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A Very Different War: RAAF Operations in the Korean War (#8 Australian Air Campaigns) by Owen Zupp
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Australian Air Campaign Ser.
The Korean War lies between the enormity of the Second World War and the controversy of Vietnam. Although it often slips through the cracks of history, it represented a global shift as two opposing ideologies clashed and the Cold War heated up. The fledgling United Nations was called to act, and Austral ...Show more
Armageddon and OKRA - Australia's Air Operations in the Middle East a Century Apart by Lewis Frederickson
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Australian Air Campaign Ser.
The dispatch of an Ottoman Army by Australian-led Imperial air power in the Wadi Fara on 21 September 1918 occurred just five years after the advent of military aviation in Australia. In 1914, the fledgling Australian air service operated the flimsy Bristol Boxkite; four years later it was flying the fa ...Show more
Battle of Britain 1940: The Luftwaffe's 'Eagle Attack' by Dildy Doug
$27.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
The Battle of Britain was one of the most iconic campaigns of World War II, where the "Few" of the Royal Air Force took on the might of the German Luftwaffe. At stake was not just air superiority over the British Isles--a German victory would enable Hitler's plan to invade and conquer the last Allied co ...Show more
Battle of Lys - April 1918 by Colin Mattey
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
In the wave of devastating German offensives launched in the spring of 1918, it is Operation Michael that has captured most attention, characterised by astonishing advances and their potentially shattering impact on the British Expeditionary Force's (BEF) Third and Fifth armies. While this offensive eve ...Show more
Battle of Mont St Quentin Peronne 1918 by Michele Bomford
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 explores the relationship between myth and history and the significance of the Anzac legend. It analyses the forces that drove the diggers forward even when they had reached the limits of their endurance. The Battle of Mont St Quentin-P?ronne represents ...Show more
Battle over the Atlantic: RAAF in Coastal Command 1939-45 (#3 Australian Air Campaigns) by John Quaife
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Australian Air Campaign Series
At the outbreak of World War II, somewhat by accident -- and just as the first shots of the war were fired -- young Australian airmen from the Royal Australian Air Force were engaged in operations that would become known collectively as the Battle of the Atlantic. Arguably lesser-known than air campaign ...Show more
Battles Before : Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership after the Vietnam War by David Connery
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Much of Australia's military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? "The Battles Before" examines the role of senior leaders in preparing an army for war -- fighting bureaucratic bat ...Show more
Battles of Bullecourt 1917 by DAVID COOMBES
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
In April-May 1917 the sleepy hamlet of Bullecourt in northern France became the focus of two battles involving Australian and British troops. Given the unique place in this nation's military history that both battles occupy, surprisingly little has been written on the AIF's achievements at Bullecourt. T ...Show more
"Big Week" 1944: Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe by Douglas C. Dildy
$29.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one foresaw the devastation that German radar-directed inter ...Show more
Cherbourg 1944 - The First Allied Victory in Normandy by Steven J. Zaloga; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Steven Zaloga offers up a rigorous and absorbing study of the first major Allied operation in Normandy after the D-Day landings - the capture of Cherbourg. Blending expert analysis, specially commissioned artwork and illustrative maps, this book tells the story of the bitter struggle to capture this vit ...Show more
Coronel and Falklands 1914 - Duel in the South Atlantic by Michael McNally; Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Upon the outbreak of war, the British Royal Navy was deployed globally, whilst the Imperial German Navy was concentrated in two areas - Home Waters and Tsingtao, the home port of the crack East Asia Cruiser Squadron which, under the command of Admiral von Spee contained some of Germany's most modern cru ...Show more
Dunkirk 1940 - Operation Dynamo by Douglas C. Dildy; Howard Gerrard (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
During the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940, German forces successfully cut off several units of British, French and Canadian troops from supporting forces and supplies. Nearly 350,000 Allied troops were left stranded on the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, in France, amounting to what Winston Churchill called t ...Show more