Amazon Kindle – Now Available In Australia – BookOffers Buyers Guide
Amazon.com today announced that the Kindle will become available in Australia from October 19 2009. Australian book lovers will no doubt have the new international Kindle on the top of their Christmas lists this year. BookOffers.com.au predicts that the arrival of the Kindle in Australia will be a game changer for the Australian book industry. [...]
Learn MoreCharlotte Madison’s day is very different from everyone else’s. Each morning she gets Dressed to Kill venturing where no woman has dared to go before. This is the true story of a woman flying Apache helicopters under fire.
My fingers close around the trigger. I pause for a split second to think about the bullets [...]
Point Omega is a compact, gripping, powerful novel which is also a mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind. Author Don De Lillo looks into the mind and heart of a “defense intellectual,” one of the men involved in the management of the country’s war machine.
In the middle of a desert ’somewhere south [...]
An award winning journalist, who has reported from the world’s most troubled regions such as Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans and the Middle East, Mark Danner is more than controversial in his Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War, which has left many critics gasping for both air and words.
Stripping Bare the Body shows at [...]
Little-Known Wars of Great and Lasting Impact: New Perspectives on Turning Points in Our History is a new look at some of the unknown wars of history by history, business and management author Alan Axelrod
Alan Axelrod identifies 18 smaller wars that led to great changes in history, from the Afghan Civil War that precipitated the [...]
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The Good Soldiers by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel ” is the finest book yet written on platoon-level combat in the Iraq War. Unforgettable – raw, moving, and rendered with literary control. No one who reads this book will soon forget its imagery, words, or characters.’ STEVE COLL, author of The Bin Ladens
It [...]
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In The Tiger Man of Vietnam – Frank Walker tells the story of Barry Petersen, a young Australian officer, who was seconded by the CIA to travel into the remote highlands to build a guerrilla force of Montagnard tribesmen to harass and attack the Viet Cong. It was an extraordinary secret [...]
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The Wolf by Australians Peter Hohnen & Richard Guilliatt is the story of a German ship hell bent on making life difficult for southern ocean shipping and is a fascinating tale that will appeal to military historian types as well as making a great Fathers Day 2009 present.
July 1917: the First World War is about [...]
From the world’s bestselling military historian Antony Beevor comes D-Day, a definitive account of the most famous invasion in military history, the battle for Normandy 65 years ago - D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Even Stalin was awed by D-Day.
‘In the whole history of war,’ he wrote to Churchill, ‘there has never been such an undertaking.’ [...]
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In late November of 2001 forty members of the US Army’s super secret counterterrorist unit known as Delta Force were sent to the Tora Bora Mountains in eastern Afghanistan to kill terrorist mastermind Usama Bin Laden. Kill Bin Laden is their true story.
The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world – [...]
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