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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Destination Buchenwald The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand.It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the D-Day landings. For a large group of downed airmen being held in that... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Chickenhawk Robert Mason's devastating bird's eye-view of the Vietnam war in all its horror'I read this as a young pilot about to embark on a career flying military helicopters. It should have put me off for life. Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Chatterton Square "'You don't mean you're going to divorce him?' Miss Spanner said with horror."A sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex web of relationships between two neighbouring families, the Blacketts and the Frasers. Framed by the... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Tree of Heaven The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy's brothers go off, one by one, to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the suffrage movement, and later joins... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Escape to Gwrych Castle In 2020 and 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Gwrych Castle was familiar to the British public as the setting of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Lesser known is that, at the beginning of the Second World War, this once-grand country house... RRP: $45.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Beyond The Broken Years What does Australia's military history reveal about us?In Beyond The Broken Years fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage's classic on World War One soldiers, was published provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it's vital for... RRP: $40.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Hanged in Medicine Hat Was justice served?For three years during the Second World War, 12,000 Nazis were held in a prisoner-of-war camp at the edge of Medicine Hat, an isolated city of 12,000 people on the bald Canadian prairie. The camp and the townsfolk lived cheerfully... RRP: $59.99 $59.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sandspit Assault The Battle of Eniwetok began on February 17th, 1944, on a tropical atoll caught in between the United States and the Japanese Empire during World War II. "Sandspit Assault" follows the soldiers' planning, battlefield experiences, and post-war journeys... RRP: $45.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Women Behind The Few 'Truly excellent...Goes into fascinating detail.' - Military History MattersThis is the little-known story of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the women's branch of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and the vital work they... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added 44 Days in Prague After discovering that her grandmother had pro-German sympathies, Ann Shukman resolved to investigate her grandfather Walter Runciman's 1938 Mission to Prague. This government-sponsored British delegation sought to broker peace between the Czechoslovak... RRP: $50.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Saving Lieutenant Kennedy The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president.On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left... RRP: $35.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Chipilly Six **Shortlisted, 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards, Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize**On 9 August 1918, at Chipilly Spur overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners.The battle has raged for... RRP: $35.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Day We Finally Came Back from Vietnam "10 Years Late", was the headline covering the 1985 parade in New York City. But as these authors and Tom Stack saw it, this parade really was the preface for the main event: the Chicago WELCOME HOME Vietnam Veterans parade on Friday, June 13, 1986. From... RRP: $25.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Pieces of the Action An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all.Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush-engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded... RRP: $43.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Defying Hitler 'Long Live Freedom!'-Hans Scholl's last words before his executionThe White Rose (die Weie Rose) resistance circle was a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich who in the early 1940s secretly wrote and... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Heath Robinson's Second World War Soldiers disguised as a herd of cows, cork bath mats for troops crossing streams and a tank with a piano attachment for camp concerts are just some of the absurd inventions to be found in this book of cartoons designed to keep spirits up during the... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Ye Berlyn Tapestrie As the devastation of German-occupied Belgium awakened Britain to the horrors of the Great War, a group of English cartoonists responded to these events with characteristic black humor. Among the most inventive responses was advertising artist John... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Owen and Sassoon Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, both suffering from shell shock, were sent to convalesce at Craiglockhart hospital in Edinburgh in 1917. Owen, who referred to himself as the 'poet's poet' was unpublished at the time. It was the influence and... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Grand Scuttle At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney by... RRP: $22.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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