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  • The Happiest Man on Earth

    by Eddie Jaku ...
    WINNER OF THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2021Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp.Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Nancy Wake

    The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spyIn the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person.As a naïve, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Courtney's War

    The incredible Second World War epic from the master of adventure, Wilbur Smith

    by Wilbur Smith, David Churchill ...
    Book 14 - Courtney series
    BOOK 16 IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' *-*The Times'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily MirrorTWO HEROES. ONE UNBREAKABLE BOND.Torn... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Man's Search For Meaning

    The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

    by Viktor E Frankl ...
    Over 16 million copies sold worldwide'Every human being should read this book' Simon SinekOne of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure

    by Neil Churches ...
    The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place – 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present-day Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers, but by two ordinary ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Land Girls of Goodwill House

    The historical saga from Fenella J Miller

    by Fenella J Miller ...
    Book 4 - Goodwill House
    The instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling Goodwill House series.August 1940As Autumn approaches, Lady Joanna Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House - land girls, Sally, Daphne and Charlie.Sally, a feisty blonde from the East End, has never seen a cow before, but she’s desperate to escape London and her horrible ex, Dennis. And although the hours are long and the work hard, ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Firestorm

    by Tamara McKinley ...
    If you love Lesley Pearse, you're sure to fall for Tamara McKinley. A tale of hardship, hidden identities and our shared struggle to survive.Becky Jackson's family has been managing the hospital in far-flung Morgan's Reach for three generations. When Becky's husband is tragically lost at war, she and her young son Danny must leave the city and return to her birthplace to start over. But for all ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Bridge at Andau

    The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People

    by James A. Michener ...
    The Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping. His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future—until, at four o’clock in the morning on a Sunday in November, the citizens of ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Eye of the Storm: 25 Years in Action with the SAS

    Twenty-Five Years In Action With The SAS

    by Peter Ratcliffe ...
    A fast-paced, dramatic, funny and occasionally disturbing account of Peter Ratcliffe's 25-year career in the SAS. It is laced with first-hand descriptions of ferocious and bloody fighting, sudden death and incredible heroism, and peopled with a cast of extraordinary individuals, hard-fighting soldiers of every rank and background. ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Barbarossa

    How Hitler Lost the War

    by Jonathan Dimbleby ...
    A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'A page-turning descent into Hell and back . . . this fresh and compelling account of Hitler's failed invasion of the Soviet Union should be on everyone's reading list for 2021' Dr Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire______________... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Inside The Third Reich

    by Albert Speer ...
    The classic eye-witness account of Nazi Germany, by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand man.'Inside the Third Reich is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle’s Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’ arch-rival. From the bestselling author of ‘Operation Mincemeat’ and ‘Agent Zigzag’.Adam Worth was the greatest master criminal of Victorian times. Abjuring violence, setting himself up as a perfectly respectable gentleman, he became the ringleader for the largest criminal ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • Australia's Secret Army

    by Michael Veitch ...
    Established after World War I by the Royal Australian Navy, the Coast Watchers were a loose organisation of several hundred European settlers, missionaries, patrol officers and planters living in British and Australian Pacific Island territories whose job it was to observe and report on the enemy. They were mostly all unpaid volunteers whose job it was simply to observe and report on foreign ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Last Lifeboat

    by Hazel Gaynor ...
    ‘Heart-wrenching . . . a story that needs to be remembered’ FERN BRITTON‘Enthrallingly told . . . it’s extraordinary how despite everything hope for the future shines out’ RACHEL HORELiverpool 1940. Alice King stands on the deck of SS Carlisle, waiting to escort a group of children to Canada as overseas evacuees. She is finally doing her bit for the war.In London, as the Blitz bombs rain down and ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD $5.99 AUD

  • The Happiest Man on Earth: Illustrated Edition

    by Eddie Jaku ...
    Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp.Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD $12.99 AUD

  • SAS Shadow Raiders

    The Ultra-Secret Mission that Changed the Course of WWII

    by Damien Lewis ...
    From bestselling true military author Damien Lewis: the incredible story of the radar wars, Britain's most secret battle.'Nail-biting action all the way - the explosive true story' - Mark 'Billy' Billingham'A true story that reads better than any thriller' - Dan Snow'One of the most important special forces books written. It traces the daring, ingenuity and sheer courage that is the foundation of ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Civilian Bomb Disposing Earl

    Jack Howard & Bomb Disposal in WW2

    by Kerin Freeman ...
    Charles 'Jack' Henry George Howard, GC, 20th Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire, born into the noble formidable House of Howard, possessed extraordinary courage. Jack became an earl at the age of eleven after his father died in WWI in Mesopotamia. At age thirty-four, Jack's courageous spirit led him to execute a daring mission for the British government in 1940 in Paris. Under the noses of the advancing ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ordinary Men

    Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

    by Christopher R. Browning ...
    “A remarkable—and singularly chilling—glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."—NewsweekChristopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs.Ordinary Men is ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Last Corpsman

    The Story of John I. Unger, Chief Hospital Corpsman, U.S. Navy, and Former World War II Prisoner of War in the Pacific

    by Juan Carlos Marcos ...
    The Last Corpsman, chronicles the life of John I. Unger from his birth in Austria in 1920, his immigration to the US, joining the Navy, his training as a Corpsman and his subsequent assignment with the Marine 1st Defense Battalion on Wake Island. His first-hand knowledge of the attacks on Wake Island on December of 1941, and, subsequently 44 months as a POW, are captured in detail. The book brings ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • The War Girls of Goodwill House

    The start of a gripping historical saga series by Fenella J. Miller

    by Fenella J Miller ...
    series Goodwill House
    'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie LaneAs war looms, can they keep the home fires burning?Lady Joanna Harcourt and her daughter Sarah discover their life of luxury at Goodwill House is over. Because with Lord Harcourt away fighting, the Harcourt girls are facing financial ruin.Lady Joanna is terrified of losing their ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler

    by Ian Kershaw ...
    Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader.Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign figures in history, from his earliest origins to the final days of the Second World War.Now this landmark ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975

    by Max Hastings ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘His masterpiece’ Antony Beevor, Spectator ‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times ‘By far the best book on the Vietnam War’ Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the YearVietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD $13.99 AUD

  • Britain’s Secret Defences

    Civilian saboteurs, spies and assassins during the Second World War

    by Andrew Chatterton ...
    The first full history of the highly trained and ruthless civilian volunteers secretly trained across Britain to be deployed in the case of a German invasion.The narrative surrounding Britain’s anti-invasion forces has often centered on ‘Dad’s Army’-like characters running around with pitchforks, on unpreparedness and sense of inevitability of invasion and defeat. The truth, however, is very ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Wrens' Wartime Christmas

    A festive and romantic wartime saga

    by Vicki Beeby ...
    Book 2 - The Wrens
    German U-boats are getting through the defences. It’s up to the Wrens to stop them.After her fiancé died in the sinking of the Royal Oak, Mary finds herself stationed in Orkney, still battling her grief. With Iris and Sally by her side, she is gradually overcoming her loss and is surprised to be helped by the irascible Joe.Joe is a signalman aboard the Kelpie and his cheeky Morse code si... ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus