Military History (84)

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Author: David Mason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'An unpretentious Aussie's experiences in one of the most ramshackle and soul-destroying military organisations on Earth.' COURIER-MAIL A real-life...

Author: Michael Broers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Masterly.' - Daily Mail 'Stunning.' - History Today 'Magnificent.' - Literary Review Napoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage...

Author: Mary Roach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize `The most entertaining writer in science' -...

Author: John Lewis-Stempel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writing The natural history of the Western Front...

Author: The First Division Museum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 Originally published on the ten-year anniversary of the end of World War I, "Happy Days!" features a collection of...

Author: Mark Felton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp...

Author: William A. Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:210 William Fletcher joined the Confederate Army in 1861. He served with the Army of Northern Virginia's elite Texas Brigade...

Author: Steve Heaney, MC Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force...

Author: Greg Raffin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 284 On 21 September 1918, with retreating German forces on their last legs, the 1st Battalion of the AIF was...

Author: Emma Sky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize. As a Brit, a woman and a liberal, Emma Sky's presence and position in...

Author: Jim Baggott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 An account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. This book draws on declassified material, such as...

Author: Hugh Gusterson (George Mason University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 216 Drone warfare described from the perspectives of drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, international...

Author: Powell, Colin L Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He...

Author: Bouko de Groot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 The tiny new state of the United Provinces of the Netherlands won its independence from the mighty Spanish...

Author: Ian Sumner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 This title explores the recruitment, training, and combat experiences of the famous ANZAC infantry in the opening years of...

Author: David Coombes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In April-May 1917 the sleepy hamlet of Bullecourt in northern France became the focus of two battles involving Australian and British...

Author: Jimmy Burns Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In the 1930s Tom Burns was a rising star of British publishing, whose friends and authors included G. K. Chesterton, Evelyn...

Author: David Campbell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 Israel seized the strategically critical Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War in an audacious and...

Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war....