August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty
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Category: Military
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United Stat ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
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49.99 (20% off)
Category: Military
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Beaten Down by Blood - ANZAC Centenary Commemorative Release: The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 by Michele Bomford
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19.99 (50% off)
Category: Military
Beaten Down by Blood: The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 charts an extraordinary journey from the trenches facing Mont St Quentin on 31 August 1918 through the frenetic phases of the battle until the final objectives are taken on 5 September. This is the story, often told in the words of the men ...Show more
Crumps and Camouflets - ANZAC Centenary Commemorative Release: Australian Tunnelling Companies on the Western Front by Damien Finlayson
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Category: Military
Below the shattered ground that separated the British and German infantry on the Western Front in World War I, an unseen and largely unknown war was raging, fought by miners, tunnellers as they were known. They knew at any moment their lives could be extinguished without warning by hundreds of tonnes of ...Show more
Battle Scarred - ANZAC Centenary Commemorative Release: The 47th Battalion in the First World War by Craig Deayton
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Category: Military
One of the shortest lived and most battle hardened of the 1st Australian Imperial Forces battalions, the 47th was formed in Egypt in 1916 and disbanded two years later having suffered one of the highest casualty rates of any Australian unit. Their story is remarkable for many reasons. Dogged by command ...Show more
Facing The Mountain by Daniel James Brown
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Category: Military
On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the surprise attack was a call to arms - but for the soldier sons of Japanese-American immigrant parents, it brought prejudice and scrutiny over where their loyalties lay.In Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown tells the ...Show more
The Platoon Commander by John O Halloran, Ric Teague
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Category: Military
John O'Halloran was a country boy from Tamworth, NSW, who was called up for national service not long after the start of the Vietnam War. As a tough and determined 21-year-old, he guided 6 RAR's B Company 5 Platoon through some of the biggest conflicts of the war, including Operation Hobart and the Batt ...Show more
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on the Thai-Burma Railroad by Charles Kappe
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29.99 (66% off)
Category: Military
They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and American troops lifted when they were told that they would be transferred to another healthier location where conditions would be more benign and food far more abundant. A total of 7,000 men, ap ...Show more
World Beneath Their Feet - The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth
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Category: Military
Maralinga: The Chilling Expose of Our Secret Nuclear Shame and Betrayal of Our Troops and Country by Frank Walker
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Category: Military
'Utterly gripping. It reads like a thriller.' JON FAINE This edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication. Investigative journalist Frank Walker's MARALINGA is a must-read true story of the abuse of our servic ...Show more
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov
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Category: Military
This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a 21st-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey B ...Show more
Tribe: On Belonging and Homecoming by Sebastian Junger
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Category: Military
From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to society. Using ...Show more