Mosul: Australia's secret war inside the ISIS caliphate
By: Ben Mckelvey
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
By: Jocko Willink , Leif Babin
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestseller Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Le… read more
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2. The Crossroad
By: Mark Donaldson
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
On 2 September 2008, in a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second… read more
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3. A Fortunate Life
By: Albert B. Facey , A.B. Facey
4.23
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
This is the extraordinary life of an ordinary man. It is the story of Albert Facey, who lived with … read more
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4. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
5. Transfer of Power (Mitch Rapp, #3)
By: Vince Flynn
3.73
Format: None pages,
On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officia… read more
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6. Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
By: Scott Kelly
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Spac… read more
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7. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
By: Marcus Luttrell , Patrick Robinson
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan fo… read more
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8. In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more
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9. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
By: Steven Pressfield
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
In 480 B.C., two million Persian invaders come to the mountain pass of Thermopylae in eastern Greec… read more
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10. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
11. The Third Option (Mitch Rapp, #4)
By: Vince Flynn
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Mitch Rapp, CIA's top counterterrorism operative, is sent on his final mission. His target, a Germa… read more
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12. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
13. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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14. The Devil's Hand (Terminal List, #4)
By: Jack Carr
4.45
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
It’s been 20 years since 9/11. Two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and em… read more
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15. Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
By: Jim Mattis
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by … read more
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16. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
By: Richard Shepherd
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more
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"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
17. Love Stories
By: Trent Dalton
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more
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"True love is exposing all the pieces."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"Love is knowing when you've come home."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
18. Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
By: Cameron R. Hanes
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERPush beyond your physical limits to improve you… read more
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"This is about abolishing the ego and taking the first step toward becoming the real you!"-Cameron R. Hanes, Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
19. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
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20. Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942
By: Allan Gyngell
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The fear of abandonment lies deep in the history of European settlement in Australia. In this na… read more
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21. Eleven Bats: A Story of Cricket and the SAS
By: Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of cricket was often … read more
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22. Mosul: Australia's secret war inside the ISIS caliphate
By: Ben Mckelvey
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the best-selling author of The Commando and Born to Fight comes a fascinating investigation of… read more
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23. Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders' Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan
By: Mark Willacy
4.38
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's L… read more
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"[Excerpt from Brereton Report] We embarked on this Inquiry with the hope that we would be able to report that the rumours of war crimes were without substance. None of us desired the outcome to which…"-Mark Willacy, Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders' Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan
24. HAVOC-06: A Combat Controller on Operations
By: Troy Knight
4.34
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
I received a target indication from one of the rear team members and observed movement coming from … read more
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25. The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
By: Ben Rhodes
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Oba… read more
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"For a moment, we all just stared out the window at the crowds. “I’m reading a good book now,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"I watched the speech backstage on the teleprompter. Obama paused for a moment, and I saw the text freeze. “I’m going off script here for a second,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"He said we had to find a way to reach Muslims who “didn’t think it was such a great thing to have a McDonald’s down the street and American pop culture on their television."-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"And then Obama said what he believed: that people should be equal under the law; that citizens should be free to criticize their government and protest peacefully; that voters should have the freedom…"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
26. Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
By: Timothy W. Ryback
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library , a dramatic recounting of th… read more
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27. Crossing the Line: The Explosive Inside Story Behind the Headlines
By: Nick McKenzie
4.58
Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition
War is brutal—but some lines should never be crossed. In mid-2017 whispers of executions and cover-… read more
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28. Mental Fitness
By: Ant Middleton
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The brilliant new book from the Chief Instructor of Australia that w… read more
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29. Razor 03: A Night Stalker’s Wars
By: Alan C. Mack
4.44
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
“A truly extraordinary book by a phenomenal pilot and warrior. Alan Mack was in the thick of every … read more
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30. No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: The Life of General James Mattis
By: Jim Proser
4.02
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
The first in-depth look at the marine hero who has become one of the most beloved and admired men i… read more
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31. Lessons from History: Leading historians tackle Australia's greatest challenges
By: David Lowe
3.75
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In Lessons from History leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and th… read more
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