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A Doctor's War
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One of the last great stories to emerge from World War II, this is an account of the horrors of battle, imprisonment and survival as seen through the eyes of ...
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A Gremlin on my Shoulder: The Story of an Australian Fighter Pilot
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This is the story of a little boy from a remote Australian country village, whose fervent wish was to fly. From a family with very modest income, he had little ...
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A Merciful Journey: Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man
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In 1939 Marsden Hordern's mother refused to sign the paper allowing her seventeen-year-old son to fight overseas with the Royal Australian Air Force. 'I did not rear you ...
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A Month at the Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
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Discovered at the bottom of a box of books recently donated to a library in Oxford, this war journal vividly tells the story of a young First World War soldier and his experiences at the Front in the summer of 1917 in his own words.
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A Soldier's Soldier: The Life of Lieutenant-General Sir Carl Jess
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As a Bendigo-born youth, Jess joined the cadets in 1899, served in the militia with 8th Australian Infantry Regiment, then transferred to the Administrative and Instructional Staff of the Permanent ...
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An Anzac's Story: Roy Kyle A.I.F.
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Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are ...
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Anzac Cove to Hollywood: The Story of Tom Skeyhill, Master of Deception
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This biography of Skeyhill follows the thread of Tom's life in Australia, the Middle East and the USA. The result of years of sleuthing in the manuscript collections, this is a book of unusual interest for WWI historians, the lure of Hollywood and for anybody who is interested in human nature ...
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Anzac Digger: An Engineer in Gallipoli and France
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Roy Denning was a First World War Soldier who went to Gallipoli as a sapper with No. 1 Field Company, Engineers. He was an articulate man and he has ...
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Anzac Doctor: The Life of Sir Neville Howse, V.C.
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One of Australia's most outstanding soldier-surgeons, Sir Neville Howse was awarded the Victoria Cross for heroism during the Boer War, the first time it had been conferred on ...
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Arthur Blackburn, VC: An Australian Hero, his Men, and their Two World Wars
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This, the first biography of Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, details the famous battles that shaped Australia - the Gallipoli landing, Lone Pine, Pozieres and Mouquet Farm - plus the unfairly marginalised conflicts in Syria and Java. It tells Blackburn's story through the eyes of his comrades ...
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Backs to the Wall: A Larrikin on the Western Front
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In this gripping account, George Deane Mitchell relives the horror and humour of an Australian solider on the Western From in World War I. 'Backs to the Wall' was originally published in 1937 ...
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Bean's Gallipoli: The Diaries of Australia's Official War Correspondent
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The story of the ANZAC Gallipoli campaign based on the diaries of CEW Bean, the official Australian correspondent at Gallipoli ...
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Bowler of Gallipoli: Witness to the Anzac Legend
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Dr Frank Glen's book provides a study of the only New Zealanders to serve on the Staff Corps of ANZAC at Gallipoli in 1915. Glen traces the career of a ...
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Chiefs of the Australian Army: Higher Command of the Australian Military Forces 1901-1914
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'The Chiefs' tells the remarkable story of the talented, dedicate, and now little known, generals who led and shaped the Australian Army in its challenging formative years ...
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Command in Vietnam: Reflections of a Commanding Officer
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Colonel Peter Scott commanded the 3RAR known as 'Old Faithful' at Woodside in Australia from 1969-1971, and in Vietnam until October 1971. This book 'Command in Vietnam' is an outstanding personal record of a Commanding Officer in Vietnam ...
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Darwin Bombed: An A/A Gunner's Reflections
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This updated edition of Jack's controversial autobiography presents the unofficial history of the 14th Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery in Darwin. The Battery was the first army unit to engage the Japanese when they attacked Australia. It details the way ordinary people coped with the hardships of life in the tropical north and how they reacted under fire.
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Darwin Dilemmas
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Ron Brown was one of the few who was in Darwin throughout the war. This is his story of Darwin life just before and during WWII. This is a slightly ...
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Darwin's Submarine I-124
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The first attacks on Australia by the Japanese were made by four submarines of the Sixth Submarine Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy. These 80-man boats laid mines, and then waited in their killing zones for targets to torpedo. On 20 January 1942, it all went horribly wrong. Sunk with all hands, the submarine I-124 ...
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Forgotten Valour: The Story of Arthur Sullivan VC, Shy War Hero
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'Forgotten Valour' is the story of Arthur Sullivan VC and other Australian soldiers who enlisted in the Great War but went on to fight in the Russian Civil War ...
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From Gallipoli to Palestine: The War Writing of Sergeant G.T. Clunie of the Wellington Rifles 1914-1919
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From Gallipoli to Palestine provides the reader with a view of the historic Anzac operations at Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine. Gary Clunie sailed from New Zealand in December 1914 with the Wellington mounted Rifles Regiment and did not return home until 1919. He maintained a diary ...
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He Came from Australia: Lieutenant Percival Ralph, MM, MID (53rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force)
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As well as a brief outline of the history of the 53rd Battalion in the last years of the war, this is primarily the story of Lieutenant Percy Ralph ...
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Jacka VC: Australian Hero
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Albert Jacka was the people's hero of the Great War. In 1919 he returned to a triumphant welcome as thousands lined the streets to cheer the first Australian to be ...
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Killer Caldwell: Australia's Greatest Fighter Pilot
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Clive 'Killer' Caldwell was a natural and brilliant pilot, a superb shot, and born leader. He saw action against the Germans, Italians and Japanese, and remains Australia's greatest ...
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Letters Home: To Mother From Gallipoli and Beyond
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A suitcase, a diary, and a bundled pile of postcards and letters left abandoned in a barn. Lying unknown to his family, here was the life of a young man of humble beginnings who left home at 14, only to later experience the horrors of Gallipoli day by day, day after day, and establish one of Australia's great political families ...
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Luck is No Accident: Flying in War and Peace 1946-1986
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The author learned to fly as a teenager, and here he describes his experiences in both the RAAF and civil aviation. He flew with No. 77 (Fighter) Squadron flying Meteor ...
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Maker and Breaker: 2/1 and 2/14 Field Company Engineer Officer 1939-1945
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This book tells the the true story of John Grover, engineer, and his experiences of World War Two. Aged only 24 by the end of the war, John joined up in the Engineers when war broke out in 1939 and was part of 2/1 and 2/14 Field Companies ...
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Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War
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Australian General Sir John Monash changed the way wars were fought and won. When the British and German High commands of the 1914-1918 War failed to gain the ascendency after ...
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No Ordinary Determination; Percy Black and Harry Murray of the First AIF
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Jeff Hatwell's epic tale is shaped by the lives of two extraordinary individuals thrown into the extraordinary and surreal work of the Gallipoli campaign as soldiers of the ...
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On the Western Front: Soldiers' Stories from France and Flanders
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Official histories of the First World War are accounts of strategy and tactics, political and logistical considerations and after reading them many might ask why soldiers are rarely mentioned except in terms of military units. Even regimental histories devote more space ...
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Only One River to Cross: An Australian Soldier Behind Enemy Lines in Korea
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'Only One River to Cross' is a dramatic suspenseful and splendidly written story of Australians at war. Dr Harris tells the story of his early years on the Buronga Ridge ...
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Operation Orders: The Experiences of an Infantry Officer (Malaya, PNG, Vietnam 1963-1970)
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This book gives a valuable insight into Australia's military involvement in South East Asia and Papua New Guinea as experienced by an Infantry Officer, Pat Beale. He was ...
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Over the Top: A Digger's Story of the Western Front
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Harry Hartnett, joined the Australian Imperial Force on 13 September 1915 at the age of 23. He saw action on the Western Front at Fromelles and on the Somme, receiving his first ‘Blighty’ (a wound). Harry recalls the battles, the long marshes, and the many musing events that provided escape from the horrors of the battlefront ...
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Rainbow: The Story of Rania MacPhillamy
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Rania MacPhillamy left Australia in 1915 to work in a Cario hospital treating the wounded from Gallipoli. After the death of her soldier sweetheart she stayed on in Egypt and together with another woman, she set up a series of canteens for the men ...
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The Fight Leaders: A Study of Australian Battlefield Leadership (Green, Ferguson and Hasset)
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This book is the story of leadership within the Australian Army and in particular during World War Two and in Korea.p During a twelve month period in the ...
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The Luck of the Draw: Horses, Spitfires and Kittyhawks
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Ted Sly, the author, is a descendant of long line of colonial families, the best known being that of explorer and builder, Sir Thomas Mitchell. Although a city boy, Ted ...
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The Western Front Diaries: The Anzacs' Own Story Battle by Battle
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Using hundreds of brutally honest and extraordinary eyewitness accounts of the diggers in the muddy and bloody trenches, 'Western Front Diaries' reproduces their private diaries, letters, postcards and photographs to tell of their heart-rending experiences, battle by bloody battle ...
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Uncensored Dardanelles
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'Uncensored Dardanelles' is a collection of memoirs written by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, a British war correspondent, during WWI. Here he gives a captivating personal account of the happenings of the war in the Dardanelles.
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Victoria Cross: Australia's Finest and the Battles they Fought
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Four wars. Seventy battles. Countless acts of valour. And, in Australia, one single cause.p For over 130 years, the Victoria Cross was the Commonwealth's highest military honour. The ...
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Warrior Brothers: My Life in the Australian SAS
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For the first time, an Australian ex-SAS soldier tells all: what it means to be a member of an elite group, the challenges, the highs and the lows - and the sense of duty, honour and brotherhood that never dies ...
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When Good Men Do Nothing
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Griffith Spragg, was born in West Maitland on 24 January 1922. He began his working life as a Junior Clerk at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 1939, and enlisted ...
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Winning with Intelligence: A Biography of Brigadier John David Rogers, CBE, MC, 1895-1978
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'Winning with Intelligence' is a military biography of Brigadier John Rogers, CBE, MC, who rose from infantry private in the First World War to brigadier and Director of Military Intelligence ...
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