A hard cover in excellent condition, this 1978 print of Lt Col A. J. Barker's brilliant analysis of the Afrika Korps' performance during its 2 1/2 years of operations in the Middle East during World War 2, largely under the command of Rommel. It has a rare collection of photographs and Barker's writings are supported by maps and charts.

$ 45

A soft cover in good condition, this Purnell's edition, written by Major K. J. Macksey MC, contains concise information, maps and photos about the Korps during its desert campaigns between February 1941 to May 1943.

$30

Sergeant Stan Arneil, an Australian Eighth Division soldier in 2/30th Infantry Battalion, wrote this sometimes daily record covering the highs and lows of his internment for the whole of the war in Changi following capture by the Japanese in February 1942 when Singapore fell. The illustrations add extraordinary dimension to this authentic diary.

$30

A hard cover in good condition, historian Alan Clark has put the Battle of Crete under a microscope to examine the five critical days in May 1941 during which the fate of Crete was decided by bitter fighting.

$35

A hard cover in excellent condition, Major General Michael Reynolds describes, in his superbly researched masterpiece, the role that this extraordinary and charismatic panzer leader, Standartenfuhrer Jochen Peiper, once an adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, played in Germany's desperate fight during the Battle of the Bulge. A collector's treasure. 

$55

This is a much sought-after and authoritative record of the Battle of Britain, researched and written over a 12 year period by Francis Mason. Its 636 pages, in hard cover and in excellent condition, describe in great detail both the allied and the enemy actions and show progressive listings of air losses on both sides. It also contains some wonderful photographs. It is a must for any serious student of that famous battle. This same book can be seen to be offered for sale in the USA for as high as US$190.

$150

Downer's research to write this history of postwar occupation of Japan leaves few questions unexplored. He shows us the intense and turbulent interplay between conqueror and conquered. Written in 1999, the benefits of hindsight and analysis make this a most intriguing exploration for the student of modern history.

This hardcover edition is in as new condition.

$35

206 pages in hard cover in fine condition with plenty of photos, this was written by Vern Haugland, an Associated Press correspondent in WW2. It describes the exciting experiences of some of the 240 Americans who voluntarily went to England to fly with the RAF in the name of freedom and adventure. 71, 121 and 133 (Eagle) Squadrons, RAF are well covered in here.

$30

Another Alexander McKee well-researched history of an important but cruel event - the destruction of Dresden, once one of Europe's most beautiful cities, in February 1945 by the saturation bombing carried out by allied air-forces trying to end the war by a show of might. The city all but disappeared; more than 100,000 people were killed. 334 pages with photos in hard cover in fine condition.

$35

Published 1961, Quentin Reynolds describes the intriguing trail by ex-members of an Israel underground movement to Buenos Aires where, on 11 May 1960, Eichmann was finally kidnapped so as to be brought to face justice for being responsible for the systemic extermination of six million men, women and children during World War II. This book was, and still remains, a story to shock the world.

$35

A 245 page (hard cover in new condition) well researched biography by historian Charles Messenger describing the life and times of Sepp Dietrich, who commanded an SS Panzer Army in the Battle of the Bulge and was a participant in the "Night of the Long Knives". However, his loyalty to his troops and his leadership was legendary.

$55

Tactics and strategies used in battle by WW1's biplanes and triplanes, WW2's Spitfires, Hurricanes and Messerschmitts and the early supersonic jets that followed are well presented in this 266 page hard cover in fine condition written by Edward H Sims in 1972. 

$40

A German viewpoint of the battles fought in the Middle East by the Afrika Korps. Translated from Mervyn Savill's research writings, Paul Carell's 370 page hard cover (dust jacket a bit worn) describes the big picture of Rommel's strategy and supports it with maps and pics. 

$35

The Fighter Aces of the R.A.F.:

E.C.R. Baker composed this collection of highlights of the wartime accomplishments of some of the RAF's best pilots covering 39 chapters supported by some many personalised photos. The dust jacket is slightly torn at the top.

$40

Bill Gunston provides history in narrative style of aircraft from WW1 to jets with wonderful colour photos to illustrate them in this 64 page hard cover in new condition. 

$20

An authoritative  208 page documentary in hard cover in fine condition (small tear in spine of dustcover) with full colour representations and specifications of 40 of the leading aircraft used by all air-forces during WW2. It's written by Bill Gunston. 

$30

A 205 x 238 mm soft cover in fine condition, this 160 page record of the dreaded Waffen-SS methods and members. Full of photos, it also contains unit emblems, descriptions and drawings. An excellent reference source.

$25

Produced by Hamlyn in the U.K., this 248 page hard cover is in good condition. It contains over 100 colour illustrations and photos, and over 200 black & whites. It describes Germany's strengths and weaknesses in the equipment they used during WW2. Technology, economics, politics, battles as well as battles, generals, warships, aircraft and tanks get mention.

$35

These are the Facts:

This is the 428 page autobiography of Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams KBE, CB, DSO. 'Dickie' Williams was often called the father of Royal Australian Air Force. He remains a legend and "These are the Facts" represents his unique contribution to Australia's military history. 

The book is in top condition but without a dust jacket.

$55

A concise 48 page 185 x 248 mm soft cover in top condition written by Jerry Scutts. It describes how the six main German night-fighters were adapted to change aerial warfare into a new terror for all involved.

$20

In this well written, fascinating (and becoming quite rare) 368 page hard cover in fine condition but with a torn dust-jacket (see photo),  Christopher Hibbert's biography, with many photos, describes the tragedy surrounding this sexual, arrogant and bitter man who brought Italy to it's knees with his Fascist doctrines in search of power and his desperate need to join the Fuhrer's attempt to conquer  Europe during the build up and through the early days of WW2. 

$35

This 278 page hard cover in great condition was written by Britain's Patrick Howarth who'd served with the Eighth Army. Decades later, he revisited the path taken by his unit; he begins in Egypt through Italy and on to Austria. It's a journey during which he talks to survivors and those who lived along the path the Eight Army travelled.  It's military history and travel combined.

$35

Andrew Boyle finished this excellent  biography in 1953. In 384 pages he portrays in hardback in fine condition the life of one of the world's greatest heroes of all times ... Leonard Cheshire, Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross. Immortally, Cheshire is unique ... a distinguished war warrior  who quietly became the Christian devotee after WW2. He went on to make a dramatic difference to the lives of thousand of airmen who were suffering the aftermath of WW2's cruel penalties ... but he did this only by making many personal sacrifices. 

$35

In 1965, Australian Russell Braddon wrote this 160 page biography as a "war and peace" story.  It's a hardback in fine condition and Braddon's own war experience as a POW of the Japanese has produced an empathy to Cheshire's own life story that really comes through. His many bedside interviews with Cheshire during his illnesses provides genuine compassion that adds to an excellent narrative.

$40

Closed, this Publications International chart measures only 314 wide x 447 mm deep. Open, the width expands to 4 metres and the long, continuous page discloses a summary, with photos, of each and every month's most important events that occurred during almost 6 years of fighting during WW2.

A second chart, with an introduction by John Keegan, is also available.

These charts are ideal for use by researchers, historians, schools, writers etc to easily pinpoint  dates of major battles and military campaigns.

2 x $20

Detective Inspector W. H. Thompson was Churchill's bodyguard in the 20s. He'd retired when war broke out but Churchill recalled him to become his personal shadow. This 200 page hard cover (no dust jacket) is in fair condition and provides many insights into Churchill the man, from Thompson's intimate viewpoint.

This authorised biography by Elizabeth Longford with many pictures, is a 155 page soft-cover version in good condition. It describes Churchill's life from birth to his death on 24 January 1965 and portrays his courageous greatness and leadership through WW2 in particular.

211 pages in this hard-cover in fine condition. It is Lucas's well researched version of the Germans' viewpoint of the Desert War using original German sources and interviews with many who took part in the campaigns and the struggles Rommel had with his own High Command. Plenty of photos.

$55

191 pages of pictures and history are in this 220 x 300 mm hard cover in fine condition. George Forty highlights Patton's very direct and the sometimes unusual methods he used to lead his army across German-held Europe during the 1944/45 period. 

$55

J.M. Spaight, C.B., C.B.E first published through Hodder & Stoughton London, this study of British Air Power in August 1940. Fully indexed, the book (in good condition) provides a unique insight into the military and political thinking that existed at that particular early time of World War II. Excellent original photographs of many aircraft and ships, including the "Ark Royal" and the earlier plans for the Fleet Air Arm.

$45

Alfred Price's 301 page work (225 x 297 mm) is a complete history in hard-cover of this classic fighter aircraft.  Importantly, it contains a comparison of the various Marks, excellent pictures and Appendices showing a wealth of information. This book is in new condition.

$45

A 240 x 315 mm  80 page, well illustrated hard-cover in top condition, this book is an interesting analysis by Dr John Pimlott of some major decisions to carry out bombing raids on strategic targets and describes the evolution of some of the aircraft that flew them. 

$25

A 296 page hard-cover in very good condition, Richard O'Neill's book provides excellent understanding of such special attack weapons as midget submarines, explosive motorboats, kamikaze aircraft, manned torpedoes, human bombs and demolition frogman used both Axis and Allied. It also describes the dates and circumstances in which they were employed.

$30

This 237 page 245 x 305 mm hard-cover is in new condition. Holmes and Montbazet present 10 popular US  Navy aircraft (up to 1990); they are described and illustrated in magnificently detailed photos. Ideal for model makers and that rare breed termed "Naval aviators", who love seeing the combination of carrier and aircraft come alive.

$35

This 253 page, indexed hard-cover in fine condition, describes how Ploesti, in Rumania, was producing vital supplies for the Axis forces and thus became one of the US 460th Bombardment Group's targets.  Author Ted Newby's B24 Liberator (by name "Hanger Queen") participated and he writes an exciting war story, explaining, amongst a wealth of facts and information on bombers and bombing, how  a bombardier gets a fix on the target and the workings of the Norden and Sperry bombsights.

$45

Alistair MacLean expertly describes in a narrative story (hard-cover in fair condition - no dust-jacket), an escort's epic 14+ day perilous convey in 1943 through the Northern Atlantic seas from Scapa Flow to Murmansk during which the losses and hardships were innumerable and incredible.

$15

A 446 page documentary by David Irving (in hard-cover and fine condition) is well researched and contains his interpretations of the chronological events prior to, including, and after the Normandy landings. In support, he lists the comprehensive Archival Sources he used as reference. He intimately describes the extraordinary relationships and turmoil that existed between the Allied Generals responsible for leading their various Armies against Germany in the final push to finish WW2. The circumstances surrounding the Battle of the Bulge also feature. 

$45

A 1993 print of Allan Hall's 80 page 220 x 284 mm hard-cover in fine condition, this book contains a fair summary with photos of some of the world's more terrible happenings during various wars.

$15

Covering the entire war in this photographic Odhams Press record covers major theatres of war and describes the living conditions experienced by those in war zones. Some great black & white photos and interesting maps in this hard-cover set. All books, believed to have been printed in 1948, are in very good condition. To own a complete set like this is very rare.

266 pages (plus index) in 236 x 305 mm hard-cover (in new condition) of 1939 to 1946 eyewitness accounts that summarise by specific months, the most important events of the war. Marshall Cavendish produced this book in 1994 and he used good balance of informative photos to support his script.

First published in 1948 by Cassell & Co, Churchill's various writings include: 

Volume 1: The Gathering Storm

Volume 2: Their Finest Hour

Volume 3: The Grand Alliance

Volume 6: Triumph and Tragedy

 All hard-covers (two without dust- jackets but in fairly good condition) they provide a wonderful insight to the workings of the mind of one of the world's greatest war-time leaders.

$100

Randolph Churchill compiled this volume of Churchill's many speeches between 5 May 1938 and 9 November 1940 and presents them in this 313 page hard-cover in good condition (but dust-jacket torn and edge scuffed). These are the speeches that inspired the British nation in the early part of WW2.

$25

David Jones (an Australian Department store) produced this interesting pictorial soft-cover (in fair condition), in 1975 to commemorate the highlights of the life of Sir Winston Churchill, including information of an exhibition held in 1974 by David Jones stores to commemorate his centenary. 

$15

Ann Howard's 193 page hard-cover (in new condition) is a wonderful collection of stories of women in the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS).

$20

Great photos and brief descriptions of almost 200 aircraft that spanned the past 80 years have been published by Maurice Allward in this 96 page, 224 x 305 mm hard-cover in fine condition.

$20

This 383 page historically based novel was written by Lionel Shapiro. It's a hard-cover (no dust jacket) and in good condition. Shapiro uses his characters to give poignant body to the chronological events leading up to and beyond the famous invasion operation: "Overlord".

$10

This is a classic 508 page historical novel (hard-cover in good condition - no dust jacket) written by Kenneth Dodson about the heroic USS Belinda's escapades as an attack-transport ship in the South West Pacific from July 1943 to April 1945. This book was later made into a movie of the same name starring Jeff Chandler.

$15

Richard Pape flew 9 operational sorties as a navigator of an RAF Sterling bomber before being shot down in Holland. Wounded, he is hunted across Europe before, as a POW, he became a legend. In his 314 page auto-biography, (hard-cover with slightly worn dust jacket) he describes his exciting, sometimes almost unbelievable, adventures.

$20

160 pages by Laurence Meynell in hard-cover (fair condition with a frayed, marked dust jacket) vividly describes  true escape stories by seven different British airmen during WW2.  (Basil Embry's exciting escape is just one of them).

$20

Lt-Col Dr Gordon Seagrave's auto-biography "Burma Surgeon" is a 190 page hard cover in fair condition. It begins in Rangoon in 1902 and covers, in diary fashion, this exceptional surgeon's service in Burma from the critical retreat in the face of the Japanese between 30 March 1941 until 1 July 1941. 

$20

$5

$10

Fred Urquhart has selected 19 outstanding adventures out of already published classic war-books to produce this 224 page hard-cover (dust jacket worn). Each is an exciting story well worth reading.

$15

A 304 page hard-cover in new condition, this Ross Burns pictorial history brilliantly covers WW2's highlights. Supporting text adds the refinements. 

$35

A match to the Album above, this 304 page hard-cover in new condition, is Ross Burns' pictorial history that well covers WW1's highlights with supporting text adding refinements. 

$45

This first edition history of No 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, was written by L.W. Sutherland, M.C., D.C.M. and published in 1935. The hard-cover is slightly faded and lightly scratched but print excellent. Lawrence of Arabia was connected to this Squadron during its service in Palestine.  

$85

Produced for school students, this 248 page soft-covered (in good condition) analysis of WW1's origins, right through to its aftermath, written by Carolyn O'Brien and Alan Merritt is an excellent reference for any student of WW1. 

$15

This is an old paperback in poor condition but it's still a valuable history of WW1 written by Barbara Tuchman. 

$5

Although this is a fictitious Jagdstaffel number, the story and contents within this 126 page hard-cover (in fair condition but with a ragged dust jacket) written by M E  Kahner, was acclaimed to be absolutely genuine by many pilots who flew in WW1 on the Western Front in 1918. Only names and numbers had been changed for reasons private to the author. Many excellent and genuine photographs are included.

$40

72 pages of WW1 colourful and brilliant posters (many were the propaganda types widely used by Allies and Axis alike). Each poster has an explanation of its use and purpose as well as a write up about the creator. It is a soft-cover in fair condition published by the Imperial War Museum in 1972.

$25

A DVD copy of a VHS original that runs for about 60 minutes. It was filmed entirely in Northern France and includes photos, archive film and songs to tell the story of WW1 pilots in France. It tours some of the airfield-sites used during the Great War. The circumstances of the death of  Captain Albert Ball, the Victoria Cross winning ace, is explained as are the lives and deaths of several other aces including the Red Baron. There is some quality loss from the VHS tape but generally it tells the story well.

$15

Printed by Odhams Press Ltd of London this tells a graphic history of the years between 1910 and 1935; in hard-cover (cover in worn condition, some pages slightly crinkled). 

$20

Courtlandt Canby wrote this hard-cover (in very good condition but slightly torn dust jacket) [Volume 3] 119 page collection, in chronological sequence, of designs, plans, drawings, paintings, photographs and related explanations depicting the evolution of aircraft and lighter-than-air craft from 1782 to 1963.

$25

An oldie but a goodie ... printed in 1930, this hard-cover (in poor and marked condition) is an extraordinarily real life novel written by an ex-WW1 ace pilot, Elliott White Springs. Forget the poor condition of the book, this 1930 print is a really great yarn.

$30

Focusing only on the developments that occurred between 1799 to 1909, this hard-cover (good condition with only small tears in dust jacket) is a pictorial history, with over 200 photos, drawings and captions. It was prepared by Charles Gibbs-Smith in 1975.

$35

This was published pre-WW2 by Collins of London. 239 pages covering the first 30 years of aviation history, with supporting photographs, in hard-cover ( faded cover - no dust jacket). The inside cover features all badges of rank of the Army, Navy and Air-force. 

$35

A series providing detailed information about land, sea and air weapons used by both sides to oppose their enemies, produced about WW2 in about 1978 by Purnell in Great Britain, 

Parts 1 to 8 (inclusive) published weekly make up this set.

$20

$30

A 493 page novel by Robert Pilpel about the intrigues of American and English military relationships during the first few years of WW1. It has a great ending involving the monumental naval Battle of Jutland. A hard-back (good condition - worn dust jacket). An excellent story.

$10

This is the sought after autobiography of Major James McCudden, V.C., M.C. and bar, DSO and bar covering his five years in WWI's Royal Flying Corps. He dedicated this book to the RFC as one of the last expressed wishes. James McCudden was one of Britain's greatest heroes who died tragically in a trivial accident eclipsing his wide experience and flying skills. Whilst taking off  his motor stopped and he side slipped into the ground.

Originally published in 1918, this version (slightly stained cover at the top with similar stain on spine) was printed in 1933.

 $45

767 pages in hard-cover (torn-worn cloth) and illustrated in the custom of the 1930s, the 50 different authors of these stories about life and events of WW1 have based their contributions on factual happenings that cover many theatres of that war.

$45

Frank Clune's 301 pages  (hard-cover - fine condition) describes his post war trip to Japan and China under the occupation forces of General MacArthur. A most interesting history.

$30

400 pages by Prittie & Edwards in hard-cover (fine condition) describing their "Escape to Freedom" as POWs heading for neutral Switzerland but encountering many disasters along the way.

$35

287 powerful pages (in hard-cover - worn spine edges) by Roberto Battaglia. This indexed documentary provides excellent background to the formation and operations of the Resistance Movement against the German occupation forces.

$ 30

This very rare record: "R.A.A.F Over Europe" has 189 pages plus 54 photos in hard-cover (stained by surface-water damage - some pages crinkled but all readable) edited by Frank Johnson. It has 35 chapters describing the participation of many R.A.A.F.  airmen in the European theatre including the Battle of Britain ... of France ... Dam Busters ... Pathfinders and many more.

$45

Described as "an inside story of the Japanese Prison Camps" this 1946 published record by Rohan D Rivett (a War Correspondent who became a Prisoner of War on the Burma-Siam railway) writes about life in captivity. The book is in very good condition.

$35

$35