Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding by KEN PETER AND SPILLMAN DOWDING
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research to reveal, for the first time, his coming of age as a leader in escape and evasion during World War II. Dowdi ...Show more
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban by Andy McNab
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The story of the SAS and Navy SEALs' attempts to save a group of NGO workers held hostage by the Taliban in 2012 in Northern Afghanistan. Andy McNab draws on classified sources and his own personal insight into the inner-workings of the special forces to tell the story of the rescue mission. The thrilli ...Show more
Operation Neptune: The Prelude to D-Day by DAVID WRAGG
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
One of the most ambitious amphibious operations to ever take place, the story of Operation Neptune is the story of D-Day at seaLong-awaited, the Normandy landings were the largest amphibious operation in history. Success was achieved by the advent of specialized landing craft, first seen in the landings ...Show more
Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in World War Two: An Authorized History by Mark Urban
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
In this gripping, authorised account, bestselling historian Mark Urban tells the story of the wartime creation and development of Britain's elite airborne infantry - who ranged from circus performers to solicitors, policemen to gravediggers, Christians and Jews to communists. Through the fates of six me ...Show more
Secret Spitfires - Britain's Hidden Civilian Army by Karl Howman; Ethem Cetintas; Gavin Clarke
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
September 1940: In the midst of the Second World War, the Luftwaffe unleashed a series of devastating raids on Southampton, all but destroying its spitfire factories. But production didn't stop. Instead, manufacturing of this iconic fighter moved underground, to secret locations staffed by women, childr ...Show more
Tales of Lancasters and Other AircraftDangerous Skies in the Second World War by George Culling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Of every 100 operational airmen in World War Two, 9 were killed flying in England and 3 severely injured in crashes, so non-operational casualties were significant in numbers, over 15,000. Operational casualties were of course chillingly grim - over 56,000 airmen died in the Second World War, over half ...Show more
Softly Softly: Capturing Hitler's Spies by Tony Matthews
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
They were doomed from the very beginning. During the Second World War, it didn't take long for the British Secret Services to discover that Nazi Germany's cohorts of espionage agents - influenced either by the illusionary light of profit or idealism, or the darkness of blackmail and reprisals - were l ...Show more
Ultimate Spitfires by Peter Caygill
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Spitfire is probably Britain's best loved and admired airplane. It is also revered around the world. This book looks at the later marques that were modified for various special tasks and differed to a large degree from Supermarine's first early versions that saw action in the early days of World War ...Show more
Secret Heroes of World War II: Spies, scientists and other heroes by Eric Chaline
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
Look behind the curtain and meet the engineers, resistance fighters, spies, physicists and more who committed incredible acts of heroism amidst the chaos and danger of WWII. From the priest who hid thousands of POWs and Jews in the Vatican, to the Antipodean servicewoman who led a formidable Resistance ...Show more
C-130 Hercules: Lockheed's Military Air Transport and Its Variants by DAVID DOYLE
$42.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules has been in continuous production for over six decades, longer than any other military aircraft in the world, and no end of production is yet in sight. The Hercules has been a part of US combat operations since Vietnam, and the airframe, which began life as a simple transport ...Show more