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A Shot of History: Convict Hell by Cameron, David W.
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A Shot of History
The year 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour. This convict penal settlement located on the isolated primeval rugged west coast of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) quickly gained a reputation as an ‘Earthy Hell’.
Australians on the Western Front 1918 Vol 1 by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In Australians on the Western Front 1918 Volume 1, the first in a two-part series, David Cameron tells the extraordinary story of Australian troops on the Western front in March and April of 1918. These troops were directly responsible for pushing back the German advances on the Somme towards Amiens at ...Show more
Australians on the Western Front 1918 Volume II: Spearheading the Great British Offensive by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Following on from volume 1 of Australians on the Western Front 1918- The Great German Offensive, volume 2, The Battle for the Hindenburg Line, concludes with a detailed account of the final battles of World War I and the defeat of German armed forces on the Western Front. In compelling detail, David W. ...Show more
Convict-era Port Arthur : Misery of the Deepest Dye by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthurfocuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O'Hara Booth, a signif ...Show more
Death on Bloody Ridge: Chunuk Bair: the battle that decided the fate of the Gallipoli Campaign by David W. Cameron
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
The August Offensive or ‘Anzac Breakout’ at Gallipoli was an attempt to break the stalemate of the campaign. It saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the landing as Commonwealth and Turkish troops fought desperate battles at Lone Pine, German Officers’ Trench, Turkish Quinn’s, The Chessboard, The Ne ...Show more
Gona's Gone!: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November 1942, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track to the north coast of Papua New Guinea, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachheads at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The Japanese were determined to ...Show more
Retaking Kokoda: The Battles for Templeton's Crossing, Eora Creek and the Oivi-Gorari positions by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, had the Australians on the back foot. Australia was holding the last defendable ridge in the Owen Stanley ranges, Imita Ridge. Horii to his distress was then given orders from Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo that he was to fall back ...Show more
Saving Port Moresby: Fighting at the end of the Kokoda Track by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, was after taking Kokoda Plateau in late July tasked with entering the Owen Stanley Range to capture Port Morseby. After the battles for Deniki and Isurava, his troops were pushing south through the mountains. The Australians under B ...Show more
The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942 by David W. Cameron
$19.99 AUD
$32.99 (39% off)
Category: Military
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, an ...Show more
The Battles for Kokoda Plateau: Three Weeks of Hell Defending the Gateway to the Owen Stanleys by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A powerful new insight into the critical first weeks of fighting to halt the Japanese advance across Papua New Guinea to Port Moresby.
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