealer. Known as the 'Merchant of Death' he was both "Public Enemy No. 1" to the global intelligence agencies and...
First VCS
Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than...
Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces
The war in Afghanistan has given the public an unprecedented view of America's Special Forces, in situations where traditional arms and movement don't apply. Stiner and Clancy trace the transformation...
Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945
The Second World War was the first in which amphibious landings played a truly significant part in the outcome of a global conflict and in this work, drawing on the...
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
$25.00 AUD
The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca's rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained...
Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was...
War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005
Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches...
The Illusion of Victory: The True Cost of War
The Illusion of Victory demonstrates that most of the rewards of victory in modern warfare are either exaggerated or false. The Illusion of Victory demonstrates that most of the rewards...
Defending the Realm: Inside M15 and the War on Terrorism
A brand new edition of this fascinating book on M15 intelligence operations. Updated and expanded with brand new material on the war on Terrorism such as insider reports on the...
White Ensign: Red Dragon
$15.00 AUD
The book titled White Ensign: Red Dragon by the author Peter Melson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
For the King's Service: Railway Ships at War
In two World Wars, nearly 200 railway-owned ships were converted to operate as troop carriers, hospital ships, minesweepers, and seaplane-carriers, while others carried on normal sailings in a world suddenly...
Grampian Battlefields
Grampian Battlefields covers a time-span of 1,661 years. It forms an exercise in historical reasoning an d historical imagination. '
Mud & Dust: Australian Army Vehicles & Artillery in Vietnam
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p>This beautiful book showcases stunning photography and an accurate history of vehicles and artillery used during the Vietnam War./p>p>In association with the Australian War Memorial, Mud amp; Dust showcases photographs...
The Ship That Would Not Die: USS Queens, SS Excambion, and USTS Texas
Starting its life as an attack transport in World War II-and one of the last five left afloat by war's end-the USS Queens saw action at Iwo Jima and other...
Racing the Sunrise: Reinforcing America's Pacific Outposts, 1941 -
Glen Williford lends new insight to the reasons for America's relatively quick comeback from the attack on Pearl Harbour. For the first time, he tells the complete story of American...
HMCS "Swansea": The Life and Times of a Frigate
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HMCS Swansea is the story of a ship, just one of Canada's several hundred warships. It is also the story of the men who served in her, and of other...
United States Coastguard in World War II
Originally published in 1957, this intimate view of the Coast Guard's dramatic World War II record has long been considered a classic. Out of print for years, it is once...
From Horse to Helicopter: Transporting the British Army in War and
This is a pictorial history of Army transportation. The book outlines the development of the three modes of transport used in supporting the British Army on land, in water and...
SAS: Rogue Heroes - the Authorized Wartime History
In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was...
Tiger Territory: The Untold Story of the Royal Australian Navy from
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Between 1948 and 1971 ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy served with almost unnoticed distinction in defending the newly emerging nations of Malaya, Malaysia and Singapore. In this...
Fighting to the Finish: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War,
$300.00 AUD
Fighting to the Finish tells the story of the Australian Army in Vietnam during the peak years of the Australian military commitment to Vietnam War. As the ninth and final...
The Armed Forces of New Zealand
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New Zealand is, by any criterion, a small nation. On the edge of one of the most rapidly changing regions of the world, New Zealand is having to redefine its...
Amphibious Warfare: The Theory and Practice of Amphibious Operations
A full history of the theory and practice of amphibious operations in the 20th century. The text takes the reader through a stage-by-stage account of amphibious tactical operations, and includes...
From the Sea: US Navy Marine Corps into the 21st Century
Since the early 1980s, photographer Brian Wolff has travelled the world capturing images of life in the US Navy and Marine Corps. Author John Alexander has 22 years of service...
Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire
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Based on official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps sources, as well as British Admiralty and Japanese records, a dramatic narrative unfolds, reflecting the hard-fought carrier actions, air strikes, kamikaze assaults,...
Ships without Names: Story of the Royal Navy's Tank Landing Ships of
$60.00 AUD
This is an illustrated account of these remarkable vessels which played a crucial role in the Allied offensives of the 1939-45 war. The American-built landing ship was a vessel of...
Armed Forces of the United Kingdom 2010 -2011, The
This comprehensive pocket guide includes full and up-to-date details of all British military organisations and structures. This edition includes detail regarding all of the UK MoD's latest future force proposals....
Assault Landing Craft: Design, Construction & Operations
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The landing craft assault or LCA was one of the unsung heroes of the Second World War. It took part in practically every amphibious operation from Norway to Normandy and...
Blockade Busters, The
Recounts one of the greatest sea stories of World War II. It is the story of how George Binney, a 39 year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden when Norway was...
Central Powers of the Russian Front 1914-1918
Arranged in five sections, one for each year of the War, this superbly illustrated book covers the fluid fighting that took place on the Russian Front from August 1914. Each...
Oliphant: The Australian genius who developed radar and showed
'Genius, complex, authentic - Roland Perry captures all the essential characteristics of this globally recognised Australian who was influenced by the giants of science and then became one himself.' Dr...
Hercules
The legendary story of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft, told through the eyes of former Hercules captain and RAF 47 Squadron member Scott Bateman In war, natural disaster, or humanitarian...
Air Commandos Against Japan: Allied Special Operations in World War II
In 1943, in response to Orde Wingate's account to President Roosevelt of what could be done in Burma with proper air support, the U.S. Army Air Forces created what would...
Soldiers Lost at Sea: A Chronicle of Troopship Disasters
Heroism, tragedy, devotion to duty, and scandal are just a few of the ingredients that make up this dramatic first-time account of troopship losses in wartime. International in scope, it...
On the Swing Shift: Building Liberty Ships in Savannah
During World War II eighty-eight of the almost three thousand Liberty ships built in America were launched in Savannah, Georgia. Without Liberty ships, the Battle of the Atlantic might have...
The Water is Never Cold: The Origins of U.S. Naval Combat Demolition
The Water Is Never Cold is a groundbreaking study of the birth of the U.S. Navy's combat demolition teams. Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDUs) and Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs), little-known...