Command - How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War by Al Murray
$30.00 AUD
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
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
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
$25.00 AUD
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
$55.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
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
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
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
Defeat and Division: France at War, 1939-1942 by Douglas Porch
$50.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Armies of the Second World War Ser.
Defeat and Division launches a definitive new account of France in the Second World War. In this first volume, Douglas Porch dissects France's 1940 collapse, the dynamics of occupation, and the rise of Charles de Gaulle's Free France crusade, culminating in the November 1942 Allied invasion of French No ...Show more
SAS : A Pictorial History of the Australian Special Air Service 1957-1997 by M. J. Malone (ed)
$235.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
The Embarrassing Australian : The Story of an Aboriginal Warrior by Harry Gordon
$50.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
Let the Bastards Come: The Battle for Kapyong Korea, 23 – 25 April 1951 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY HISTORY
Anzac Day 2024 represents the 73rd anniversary of the critical battle of Kapyong (23 to 25 April 1951) This book for the first time tells the full story of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American units involved. Fewer than 1,000 Australian and Canadian infantrymen, supported by New Zealand ar ...Show more
While Cannons Roared - The Civil War Behind the Lines by John M. Taylor
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
A collection of articles which concentrates on the events that occurred away from the battlefield during the American Civil War. Articles range from an account of how Ulysses S. Grant was held personally responsible for years for a truckload of stolen money, to the story of how Abraham Lincoln hired a s ...Show more
The Taste of War : World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions of Germany and Japan - ambitions whic ...Show more