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Vida: A woman for our time
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Compassion and Courage: Australian Doctors and Dentists in the Great War
$25.00 AUD
Author: Healy JaquelineBinding: SoftbackPublished: Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne, 2015Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the experiences of Australian medical professionals during World War...
GALLIPOLI
$15.00 AUD
Author: Jack BennettBinding: HardbackPublished: Times House Publishing, 1984Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGALLIPOLI by Jack Bennett explores the historical significance and the events surrounding the Gallipoli...
The Kia Ora Coo-ee: The Magazine for the Anzacs in the Middle East 1918
$15.00 AUD
Author: Kent, David (introduction)Binding: SoftbackPublished: Cornstalk Pub. Co., 1981Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book is an insightful collection of articles and illustrations from 'The Kia Ora...
Sailor in the Air - The Memoirs of Vice Admiral Richard Bell Davies
$15.00 AUD
Author: Davies, Vice Admiral Richard BellBinding: HardbackPublished: Peter Davies, 1967, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis memoir recounts the thrilling career of Vice Admiral...
Sir John Monash
$20.00 AUD
Author: Smithers, A. J. (Alan Jack)Binding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1973, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive biography of Sir John Monash,...
Foch Speaks
$25.00 AUD
Author: Charles BugnetBinding: HardbackPublished: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, 1929, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsFoch Speaks is a translation by Russell Green of the...
World's Great Bombers
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Author: Chris ChantBinding: HardbackPublished: Silverdale, 2005Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers a thorough exploration of the world's most significant bombers, detailing their design, development, and...
The Changing of the Guard. Graphic Incidents of Two Wars Reproduced from Official and Other Photographs.
$120.00 AUD
Author: Australian War MemorialBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, 1941, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a visual account of two wars through...
Australian Chivalry. Reproductions in colour and duo-tone of official war paintings.
$250.00 AUD
Author: J.L. TreloarBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, 1933Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book features photographic reproductions in colour and duo-tone of official war paintings,...
Defiance!: Withstanding the Kaiserschalcht
This fascinating volume charts the progress of the Allied breakout of Normandy through German eyes. Beginning with Operation COBRA and ending with the offensive which led to the liberation of...
Walking into Hell 1st July 1916
The 1st July 1916 was the blackest day in the history of the British Army when 60,000 unsuspecting men of the British 4th Army advanced into the teeth of a...
Star Shell Reflections 1916
The Great War Diaries of Jim Maultsaid As the centenary of the Great War approaches, this book offers a unique perspective told in the words and illustrations of someone who...
Spirits of the Somme: Visions of War
The 1st of July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. 60,000 men became casualties on...
The Battle That Won the War - Bellenglise: Breaching the Hindenburg
It is no exaggeration to claim that 46th North Midland Division s action on 29 September 1918 was the hammer blow that shattered the will of the German High Command....
Burgoyne Diaries
These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. The author's...
Defiance!: Withstanding the Kaiserschalcht
This fascinating volume charts the progress of the Allied breakout of Normandy through German eyes. Beginning with Operation COBRA and ending with the offensive which led to the liberation of...
The Lost History of 1914: How the Great War Was Not Inevitable
In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the First World War and its causes, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. 'Most books set...
Johnny: The Legend and Tragedy of General Sir Ian Hamilton
The Gallipoli campaign was launched in April 1915 in an effort to knock Turkey out of the war but the force that was deployed was too small to achieve its...
Passchendaele 1917: The Tommies' Experience of the Third Battle of
The Battle of Passchendaele was the most gruesome yet fought during the First World War. The British offensive, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was launched on the...
VCs of the First World War: Gallipoli
The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First World War. What had initially been a...
A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever
Between April 22 and May 30, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but it had until then been fought on the battlefield...
Churchill and Sea Power
Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the...
Australia's Lost Heroes: Anzacs in the Russian Civil War 1919
This extraordinary book is both an engaging military history and an enthralling mystery. Australia's Lost Heroes tells the astonishing little-known story of the Australian soldiers who fought the Red Army...
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack
In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and...
Air Wars 1920-1939: The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics
Spain (1936-9), China (1937 onwards), Mongolia (1939), Finland (1939-40) and France (1939-40) were a testing ground for a new approach to air tactics with western democracies and totalitarian states analyzing...
The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on...
Aisne 1914: The Dawn of Trench Warfare
The Battle of the Aisne fought in September 1914 introduced a new and savage mode of warfare to the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, their French allies and to...
Great War Fighter Aces 1914 - 1916
Here, Norman Franks tells the story, in words and images, of the emergence of some of the greatest fighter aces to see action during the first half of the First...
The British Sailor of the First World War
How the Royal Navy saw off the U-boat challenge in the Great War, and the daily lives of its sailors.In 1914 Great Britain's navy was the largest and most powerful...
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina was founded in 1997 by Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli and named for Professor Bruccoli's father, who...
Man Who Ran London During the Great War
In 1912 Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd was appointed to the supreme position reserved for Guardsmen, the command of the London Districts. The war saw an extension of his responsibilities...
The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and
Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War...
The Badges of Kitchener's Army
Badges of Kitchener's Army is based on thirty years research in museums, archives and collections. It is an exhaustive study of the development of the battalion, brigade and divisional signs...
Pioneers of Armour in the Great War
AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS 'Pioneers of Armour in the Great War' tells the story of the only Australian mechanised units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the...
Germany in the Great War - The Opening Year: Mobilisation, the Advance
Germany in the Great War Illustrated - Mobilisation and the Western Advance is the first volume of a projected six-part series that details, graphically, the Central Powers - Germany and...
Pioneers of Armour in the Great War
AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS 'Pioneers of Armour in the Great War' tells the story of the only Australian mechanised units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the...
Great Scientists Wage the Great War
Six men made major scientific breakthroughs during the First World War and in doing so altered its course. Lawrence Bragg pinpointed the position of enemy artillery pieces with sound ranging,...
Nation in Arms: The British Army in the First World War
The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly...
Hero on the Western Front: Discovering Sergeant York's WWI Battlefield
They knew it was the end. Weakened by four years of war, the reality had finally dawned on the Germans that their armies could never stop the combined might of...
By Sword and Fire: Cruelty And Atrocity In Medieval Warfare
Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would consider war crimes. Lands laid waste, civilians slaughtered,...
Battle of Jutland: History's Greatest Sea Battle Told Through
Since the days of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy had been the acknowledged as the most powerful maritime force on the planet. Britain could boast more warships, and...
Walking the Western Front: The Somme in Pictures
The Walking the Western Front series started in 2012 with the release of two films on the Ypres Salient. Directed by acclaimed film maker Ed Skelding with guest historian Nigel...
Britain and the Widening War, 1915-1916
In a series of concise, thought-provoking chapters the authors summarize and make accessible the latest scholarship on the middle years of the Great War 1915 and 1916 and cover fundamental...
Southern Thunder: The Royal Navy and the Scandinavian Trade in World
During World War One the Scandinavian countries played a dangerous and sometimes questionable game; they proclaimed their neutrality but at the same time pitched the two warring sides against one...
Battles of French Flanders
The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of...
The Two Wars of Jimmy D'Aubin
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Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still...