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  • Nuclear War

    The compulsive non-fiction thriller from the New York Times bestselling writer

    There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war.It could start in as little as 26 minutes and 40 seconds from now…An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller for readers of American Prometheus by Kai Bird or Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham.The first rule of nuclear war is that there are no rules.Until now, ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War

    by Erik Larson ...
    The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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  • Surprise, Kill, Vanish

    The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies and Operators

    THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER'As fast paced as a thriller' Fred Burton, Stratfor Talks' Pen and Sword Podcast****'Jacobsen here presents a tour de force exploring the CIA's paramilitary activities...this excellent work feels like uncovering the tip of the iceberg ...**Highly recommended for those seeking a better understanding of American foreign policy in action' Jacob Sherman, Library Journal</stron. ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Three Days in January

    Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission

    Series series Three Days Series
    The blockbuster #1 national bestsellerBret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier, illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s last days in power.“Magnificently rendered. … Destined to take its place as not only one of the masterworks on ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD $7.99 AUD

  • The Memoirs Of Lord Ismay

    “This memoir is a masterly narrative by a participant at the very centre of British decision-making during the entire Second World War. Major General ‘Pug’ Ismay was appointed secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence in July 1938 and from there became, in May 1940, Churchill’s senior military assistant and an additional member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Officially, his role was the ... Read more

    $7.32 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Wife

    A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal

    The widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legend.In early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband Chris were the happiest they ever had been. Their decade-long marriage had survived years of war that took ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Bloody Okinawa

    The Last Great Battle of World War II

    A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle—the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign—the last of its kind.On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945 ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD $5.99 AUD

  • I Seek My Prey In The Waters: The Coastal Command At War

    THE beginnings of Coastal Command are obscure. It is held by some that, in embryo, it consisted of five officers and four Bleriot monoplanes that were detached from Netheravon in August 1914 for coastal reconnaissance duties. At this time, however, there was a flourishing Naval Air Service which had its being up and down our coasts and which could properly be regarded as a coastal air force...In ... Read more

    $7.32 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Can Hold the Sea

    The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960

    **A close-up, action-filled narrative about the crucial role the U.S. Navy played in the early years of the Cold War, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide“A lucid, fast-moving and fitting finale to [Hornfischer’s] career.”—The Wall Street Journal**This landmark account of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea combines narrative history with scenes of ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • With Musket & Tomahawk

    The West Point?Hudson Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777

    In this third volume of Michael Logusz’s epic study of the Wilderness War of 1777, a sizable British military force, augmented with German and loyalist soldiers, attacks the Northern Army’s southern front in the fall of 1777 in hopes of assisting a much larger British Army that is threatened to the north of New York City in the wilderness region of Saratoga.In previous works on the Wilderness War, ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD

  • One Tough Marine

    The Autobiography of First Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen, USMC

    “Searing . . . An inspiring story.”—Publishers Weekly“This is the . . . powerfully told story of an exceptionally determined human being.”—BooklistOn September 21, 1962, U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen’s life changed forever . . .During a routine parachute jump, strong winds drove Hamblen into high tension wires at the outskirts of Camp Pendleton, California. Doctors were astounded ... Read more

    $12.15 AUD

  • No Easy Day

    The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden

    THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTIONFor the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind.No Easy Day puts readers inside the elite, handpicked twenty-four-man team known as SEAL Team Six as they train for the most important mission of their lives.From the crash of the Black Hawk helicopter ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story

    An utterly gripping non-fiction adventure narrative, 'Lost in Shangri-La' is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission.Three months before the end of World War II, a U.S. Army plane flying over New Guinea’s Baliem Valley crashed in uncharted mountains inhabited by a Stone Age tribe. Nineteen passengers and crew were killed and two ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Ghost Platoon

    by Frank Walker ...
    Series Book 1 - Hachette Military Collection
    "thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' The Sun-HeraldAn eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold . . . until now.In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn’t even have an officer or sergeant in charge. A rugged ex-Royal Marine stepped forward to take the lead. Jim Riddle was only an acting ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Band Of Brothers

    ****THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**Foreword by Tom Hanks.**The book that inspired Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed TV series, and its sequel, Masters of the Air.In Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy Company, a crack rifle company in the US Army. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the dangerous parachute landings on D-Day and their triumphant capture of ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • D-Day

    The Battle for Normandy

    by Antony Beevor ...
    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - REISSUED WITH A NEW FOREWORD FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fearThe Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaki... ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • 13 Hours

    The explosive true story of how six men fought a terror attack and repelled enemy forces

    13 HOURS is the true account of the events of 11 September 2012, when terrorists attacked a US State Compound and a nearby CIA station in Libya, one of the most dangerous corners of the globe. On that fateful day, a team of six American security operators stationed in Benghazi fought to repel mounting enemy forces and escalating firepower, to protect the Americans stationed there, including the US ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • The Tiger Man of Vietnam

    by Frank Walker ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen.As he flew over South East Asia towards Vietnam, Captain Barry Petersen struggled to keep an aura of calm. Inwardly he was incredibly excited. Aged 28, highly trained, with experience in anti-communist guerilla warfare, he was about to embark on the ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • The American Civil War: History in an Hour

    by Kat Smutz ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the country united.The American Civil War: History in an Hour gives a concise and authoritative overview of ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD $5.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside Delta Force

    by Eric Haney ...
    The story of America's elite military unit told by one of its founding membersThey are the U.S. Army's most élite top secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won't hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret missions; and no book has ever taken readers inside-until now. Here, a founding member of Delta Force takes us behind the veil of ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • The Ravens: The True Story Of A Secret War In Laos, Vietnam

    Officially the war in Laos did not exist – both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the south, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from the air. The Ravens were the pilots, all volunteers, who flew through heavy groundfire to identify ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Proud Bastards

    One Marine's Journey from Parris Island through the Hell of Vietnam

    A riveting memoir of one marine rifleman's journey from Parris Island through the hell of Vietnam and the Tet Offensive with the Second Battalion, Fourth Marines.In 1967, a young E. Michael Helms boarded a bus to the legendary grounds of Parris Island, where mere boys were forged into hardened Marines—and sent to the jungles of Vietnam. It was the first stop on a journey that would forever change ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD

  • NUKED: I Was A Guinea Pig For The U.S. Army

    In 1956, the United States detonated 17 H-bombs in the South Pacific, including the two deadliest explosions ever to occur anywhere on our planet—before or since.The 1,612 soldiers stationed at the headquarters island (including me, a draftee) were sent there to “observe” this nuclear test series, named Operation Redwing. Wearing only T-shirts and shorts and without Radsuits, high density goggles ... Read more

    $4.39 AUD

  • Enemy Coast Ahead [Illustrated Edition]

    Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 200 maps, plans, and photos.THE classic account of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command during World War Two.This is probably the best-known memoir by a Bomber Command Officer. The author first saw active service with 83 Squadron in 1939 flying against German naval targets. After completing 39 missions he ... Read more

    $4.39 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus