Forgotten Voices of the Somme by Joshua Levine
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
DoP - November 2008 With over a million casualties, the Somme was the most brutal battle of the First World War. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness, conjuring up images of muddy trenches and young lives tragically wasted. Its first day, July ...Show more
Eclipse by Alan Moorehead
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Brilliant eyewitness account by the great Australian war correspondent of the Allied defeat of Hitler.
Intelligence in War - Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by John Keegan
$55.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful ...Show more
Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Wordsworth Military Library | Reading Level: very good
In 1915 the Gallipoli campaign was designed to break the deadlock in the muddy trenches of the Western Front by forcing the Dardenelles, capturing Constantinople, knocking Turkey out of the war and bringing supplies and arms to the Russians for their immense German Front. It was a costly failure. Using ...Show more
Spitfire : Portrait of a Legend by Leo McKinstry
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In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future of ...Show more
Soldiers - An Illustrated History of Men in Battle by John Keegan; Richard Holmes
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Command - How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War by Al Murray
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
'My bookshelves were groaning with WW2 books, Hitler's baleful eyes staring out at me from covers and spines for any new visitor (or passing burglar) to wonder if I might be a fan or at least mildly obsessed.' - Al Murray 'Al Murray's new book proves, if anyone still feels the need to question it, that ...Show more
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 by John C. McManus
$60.00 AUD
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From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War "Brilliant [and] riveting... a truly great book."--Gen. David Petraeus - "Triumphant [and] compelling."--Richard Frank - "McManus is one of the best--if not ...Show more
Carrier - A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier by Tom Clancy
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Tom Clancy's Military Referenc Ser.
They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a me ...Show more
Gettysburg - The Last Invasion by Allen C. Guelzo
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Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History An Economist Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers ...Show more
Ends of War - The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney
$55.00 AUD
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The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most ...Show more