The First World War : Volume 1 - To Arms by Hew Strachan
$70.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military events. More recent approaches have embraced cultu ...Show more
World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the wa ...Show more
The Last Secret Agent: The Untold Story of My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Enemy Lines by Pippa Latour, Jude Dobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY HISTORY
The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations ...Show more
Sahib : The British Soldier in India by Richard Holmes
$55.00 AUD
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From the bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown.
Admirals: The Naval Commanders Who Made Britain Great by Andrew D. Lambert
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From the man described by Amanda Foreman as 'one of the most eminent naval historians of our age' comes the story of how this country's maritime power helped Britain gain unparalleled dominance of the world's economy. Told through the lives of ten of our most remarkable admirals, Andrew Lambert's book s ...Show more
Decisive Battles of World War II : The German View by Hans-Adolf Jacobsen and Jurgen Rohwer
$75.00 AUD
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The Boer War by Denis Judd; Keith Surridge
$60.00 AUD
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The Boer War was an epic both of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism. It had an extraordinary cast of characters - not only leading men like Churchill, Kruger, Rhodes and Kitchener, but minor characters from Conan Doyle and Kipling to Gandhi, Chief Dinizulu and Hector Fighting Mac MacDonald. The ...Show more
The Book of War - 25 Centuries of Great War Writing by John Keegan
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Acclaimed military historian John Keegan's anthology of war writing from 25 centuries of battle In The Book of War, John Keegan marshals a formidable host of war writings to chronicle the evolution of Western warfare through the voice of the most eloquent participants--from Thucydides' classic account o ...Show more
Forgotten Voices of the Somme by Joshua Levine
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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
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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
$20.00 AUD
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