Walking with the Anzacs: An updated guide to Australian battlefields of the Western Front by Mat McLachlan
$34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
Now fully revised for 2023, this is the essential and comprehensive guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front for anyone who wants to walk in the footsteps of the Anzacs. From one of Australia's leading battlefield historians, Mat McLachlan, Walking with the Anzacs covers the fourteen mo ...Show more
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train bef ...Show more
Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
From a dazzling young palaeontologist and prodigiously talented writer comes the Earth as we've never seen it before. What would it be like to experience the ancient landscapes of the past as we experience the reality of nature today? To actually visit the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among t ...Show more
The Commando: The life and death of Cameron Baird, VC, MG by Ben Mckelvey
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
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 under heavy fire. In the prolonged firefight, Cameron was mortally wounded. In 2014, Cameron's bravery and courage under ...Show more
Monash's Masterpiece: The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WWI. A largely Australian force, commanded by the brilliant Sir John Monash, fought what has been described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks, artillery and planes oper ...Show more
Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret ...Show more
Counter Attack Villers-Bretonneux April 1918 (#27 Australian Army Campaigns) by EDGAR, PETER
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The brutal 1914 German invasion of Belgium and France had gained a large portion of both countries. Over three-and-a-half punishing years the Allies were slowly pushing the Germans back but in March 1918, Germany launched a massive spring offensive. Resting in the Ypres sector after the horrors of the P ...Show more
Captain Cook by Alistair MacLean
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean's absorbing story of one of Britain's great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the age of fifty-one. When James Cook was hacked to death by H ...Show more
The Art of War by Anthony Tucker-Jones Tzu Sun
$29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
A new illustrated edition of Sun Tzu's classic ancient Chinese meditation on military strategy and human psychology, with a new commentary that highlight its continued relevance for modern readers. Poetic and immensely readable, The Art of War was written 2,500 years ago and the military manual is stil ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
$27.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offer ...Show more
Cleopatra: The Queen who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by Alberto Angela
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
One of Italy's most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war. Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is one of the most famous figures in hist ...Show more
Greek Myths: A New Retelling, with drawings by Chris Ofili by Charlotte Higgins
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
A major new retelling of the Greek myths for a new generation, with original drawings by world-renowned artist Chris Ofili.Charlotte Higgins' spellbinding new collection will include all the most famous Greek myths, as well as many less well-known but equally intriguing ones. Here are stories of the cre ...Show more