The Second World War Illustrated - The First Year: September 1939 - September 1940 by Jack Holroyd
Category: Military
The first volume covers contributory factors leading up to the outbreak of hostilities. Hitler's amazing success in correcting the real and perceived insults to the German nation resulting from the Great War and the Treaty of Versailles is acknowledged. There followed a military operation - Blitzkrieg - ...Show more
Israeli Paratroopers 1954-2016 by David Campbell; Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Elite Ser.
From the creation of the first volunteer paratroop unit shortly after the birth of Israel and of the Israeli Defense Force, this arm of service has been recognized as elite. They have also been the first choice for daring special missions, and it is mainly from their ranks that Israel's Special Forces u ...Show more
Lords of the Sky: How Fighter Pilots Changed War Forever, from the Red Baron to the F-16 by Dan Hampton
Category: Military
The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation--a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the Red Baron and his triplane in World War I to ...Show more
The Empire Strikes South: Japan's Air War Against Northern Australia 1942-45 by Tom Lewis OAM
Category: Military
Very few Australians today know of the fierce air battles fought across the Top End of Australia in World War II. For more than two years Japanese aircraft crossed the coast and bombed relentlessly. Savage dogfights were fought between the legendary Zero fighter and Allied Kittyhawks and Spitfires. Big ...Show more
Dogfight: The Greatest Air Duels of World War II (Co-Ed) by Tony Holmes
Category: Military | Series: General Aviation
Covering four air forces, three theaters, and ten iconic fighters, this book is the complete story of head to head aerial combat in World War II.Matching up ten aerial rivals - including Spitfires, Messerschmitts, Mustangs and Zeros - with their greatest foes, this book analyzes the histories of the mac ...Show more
Escape from Paris: Resistance, Love, and Betrayal in World War II Paris by Stephen Harding
Category: Military
This book is The Nightingale meets All the Light We Cannot See, only it's all true--a thrilling wartime adventure story of downed American aviators rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo Escape from Paris is the true story ...Show more
Abducting a General - The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Category: Military
One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dre ...Show more
Firearms of the World by eds.
Category: Military
The perfect book to become familiar with sporting, military and defence weapons. Includes all types of weapons from handguns and muskets and rifles to submachine guns, machine guns and shotguns.
Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
Category: Military
If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the 26 British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 m ...Show more
The Australian Soldier by Lawrence BROWN
Category: Military | Series: Collection 1914-1918
Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photographs, letters, stories and old uniforms kept in attics are all that is left. Thanks to a collection of more than ten thousand documents, the author allows u ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more