Backs to the Wall: A Larrikin on the Western Front by Robert Macklin
35.00 NZD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Military
'In that hour was born in me a fear that lasted throughout the whole winter. It was the dread of dying in the mud, going down in that stinking morass and though dead being conscious throughout the ages. Waves of fear at times threatened to overwhelm me...a little weakness, a little slackening of control ...Show more
Battle Order 204 by Christobel Mattingley
19.99 NZD
22.99 (13% off)
Category: Military
'Bomb doors open!' It was the call that haunted airmen's dreams. This is the story of an ordinary young Australian whose ambition to fly took him halfway round the globe during World War II - and the fateful mission when his plane was hit three times. 'Battle Order 204 is about the quality of courage... ...Show more
Beneath Hill 60: The Australian Miners' Secret Warfare Beneath the Trenches of the Western Front by Will Davies
42.99 NZD
Category: Military
We all remember images from WWI of massive artillery barrages and soldiers crossing shattered landscapes towards certain slaughter. Beneath these killing fields of the Western Front, another war was taking place, a deadly game 30 meters down, played between thousands of troops. These were not infantryme ...Show more
Warrior Training: The Making of an Australian SAS Soldier by Keith Fennell
39.99 NZD
Category: Military
Acclaimed SAS soldier Keith Fennell takes the reader on a journey through his development as a soldier and as a man, revealing the challenges that the warrior must overcome in order to perform at the highest level. At just 21 years of age, Fennell became one of the youngest soldiers to have passed the S ...Show more
The Coast Watchers by Patrick Lindsay
44.00 NZD
Category: Military
After Pearl Harbor, Japan swept unchecked through the Pacific. But a tiny band of brave men stayed behind the enemy lines. Aided by loyal islanders, they watched and they warned. They were the Coast Watchers. They saved countless lives - including that of future US President John F. Kennedy - and they c ...Show more
Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and her Crew by Mike Carlton
69.99 NZD
Category: Military
Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth. Most were young - many were still teenagers - from cities and towns, villages and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous years they ...Show more
Gallipoli - Untold Stories from war correspondant Charles Bean and front-line Anzacs by Jonathan King; Michael Bowers
39.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
"Nothing can alter what happened now: Anzac stood and still stands for reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise, resourcefulness, fidelity, comradeship and endurance that will never admit defeat." - World War I correspondent Charles Bean. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 was a series of deadly batt ...Show more
Pacific Fury by PETER THOMPSON
64.00 NZD
65.00 (1% off)
Category: Military
Pearl Harbour. Kokoda. The fall of Singapore. Curtin's fight with Churchill. The bombing of Darwin. The Battle of Midway. POWs. Kamikaze. Hiroshima. These words alone are enough to convey the terror, courage and drama of the Pacific War, when the balance of power stood on a knife-edge and when the futur ...Show more
Pacific Fury : How Australia and Her Allies Defeated the Japanese by Peter Thompson
47.99 NZD
Category: Military
Presents an account of the Pacific conflict during World War II that places Australian voices and action at the heart of the struggle. Based on exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses and written with all the pace and verve you would expect of a master storyteller, this book vividly brings the people and ...Show more
The Wolf by RICHARD GUILLIATT AND PETER HOHNEN
42.99 NZD
Category: Military
July 1917: the First World War is about to enter its fourth horrendous year and ships are mysteriously disappearing off Australia and New Zealand as a young Australian woman named Mary Cameron sails with her husband and daughter across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney. Less than a thousand ...Show more
Somme Mud : An Australian Teenager in the First World War by Will Davies; Edward P. Lynch
24.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: 12-15
"Beautifully presented young readers edition of the bestselling memoir of a young soldier on the First World War s Western Front.'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of u ...Show more
25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend Was Born by David W. Cameron
35.00 NZD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Military
On the 25th of April 1915 Australian troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in what is now called Anzac Cove. They rushed from the beach up to Plugge's Plateau into Australian military history suffering many casualties on the way. Just after midday troops from New Zealand landed at Gallipoli and toget ...Show more