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Bugles & A Tiger :my Life In The Gurkhas Cassell Military by John Masters
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
John Masters was a soldier before he became a novelist. Born in India, he was sent to England to complete his education before attending Sandhurst. It was there the rumour began about his ancestry, that (in the language of the time) he 'had a touch of the tarbrush'. This encounter with racist bigotry wo ...Show more
Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
$21.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, Das Boot is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of World War II and an acclaimed film and TV drama. Das Boot is the thrilling story of a U-boat commander and his crew during World War II. It is autumn 1941 and a German U-b ...Show more
Fighter Pilot by Paul Richey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
Originally published anonymously in 1941, this was the first and finest story of a fighter pilot in World War Two. Based on the author's personal journal, it is the classic account of the part played by RAF No.1 Squadron in the air battles that preceded the fall of France in 1940. Beginning on the day t ...Show more
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader. In 1931, at the age of 21, Douglas Bader was the golden boy of the RAF. Excelling in everything he did he represented the Royal Air Force in aerobatics displays, played rugby for Harleq ...Show more
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
The famous story of escape from a German POW camp. One of the most famous true stories from the last war, this tells how more than 600 men in a German prisoner of war camp achieved an extraordinary break-out, following a year of digging tunnels, faking passports, forging weapons and tailoring uniforms a ...Show more
The Road Past Mandalay by John Masters
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story tha ...Show more
The Somme by Peter Hart
$29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it. On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambli ...Show more
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