TO WAR WITHOUT A GUN by LESLIE LE SOUEF

$45.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

The Royal Air Force - An Illustrated History by M. J. Armitage

$15.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

With this illustrated history, Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Armitage provides an authentic record of the development of the Royal Air Force.

The Illustrated Directory of Fighting Aircraft of World War II by Bill Gunston

$15.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Illustrated directory series

The book is organised into two sections, Allied Fighters and Fighters of the Axis Powers. The aircraft are arranged alphabetically by manufacturers' names within national groups.

Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force by Peter Stanley

$25.00 AUD

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Australia's long-standing love affair with the Diggers has blinded us to the dark side of the Anzac legend. Bad Characters will tell the story of the Australian soldiers in the Great War who were not heroes. The term 'bad characters' was used by the army to refer to those who caused unrest or were disob edient: their crimes ranged from avoiding battle, absenteeism, desertion, disobedience and self-inflicting wounds and contracting venereal disease, to the more extreme charges of murder and mutiny. Bad Characters travels from the outbreak of the war through the agonising course of the conflict to its end and beyond, to the memory of the larrikin Digger that has survived in folklore and anecdote to this day. The AIF's first and greatest historian, Charles Bean, thought that the finest tribute we could pay to the men that he knew was to tell their story straight. Based on extensive research, Peter Stanley's honest, unflinching, humane and respectful book recounts dramatic, and often tragic, stories of the AIF's dark side, many for the first time, and in doing blends 'true crime' with 'war history'. More importantly, it fosters a truer understanding of who these men were, what they did in the war, and what this terrible war did to them. ...Show more

H.M.A.S SYDNEY : LOSS AND CONTROVERSY by TOM FRAME

$20.00 AUD

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ARTHUR'S WAR - SIGNED by ARTHUR BANCROFT WITH JOHN HARMAN

$50.00 AUD

Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE

The General's War: The inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf by Michael Gordon

$15.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor provide a definitive, behind-the-scenes account and anaylsis of the planning and execution of the Gulf War. While one war was being waged against Iraq, another was being fought among the generals themselves. "The Generals' War" offers unvarnished portrait s of the top military commanders, challenges the performances of Powell, Schwarzkopf, and their generals, and provides disturbing information about the power struggles within the American high command. Using previously undisclosed military documents, "The Generals' War" goes beyond what happened to explain why and how, exploding myths that have crept into other accounts of the war. ...Show more

Monte Cassino by David Hapgood; David Richardson

$20.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

FLAK by MICHAEL VEITCH

$15.00 AUD

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Commandos by JOHN PARKER

$10.00 AUD

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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer

$20.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man's haunting journey. Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist an d iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan. Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively manoeuvered to keep this information from Tillman's wife, other family members, and the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman's name to promote his administration's foreign policy. Long after Tillman's nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had "probably" been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible. In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman's journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death. Before he enlisted in the army, Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized, overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding. With his shoulder-length hair, outspoken views, and boundless intellectual curiosity, Tillman was considered a maverick. America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut. Sent first to Iraq - a war he would openly declare was "illegal as hell" - and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by complicated, emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, patriotism, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers. Krakauer chronicles Tillman's riveting, tragic odyssey in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer's storytelling, Where Men Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war. ...Show more

Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur

$15.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Bluejacket Bks.

Written in his own hand, and finished only weeks before his death, Reminiscences by General Douglas MacArthur spans more than half a century of modern history. These pages show a man whose unique vantage point at the center of the stage enabled him to illuminate major controversies of our time, and whos e views and ideas - never before published in full - are now bound to bring new and unexpected reappraisals to the conflicts in which he himself was the central figure. Douglas MacArthur served under eight presidents. He was honored as few men have been. His genius for command, and his ability to implement that command by strategy, stand as landmarks in military history. No man was ever so outspoken in his commitment to his troops or in his beliefs. A legend in his own lifetime, he was a man who aroused controversy, yet stood above the awe and the conflicts he inspired. Never before has one soldier's life so completely reflected a nation's military history. After graduation from West Point with the highest average ever achieved by a cadet, MacArthur served in Vera Cruz during the Mexican uprisings and then as military attache in the Far East, where he first perceived Japanese aspirations for hegemony the Orient. His courage in the trenches and his leadership of the famous Rainbow Division during the First World War were cited by General Pershing, who seven times awarded MacArthur the Silver Star. ...Show more