War

Charles Upham was the most highly decorated soldier in the Commonwealth forces of WWII, and could arguably be called the bravest soldier of the war. An unassuming stock worker/ valuer...

A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and...

Originally Wellington, War History Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1956. (Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-45) John Douglas, 2012. Hardback in new condition. Dust jacket...

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind.War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known...

Review 'Far more than a conventional war story, It's a tightly focused epic Doerr paints with a rich palette, using prose that resonates deeply and conveys the ephemera of daily...

BOOK 19 IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY, FROM GLOBAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH. BOOK 3 IN THE TIGER'S PREY SEQUENCE. The Courtney family is torn apart as...

In this startlingly original and thrillingly imagined debut, a brilliant new voice reveals the untold story behind the Trojan war: the princess and the slave who undid Achilles and fought...

There was another war, some 150 years ago, which was unpopular at home -- the death rate shocking, the military strategy confused -- and the first on which the media...

Based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944, an unforgettable tale of love and redemption from the bestselling author of The German Girl.New...

Twenty-one years after it was first published this is a special anniversary edition of the bestselling and much-loved classic published for the centenary of the First World War.     With a new...

In good conditions, though it has a small written name on the front page. The Bronze Horseman is a bestselling historical fiction novel by Paullina Simons, first published in 2000. It...

It's 1914 and Lithgow is booming. Daniel is a young German-Australian, a coalminer and a socialist; Francine is the bourgeois, Irish-Catholic, too-good-for-this-place daughter of one of the mine's owners. When...

For three women living through World War II, the threat of war poses very separate issues - that is, until their lives become intertwined in the most tragic of circumstances.New...

The third novel in Jasper Kent's enthralling, chilling and acclaimed historical vampire sequence -- The Danilov Quintet.Russia 1855. After forty years of peace in Europe, war rages. In the Crimea,...