Beersheba: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War by Paul Daley
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It was a glorious triumph of arms for Australian forces, a romantic moment of dash and bravura that stood out in the tragedy of World War I. Yet it barely registers in Australia's national consciousness. In October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade took part in what is now known as ...Show more
The Illusion Of Victory: The True Costs of Modern War by Ian Bickerton
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Category: Military
Analysing two centuries of warfare involving Western nations, this book systematically demolishes every argument that is put forward to justify going to war. By looking at the victors and the vanquished at the end of a major war and then a generation later, Ian Bickerton finds that the rewards of victor ...Show more
Spitfire Pilot: Lou Spence: A Story of Bravery, Leadership and Love by John C.H Spence FRS
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Category: Military
Fighter pilot Lou Spence’s story is one of bravery, leadership and love. Author John Spence draws on his father’s wartime diaries, which he addressed to his young wife back in Perth. During World War 2, Lou Spence few in the Middle East against Rommel’s forces, then defende ...Show more
Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape by Jeff Steel
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Category: Military
His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot down by a night fighter: He has ten seconds to act or he will never see her again. Ambrose Adlam did not even want to go to war. Hitler’s war came looking for him. The war env ...Show more
1942: the year the war came to Australia: The bombing of Darwin and the attack on Sydney by the Japanese by Peter Grose
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Category: Military
The story of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese midget sub attack on Sydney Harbour in one volume from the bestselling author of An Awkward Truth and A Very Rude Awakening. 'Grose's compassionate, honest and vivid account deserves to be widely read.' Sun Herald on An Awkward Truth 'About as good as ...Show more
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
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Category: Military
Now a New York Times bestseller We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.Decades before the American Revoluti ...Show more
Best of Times, Worst of Times: Bomber Command, Two Men, One War by Jeff Steel
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Category: Military
Joe’s love of flying and adventure led him to volunteer for active service: dropping bombs on Nazi Germany. Tom’s hatred of Hitler’s vile regime brought him to the same point. The war was to throw Joe and Tom together. Within a few desperate seconds, on the way to Berlin a ...Show more
Luftwaffe Special Weapons 1942-45 by Robert Forsyth; Jim Laurier (Illustrator)
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Category: Military
As the course of World War II turned against the Third Reich after Stalingrad some of the most inventive and radical proposals, and designs, were put forward by armaments manufacturers, scientists and technicians, aircrew and even private individuals to the Reichsluftministerium (German Air Ministry) fo ...Show more
Hunt the Bismarck - The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship by Angus Konstam
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Category: Military
A ground-breaking narrative account of one of World War II's most exciting chase stories, the pursuit of the legendary German battleship Bismarck.Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941 and her subsequent ...Show more
Smoky the War Dog: How a tiny Yorkshire Terrier became a hero on the frontline by Allsopp Nigel
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Category: Military
Now in paperback In March 1944, deep in the New Guinean jungle, a little Yorkshire Terrier was found hiding in a foxhole. Her presence there was a mystery, but American soldier Bill Wynne became her new owner. He named her Smoky, never dreaming that his little mate would turn out to be quite so extraord ...Show more
The Battle for Shaggy Ridge by Phillip Bradley
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Category: Military
An enlightening re-examination of an important campaign following the experiences of the men from both sides. 'You climb and climb . . . This is the field of battle . . . tonight some of us will be dead . . . You'll never forget Shaggy Ridge.' - Shawn O'Leary From the killing ground of Kaiapit to the tr ...Show more
Keep Off the Skyline The Story of Ron Cashman and the Diggers in Korea by Robert Macklin
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Category: Military
"Keep off the skyline" was Ron Cashman's watchword in wartime Korea when a silhouette on the horizon invariably meant sudden death. It helped to keep him alive in confronting a vigilant and dangerous enemy for almost two years of armed conflict. And he has applied the same phrase ever since, through ano ...Show more