Spirit of Gallipoli by Patrick Lindsay
$19.99 AUD
Category: War
Patrick writes for those who would never wade through a full-fledged history book but who want to understand the remarkable spirit that emerged from a doomed campaign. He digs deep into the bedrock of the Australian character and examines the spirit that sets Australians apart and enables them to so oft ...Show more
The Lost Diggers by Ross Coulthart
$79.99 AUD
Category: War
During the First World War, thousands of Aussie diggers and other Allied troops passed through the French town of Vignacourt, two hours north of Paris. Many had their photographs taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier as souvenirs while they enjoyed a brief respite from the carnage of the Western Front ...Show more
Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles by Joe Maxwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: War
Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles is the rollicking eyewitness account of the role of 18th Battalion AIF in the First World War by one of its most decorated soldiers, the irrepressible Joe Maxwell. Maxwell served at Gallipoli before being transferred to the Western Front. In just twelve months during 1917- ...Show more
Bill the Bastard: The story of Australia's greatest war horse by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine.
The Lost Battlefield of Kokoda by Brian Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
Brian Freeman knows the Kokoda Trail better than almost any other living Australian. The former Specialist Forces soldier has set records running the length of it and led dozens of treks along it for his adventure travel company. But in more than a decade of involvement with the trail, even he never sus ...Show more
The Price of Valour The Triumph and Tragedy of a Gallipoli Hero, Hugo Throssell by John Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
From the bestselling author of Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You and Gallipoli Sniper.When Hugo Throssell joined the 10th Light Horse Regiment in 1914, soon after the outbreak of the First World War, he was emblematic of the young Australian nation at that time: full of youth, vigour, courage and idealism. ...Show more
The Tiger Man of Vietnam by Frank Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: War | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The Vietnamese hill tribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen. In 1963, the 28-year-old Barry was sent to Vietnam as part of the 30-man Australian Training Team, two years before the first official Australian troops ar ...Show more
The Changi Brownlow by Roland Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: War | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser.
After Singapore falls to the Japanese early in 1942, 70 000 prisoners including 15 000 Australians, are held as POWs at the notorious Changi prison, Singapore. To amuse themselves and fellow inmates, a group of sportsmen led by the indefatigable and popular Chicken Smallhorn, created an Australian Footb ...Show more
Shanghai Fury by Peter Thompson
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Shanghai is a city defined by war. The city and its armed struggles were central to the relationship between China and Australia from the fall of the Manchus in 1912 to the Communist victory in 1949. Yet with the notable exception of George 'Chinese' Morrison, the Australian contribution has been largel ...Show more
Well Done Those Men: Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran (Gift Edition) by Barry Heard
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
In this intensely personal account, Barry Heard draws on his own experiences as a young conscript, along with those of his comrades to look back at life before, during, and after the Vietnam War. The result is a sympathetic vision of a group of young men who were sent off to war completely unprepared fo ...Show more
Desert Boys: Australians at War from Beersheba to Tobruk and El Alamein by Peter Rees
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
About 1,300 Australians died in the desert campaigns of World War I, while another 3,500 died in North Africa and the Middle East during World War II. Thousands more carried the wounds of war for the rest of their lives. Countless families were left behind to mourn the dead and comfort the injured. A ri ...Show more
The Story of Billy Young by Anthony Hill
$32.99 AUD
Category: War | Reading Level: 15+ years
Young Bill is the true story of the suffering - and survival - of an underage prisoner-of-war during World War II. Bill Young, who is still alive, enlised in the army in July 1941 aged only 15, though he said he was 19. He went to Singapore, was captured at the fall, and spent the rest of his teenage ye ...Show more