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Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbruck: The Nazi's

Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbruck: The Nazi's

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From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist...
The Golden Age Of Australian Radio Drama

The Golden Age Of Australian Radio Drama

$49.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
These were the halycon days, before television. For Australian people radio was a major source of entertainment and information, a link to worlds far beyond their own. This book evokes...
A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990

A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990

$65.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked...
War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia,

War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia,

$192.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
This book investigates the political context and intentions behind the trialling of Japanese war criminals in the wake of World War Two. After the Second World War in Asia, the...
British Theatre And The Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism

British Theatre And The Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism

$57.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
This work explores how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge...
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

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Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin, brilliantly conveying the reality...
The Changi Book

The Changi Book

$40.00 AUD
The story of Changi, told by those who lived through it. In the tradition of The Anzac Book comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi...
The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front

The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front

$45.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men...
Lifeline: The Merchant Navy at War, 1939-45

Lifeline: The Merchant Navy at War, 1939-45

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The Merchant Navy suffered proportionately the highest casualties of any of the Services in the Second World War, approximately 30,0000 of the 185,000 seamen who served being killed. Yet their...
Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945

Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945

$57.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
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...
SECRET AGENTS POCKET MANUAL

SECRET AGENTS POCKET MANUAL

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Most wars have had some element of espionage and subterfuge, but few have included as much as the Second World War, where the all-embracing nature of the conflict, new technology,...
HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story

HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story

$57.99 AUD$45.00 AUD
On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only...
Saving Big Ben: The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan

Saving Big Ben: The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan

$69.99 AUD$55.00 AUD
Father Joe O'Callahan, S.J. was the unlikeliest war hero. A bespectacled math professor from Holy Cross, he became the U.S. Navy's first Jesuit chaplain in World War II and served...
The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific, 1945

The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific, 1945

$29.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter...
World War II Close Up: They Saved the Stallions

World War II Close Up: They Saved the Stallions

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In the closing months of World War II, American bombs rained down on Nazi Germany and its territories, including Austria. As glass shattered around them in Vienna, an ordinary-looking horse...
Please Write Soon: An unforgettable story of two cousins in World War

Please Write Soon: An unforgettable story of two cousins in World War

$16.99 AUD$8.00 AUD
Inspired by the true story of his father's cousin, Michael Rosen presents an astonishing wartime story of perseverance and hope in the face of horrors and hardship. Beginning in 1939,...
The History Of Prahran

The History Of Prahran

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In this book, the residents of Prahran, past and present, tell something of their own stories. These are as diverse as Prahran itself. There are tales of wine and roses...
Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That

Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That

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On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to...
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath

Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath

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How much of a surprise was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour? History has tended to blame the two commanders of Hawaii's military installations, Admiral Kimmel and General Short, for...
For the King's Service: Railway Ships at War

For the King's Service: Railway Ships at War

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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...
Sas With the Maquis: in Action With the French Resistance,

Sas With the Maquis: in Action With the French Resistance,

$37.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
-- First-hand account of SAS operations in France 1944 -- Written immediately after the events took place -- First trade paperback edition (hardback first published 1994) In this exciting first-hand...
Little Cyclone

Little Cyclone

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It was known as the Comet Line. It was the greatest escape route in the Resistance Movement and in its three years of life it saved over 800 airmen and...
Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army: The Official List of SOE

Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army: The Official List of SOE

$80.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its...
The Ship That Would Not Die: USS Queens, SS Excambion, and USTS Texas

The Ship That Would Not Die: USS Queens, SS Excambion, and USTS Texas

$45.10 AUD$20.00 AUD
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 -

Racing the Sunrise: Reinforcing America's Pacific Outposts, 1941 -

$75.00 AUD$50.00 AUD
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...
Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor

Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor

$95.00 AUD$40.00 AUD
The attack on Pearl Harbor is a topic of perennial interest to the American public, and a long line of popular books and movies have focused on the attack or...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

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A "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing" ( Wall Street Journal ) new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own...
The Bomber Command Memorial: We Will Remember Them

The Bomber Command Memorial: We Will Remember Them

$65.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
The number of aircrew of Bomber Command who lost their lives during the Second World War was 55,573, yet no campaign medal was awarded and their bravery and sacrifice went...
United States Coastguard in World War II

United States Coastguard in World War II

$132.00 AUD$60.00 AUD
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...
Inside the SAS

Inside the SAS

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The Special Air Service is Britain's elite force, known throughout the world for its effectiveness both in war and as an anti-terrorist unit. This book traces the origins of the...
A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

$55.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead'...
The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and

The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and

$59.95 AUD$25.00 AUD
The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert...
The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and

The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and

$59.95 AUD$45.00 AUD
The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert...
Britain's Secret War

Britain's Secret War

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Britain's Secret War tells the astonishing story of how Britain's spies, boffins and special operations teams helped to win the Second World War. The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers...
The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for

The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for

$44.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
'My mother thought I was working for the Ministry of Ag. and Fish.' So begins Noreen Riols' compelling memoir of her time as a member of Churchill's 'secret army', the...
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War 1941-45

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War 1941-45

$44.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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...
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS

SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS

$26.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk , Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history...
Diary of a Young Girl

Diary of a Young Girl

$12.00 AUD
For her thirteenth birthday Anne Frank received a diary as a present from her father. She kept it from 12 June 1942 to 1 August 1944. In this diary, Anne...
A Child at Arms

A Child at Arms

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A narrative of a young officer's fears and triumphs, of the discomforts and tragedies attendant on battle, the terrors and confusion in the midst of action against a fanatically tenacious...
Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire

Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire

$100.00 AUD
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,...