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The Birth Of The Nazis by Jones, Nigel H.
$15.00 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923) of civil war, assassination, plots, putsches and murderous mayhem to Germany. The savage world of the tr ...Show more
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination by Richard J. Evans
$39.99 AUD
Category: World War 2
The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' age The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything is the result ...Show more
Snipers at War by John Walter
$20.00 AUD
Category: World War 2
Definitive history written by a leading firearms expert, Examines the vital importance of field-skills - hunting, tracking, patient observation - to the sniper's craft, Includes newly commissioned research with a unique statistical-assessment system to analyse the accuracy of individual rifles, Highligh ...Show more
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
$25.00 AUD
Category: World War 2
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf Hoss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children. In the aftermath of the Second World War, th ...Show more
Mutiny on the Western Front by Greg Raffin
$15.00 AUD
Category: World War 1
On 21 September 1918, with retreating German forces on their last legs, the 1st Battalion of the AIF was ordered to return to the front just as they were being relieved and preparing for a well-earnt rest. It wasn’t just the Germans who were on their last legs; the Australians were depleted and exhauste ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$39.95 AUD
Category: World War 2 | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
The Battle for Passchendaele by Ian Finlayson
$19.99 AUD
Category: World War 1 | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The Battle for Passchendaele on 12 October 1917 was one of the epic struggles of the First World War. British Field Marshal Douglas Haig allocated II ANZAC Corps to capture Passchendaele village, with Major General Monash's 3rd Australian Division and the New Zealand Division leading the attack. For bo ...Show more
When Freedom Calls: Great Escapes of the Second World War by Robert Jackson
$15.00 AUD
Category: World War 2 | Reading Level: very good
These are tales of hope and triumph, of sorrow and heartbreak. They are stories of desperation and they are stories of brilliance. When Freedom Calls is a well-researched and detailed collection of some of the most daring escape plans in history.
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914 by Malcolm Brown
$15.00 AUD
Category: World War 1
"The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and seas of flame leaping up hundreds of feet, crowned by black smoke that covered the entire heaven. It lit up houses wrecked by shells, dead horses, demolished railway stations, engines that had been taken up with their lines and signals, an ...Show more
Star-Spangled Spitfires by Tony Holmes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Through the medium of period photography, Star-Spangled Spitfires chronicles the combat operations of the USAAF units equipped with the iconic Supermarine fighter whilst employed in both the European and Mediterranean theaters of war, from the summer of 1942 right up to the end of the conflict. Only a h ...Show more
Fighter Aces : Knights of the Sky by Rosie John; Serdiville Sadler
$19.99 AUD
Category: World War 1 | Series: Casemate Short History
Kampong Australia by Mathew Radcliffe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military History
The Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth was Australia's largest and most enduring overseas military garrison in post-war Southeast Asia.Home to the majority of Australian airpower for over three decades, Butterworth was also home to a vibrant Australian community. From 1955 until 1988, spanni ...Show more