Military from Lems Bookshop

The history of the SAS and reconstructs some of the greatest actions while telling the truth behind the astonishing legends. 588 pages with 55 illustrations and 13 maps. Book in very good condition.

July 1942, a large Japanese force landed along the north-eastern coastline of Papua - the story of three weeks of battle by a small Australian militia supported by Papuan soldiers and constabulary outnumbered three to one who fought to hold the Kokoda Plateau and keep the kokoda airstrips out of enemy control. Also the story of two groups of Anglican… Read more about this item

The author spent 40 years in secret service monitoring firstly Nazism then communism in Britain, Holland and Australia during the Cold War. Her appraisal of ASIO raises unanswered questions of great importance. 316 pages with black and white illustrations through the text. Book in very good+ condition.

Eyewitness accounts of the Battle for Normandy - the compelling story of the longest day, 6th June 1944 - D-Day and the fighting that followed, told in the voices of those who were there. 326 pages with a map. Book in very good+ condition.

The Welsh Guards and the defining story of Britain's war in Afghanistan - what it was like to fight as a Welsh Guardsman in Helmand in 2009. 656 pages with 16 pages of colour photographs, black and white illustrations throughout the text, and 9 maps. Book in very good+ condition.

A collection of gripping, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying accounts of life on the front - drawn from diaries, memoirs and letters including poetry, reportage and prose. 413 pages. Book in very good condition with some light foxing to leading edges. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor wear.

A first hand account giving fascinating detail of every day life in the wartime USSR and recounts the gruelling toll of combat and breathtaking bravery of this female sniper. She volunteered for military service and at eighteen was sent to sniper school and after arduous training saw combat from November 1944 in ferocious battles in East Prussia and Poland. 206… Read more about this item

Examines both the German tactics and the Allies preferred solution to fighting the war - overwhelming force of artillery barrage and storm trooper infantry attack verses the advance in technology of weapons in the combination of artillery, tanks, infantry and aircraft. 240 pages and some maps. Book in very good condition with light tanning and minor wear back cover.

21 March 1918 the Germans unleash the biggest set piece battle the world had ever seen involving 2 million German soldiers and for two weeks the plan works until General Haig calls on the Australians to save Villers-Bretonneux the gateway to the key train hub at Amiens. The Australians mount a counter attack that stops the Germans and then forces… Read more about this item

Why a French town will never forget the ANZACS. On 21 March 1918 the Germans launch the biggest set piece battle the world has ever seen across a 45 mile front involving two million German soldiers. For two weeks the plan works and British troops flee before them, in desperations the General Haig calls upon the Australian soldiers to stop… Read more about this item

The little boat that pulled off Australia's most daring commando raid of World War 2. In 1943 the Krait carried 14 Z force operatives from Australia to Singapore and back on Operation Jaywick. 244 pages with 16 pages of photographs and 2 maps. Book in very good condition.

Signed by the author and presented to the previous owner by the Assistant Defence Attache to the Republic of the Philippines. The author enlisted in the RAAF in 1942 wanting to fly aircraft but found himself in top secret wireless units working to intercept radio transmissions sent in Japanese katakana code which when analysed produced highly reliable intelligence that drastically… Read more about this item

A reassessment of one of the Second World War's great set-piece battles with a new Foreword for the 75th Anniversary Edition. 613 pages with 42 black and white photographs and 19 maps. Book in very good+ condition with booksellers sticker on back cover.

On 11 April 1945, eight Australian Z Special commandos landed on Japanese held Muschu Island, nine days later the only survivor landed back on the New Guinea mainland - this is the story of that survivor. 255 pages with 2 maps. Book in very good condition with light tanning.

The story of Australians at war at home and abroad in the years 1939 to 1945. 502 pages with 24 pages of black and white photographs and 7 maps, Book in very good condition.

An Australian General, 300,000 troops, the bloodiest conflict of our time. In 2004 the author was deployed to Iraq and in the book he gives an insiders account of what modern warfare entails. 358 pages with 16 pages of mainly colour photographs. Book in very good+ condition.

Part of The Military History of World War 2 series, Volume 10. A brief history of the war in Burma and China. 66 pages with numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Book in very good condition.

Part of the Battleground Europe series. Pozieres is a typical Somme village and here in late July, August and early September 1916 Australian Divisions fought long and hard against the Germans - the author gives a full description of what happened on the ground. 144 pages with numerous maps and black and white photographs throughout. Book in near fine condition.

The secret mission to storm a forbidden Nazi fortress - in the winter 1944 the Allies were stalled on the mountain defences of the Gothic Line.400 pages with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Book in very good+ condition.

Revised and updated edition of SAS: Phantoms of War. Trained to operate deep behind enemy lines the SAS secretly conduct surveillance and reconnaissance operations and if needed are ready for violent combat. An intriguing account of the regiment's first 40 years. 356 pages with 8 pages of black and white photographs and 6 maps. Book in very good+ condition.