Australian Drilling Manual by Australian Drilling Industry Training Committee
$200.00 AUD
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Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles--the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg--that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a ...Show more
The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars by Patrick Hennessey
$20.00 AUD
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For the first time in a generation British soldiers are once again fighting at close quarters, coming under sustained and vicious firepower, losing friends in some of the most violent fighting the modern army has endured. Yet the same soldiers also serve on international peacekeeping missions, or counte ...Show more
Red One : A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line by Kevin Ivison
$25.00 AUD
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Tales from the Dark Continent : Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century by Charles Allen (ed)
$20.00 AUD
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Based on recorded interviews with 50 British men and women covering three generations of colonial rule in Africa, the stories and recollections in this book evoke the world of traders, missionaries, soldiers, policemen and district officers.
Green Leader - Operation Gatling, the Rhodesian Military's Response to the Viscount Tragedy by Ian Pringle
$40.00 AUD
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On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small children, survived the crash only for most of them to be ...Show more
Hitler & Churchill : Secrets of Leasdership by Andrew Roberts
$40.00 AUD
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From the four part BBC2 series comes this title by Andrew Roberts exploring the secrets of leadership of two of the four men who comprise the TV series - key men of 20th century history. Here he examines the leadership qualities of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.
Landing on the Edge of Eternity - Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach by Robert Kershaw
$25.00 AUD
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Before World War II, Normandy's Plage d'Or coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations. Early in 1944, German commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took one look at the gentle, sloping sands and announced "They will come here " He was referring to "Omaha Beach"--the prime Americ ...Show more
Douglas Haig, 1861-1928 by Gerard J. De Groot
$35.00 AUD
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For seventy years Douglas Haig had been portrayed on the one hand as the 'Butcher of the Somme' - inept, insensitive and archaic; and on the other as the 'Saviour of Britain' - noble, unselfish and heroic. This polarised, strident and ultimately inconclusive argument had resulted in Haig becoming detach ...Show more
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F. Dixon
$45.00 AUD
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The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are these simple accidents--as the "bloody fool" theory has it--or are they inevitable? The psychologist Norman ...Show more
TRY NOTHING TWICE : THE STORY OF TWO DOZEN JOBS - SIGNED by FRANK CLUNE
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