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"Eggs-a-Cook!" The Story of the Forty-Fourth: War as the Digger Fought It
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Eggs-a-Cook! relates the experience of the 44th Battalion in France during 1916-1918. Raised at Claremont, Western Australia in February 1916, Longmore details their experiences in the Armentieres sector, 'Plugstreet,' Messines, Broodseinde Ridge, Paschendale, Corbie, Hamel, Bray, and the Somme ...
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1942: Australia's Greatest Peril
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1942 was the year of Australia's greatest peril as the nation awaited invasion from Darwin. Darwin was devastated by bombing, Australian ships were torpedoed within sight of our coast, midget Japanese submarines attacked shipping in Sydney Harbour ...
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A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army
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This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much ...
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A Collection of Maps from the Great War (WWI) Era
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This collection of 155 Great War vintage maps has been assembled to provide the Great War researcher with access to maps which can be used to better understand and follow the geographical progress of the various military movements as well as the geo-political configuration of the countries affected by the hostilities ...
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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 Guide to Military History on the Internet: A Comprehensive Introduction for Genealogists and Military Historians
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There are thousands of websites devoted to all aspects of military history from ancient the Battle of Hastings to the modern Gulf. This unique book helps you find the ones that will help with your research. Includes websites relevant for researching British, American, Australian and
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A History of the Scottish Highlands: Highland Clans and Highland Regiments
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This very comprehensive work on the history of the Scottish Highlands was based on the text of Dr James Browne’s popular work published some 30 years earlier ...
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A List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion 1745-1746
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Originally published 1890, this publication consists of lists of those accused of joining the uprising of 1745-46 and taken prisoner after the battle of Culloden Moor in the early spring of 1746. Listed alphabetically by county, details are name, occupation, clan, residence, parish ...
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A Man of Intelligence: The Life of Captain Eric Nave, Australian Codebreaker Extraordinary
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Eric Nave, an Australian naval officer, was the first to unravel Japanese naval telegraphy and to break Imperial Japanese Navy codes. Yet few Australians have ever heard of ...
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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 Most Unusual Regiment: A History of Melbourne University Regiment
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Melbourne University Regiment approaches the centenary of its foundation as part of an Army changed beyond recognition in the past hundred years. This is a definitive history of this Regiment ...
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A Short History of 9 Field Company R.A.E. [A.I.F.] 1939-1945
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During the Pacific War, this Australian Army unit was one of eight engineer and one Australian infantry companies, that was subjected to the extremes of climatic and geographic conditions in New Guinea. The project was to build the 'Bulldog-Wau Road' from the south coast ...
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A Short History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 42nd, 73rd 1725-1907
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History of the regiment compiled from regimental records of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, the Perthshire Militia and from the official histories of the 42nd and 73rd .
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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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A Thousand Men at War: A History of the 2/16th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF
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The 2/16th Australian Infantry Battalion had an outstanding record during the course of the Second World War, both in the Middle East during 1941 and then the South-West Pacific from 1942 until 1945. First published in 1959, this book tells of the sacrifices of these men ...
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A Very Rude Awakening: The Night the Japanese Subs Came to Sydney Harbour
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Written at the pace of a thriller and based on new first-person account and previously unpublished official documents, 'A Very Rude Awakening' is a ground-breaking and myth-busting look at one of the most extraordinary stories ever told of Australia at war.
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A War at Home: A Comprehensive Guide to the First Japanese Attacks on Darwin
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A comprehensive guide to the first Japanese attacks on Darwin on 19th February 1942, written by Dr Tom Lewis, OAM. An essential reference work on this controversial subject that includes a full list of those killed as well as other detailed appendices ...
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Across the Sea to War: Australian and New Zealand Troop Convoys from 1865 Through Two World Wars to Korea and Vietnam
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Australia and New Zealand have a proud record of sending troops overseas to fight for Great Britain when conflicts have arisen over the years. This book chronicles the ...
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Active Service with Australia in the Middle East
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"An illustrated notebook on the life of Australians in the Middle Eastern theatre of war" is how the editors describe this book on the Australian Imperial Force during 1941. Almost all of the reports are from men on active service – those actually engaged in the campaigns ...
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AIF Unit Histories of the Great War 1914-1918
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The recent upsurge in Australia's military history has seen the availability of many military records online. However, many people have difficulty in wading through military jargon and need a more readable source of what their relatives battalion or unit was doing during the Great War of 1914-1918. This is where the unit histories become a most valuable resource tool ...
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Air Force Australia-S
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Air Force Records: A Guide for Family Historians
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This practical and accessible guide shows how to explore British air forces – and ancestors who served in them – through the wealth of material at The National Archives and elsewhere. All aspects of air force records are considered from operational record book and unit war diaries to individual service records, medal rolls, gallantry awards and casualty lists ...
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All Men Back--All One Big Mistake
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An amazing story told by Bill Bee who was a signalman on the flag deck of HMAS Perth. He gives an eyewitness account of events leading up to the Java ...
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All the King's Enemies: A History of the 2/5th Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945
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Raised in Melbourne in October 1939, the 2/5th sailed for the Middle East in April 1940 and took part in Australia's first battle at Bardia in 1941. This is the history of a fine battalion and the men who served in it when the country and free world was in need ...
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All-Australia Memorial: Victoria
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A wonderful record, with a detail historical outline of the war from an Australian perspective, plus an extensive reference section and hundreds of biographies. All complemented by thousands of photos, many of Victorians who served ...
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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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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin February 1942
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The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February 1942 ...
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Ancient Scottish Weapons and Highland Targets and Shields
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This CD-ROM contains facsimile copies of two of James Drummond's books "Ancient Scottish Weapons" and "Highland Targets and Shields". Without question, Drummond's Ancient Scottish Weapons is one of the most important guides to Highland armour, arms and equipment, shields, swords, dirks ...
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Animal Heroes: Thrilling Ture Stories of Animals who Haved Worked and Played Alongside Australia's Fighting Forces
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This stimulus for this book came when Anthony Hill first heard the true story of Horrie the Wog Dog. As he explains in his background notes, he then became aware ...
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Anzac Book 1916
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This book of Anzac was produced in the lines at Anzac on Gallipoli in the closing weeks of 1915. Practically every word was written beneath the shelter of a waterproof sheet or of a roof of sandbags - in the trenches. It contains information such as: the Landing at Gallipoli, Glimpses of Anzac ...
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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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Anzac Legacies: Australian and the Aftermath of War
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This book offers new perspectives on how Australians have lived with, and continue to live with, the legacies of war. Importantly, it demonstrates how the wars of the last century have had an enduring impact on generations of Australians well beyond the end of battlefield conflict ...
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Anzac Memorial
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'The Anzac Memorial’ is a comprehensive compilation of names and primary source material from the First World War, and is compiled as a memorial to the Anzacs who fought and died in the Great War.
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Army Records: A Guide for Family Historians
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An accessible, up to the minute guide for all those interested in the British Army or ancestors with an Army past ...
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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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As Rough as Bags: The History of the 6th Battalion, 1st AIF, 1914-1919
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The history of the 6th Battalion is vividly described as supplements by the extensive use of diaries, letters, interviews with veterans, and photographs, many of which have never been published before. The inclusion of many appendices makes this history a notable addition to Australian military literature ...
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As You Were 1946
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This is "the first of a new series of post-war Service volumes which will provide a contemporary record of developments in the Australian Navy, Army, and Air Force" ...
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As You Were 1947
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As You Were: A cavalcade of events with the Australian Services from 1788 to 1947, "adds another volume to the story of the Australian Navy, Army and Air Force which was continued in As You Were 1946 from the volumes published during the First and Second World Wars" ...
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As You Were 1948
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As You Were: with the Australian Services at Home and Overseas from 1788 to 1948 is the third volume of the As You Were series published by the Australian War Memorial. The fifty-nine stories are all contributed by service and ex-service personnel ...
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As You Were 1949
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As You Were 1949 continues the service rendered by its predecessors. Its aim is to recall and to record the courage and humour, the boredom and the achievements, the travel and adventure, deeds and misdeeds, and, above all, the good comradeship of the Services during the war years ...
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As You Were 1950
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As You Were 1950—fifth in its line—has been made possible by the collaboration of the ex-Service men and women who have supplied the stories, articles, verse and drawings which appear in it ...
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Attleborough in War Time, 1919
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Attleborough, a small town situated in the county of Norfolk, who's population in 1919 was 2500. From this town a total of 550 of the town's men served in the armed forces. This book provides a record of the contribution this little town made in the Great War, both at the front and within its own environs ...
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Aussie Soldier: Prisoners of War
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Almost 35,000 Australian men and women were taken as prisoners during the Boer War, WW1, WW2 and the Korean War. For many, their greatest victory would be in the simple act of surviving. The heartfelt stories are very personal journeys. You will relive the capture, living conditions, escape attempts, punishments ...
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Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine
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'Aussie' was a popular Australian soldiers magazine during and after World War One.
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Australia Under Attack: The Bombing of Darwin 1942
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The morning of 19 February 1942 saw the grim face of war on Australian shores for the first time as a Japanese task force attacked Darwin. Two hundred and forty-three ...
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Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire: Western Australia
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Containing nearly 1500 biographies of soldiers who fought in WWI. A great resource for those interested in the the war and the people who fought in it especially from Western Australia.
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Australian and New Zealand Honours and Awards of the Boer War 1899-1902
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This is an amazing collection of biographical details of over 500 Australian and New Zealand officers and men who won honours and awards in the 2nd Anglo-Boer War. Information geerally provided is: surname, given names, year of birth, year of death, rank, battalion, and details relating to the whole military life of that person ...
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Australian Army Campaign Series No. 1: Battle of Crete
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Between 20 May and 1 June 1941 WWII came to the Greek island of Crete. The Commonwealth defenders consisted of Australian, NZ and British refugees from the doomed Greek Campaign who had not recovered from defeat ...
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Australian Army Campaign Series No. 10: The August Offensive at Anzac, 1915
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The August Offensive or ‘Anzac Breakout’ at Gallipoli 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 Nek, Chunuk Bair, The Farm, Hill Q and Hill 971 ...
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Australian Army Campaign Series No. 2: The Western Desert Campaign 1940-41
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While the North African campaign has been studied in detail over the years, much of this study has been dedicated to the battles between the British 8th Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps. There has been little serious study of Wavell's campaign against Italian forces in 1940-41, nor of the role played by the Australian 6th Division in the eventual Italian defeat ...
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Australian Army Campaign Series No. 3: Australian Military Operations in Vietnam
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From 1962 to 1972 Australia joined the US in fighting in the jungles of South Vietnam. Over 50,000 Australians served in Vietnam, 519 lost their lives, and the conflict ended ignominiously in the insurgents' victory ...
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Australian Army Campaign Series No. 4: Exploring Gallipoli: An Australian Army Battlefield Guide
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This book and CD is intended to provide both practical touring information for the independent traveller to Gallipoli, as a guide to the amazing First World War Anzac battlefields. It includes detailed information on the key sites at Gallipoli ...
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Australian Army Campaign Series No. 5: Malaya
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When Imperial Japan unleashed the Pacific War in December 1941, Australian forces went into action, as part of a larger British Empire force, to defend Malaya and Singapore. Australia's principal contribution to defending Malaya and Singapore was the 8th Division ...
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Australian Army Campaign Series No. 6: Wau 1942-1943
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Based on a detailed analysis of the battlefield, this book outlines how the victory at Wau was achieved and demonstrates how determined leadership can turn the tide of battle. Throughout most of 1942, the Australian Army fought a series of commando actions ...
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Australian Army Campaign Series No. 7: Australia's Palestine Campaign
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Apart from the battle of Beersheeba, the Palestine Campaign received little attention in Australia compares to Gallipoli and the Western Front. With nearly two mounted divisions engaged against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East for almost three years the Palestine Campaign was Australia's longest running militarily significant endeavour of the First World War after the Western Front
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Australian Army Campaign Series No. 8: The Battle of Fromelles 1916
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The Battle of Fromelles - until recently largely forgotten in the accounts of Australia's experiences in World War One - remains the single bloodiest day in terms of numbers of soldiers killed, wounded or missing, in Australia's military history. The battle now is also one of the most controversial military episodes in Australian history ...
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Australian Army Campaign Series No. 9: The Battle of Bardia
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On the morning of 3 January 1941, Australians of the 6th Division led an assault against the Italian colonial fortressvillage of Bardia in Libya, not far from the Egyptian-Libyan frontier.
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Australian Awards Vietnam 1962 to 1991
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It is appropriate, with the increasing interest in the Vietnam war and the appreciation of the sacrifices made by all who took part, that this book of honours ...
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Australian Contingent: History of Patriotic Movement in New South Wales
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The story of the Australia (New South Wales) Contingent in the Soudan War from March to June 1885.
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Australian Frontier Wars 1788-1838
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From the Swan River to the Hawkesbury, and from the sticky Arnhem Land mangrove to the soft green hills of Tasmania, this book describes the major conflicts fought on the ...
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Australian Hospital Ship Centaur: The Myth of Immunity
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"Jap Sub Sinks Hospital Ship!" screamed the world's press in mid-May 1943, after Prime Minister John Curtin and General Douglas B. MacArthur announced the loss of the AHS 'Centaur' off ...
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Australian Soldiers' Pocket Book 9th edition
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This book was published for the intention to provide Australian soldiers with a range of useful points, suggestions and information about the requirements of war service and also about a range of issues including health, personal conduct and other personal habits ...
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Australian War Photographs: A Pictorial Record From November 1917 to The End of the War
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The Australian War Photographs, contains photographs from the end of the year 1917 to the end of the Great War ...
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Australians at War
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Australia has a proud record of wartime service, and many of the individuals who fought, suffered, died and attained victory on our behalf were willing volunteers. 'Australians at War' charts ...
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Australians at War: A Pictorial History
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The part played by Australians in fighting aggression during a century of conflict is a proud chapter in our history. Remote from the world’s storm centres, Australian have nevertheless been ...
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Australians Remembered Map: Australia's Involvement in Military Conflicts Since Federation
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First published in 2002, and now updated and released as a second edition, this brilliant map features a political world map showing all the conflicts in which Australians have been ...
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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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Battle of Hastings-S
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Battle Scarred: The 47th Battalion in the First World War
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‘The dead and wounded of the 47th lay everywhere underfoot’ ... With these words Charles Bean, Australia’s Official War Historian, described the battlefield of Dernancourt on the morning of the 5th of April, 1918, The 47th Battalion fought in some of the First World War’s bloodiest battles.
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Battles Fought in Yorkshire
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Written by Alex. D.H. Leadman, published in 1891, this is a historical and topographical series of papers on the Yorkshire battles drawn from original and contemporary sources ...
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Baxter's Guide: Biographical Sources in the India Office Records
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First published in 1979, and now in it's 3rd edition, this book become an essential reference work for all who research the history of their families who served in India. It brings together a clear set of references to the enormous number of biographical sources at the India Office Records ...
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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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Beersheba: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War
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In October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade took part in the 'last great cavalry charge'. Waving bayonets overhead, they charged across six kilometers of open ground, cheating bombs and shells before capturing the Turkish trenches. But there is also a very dark episode ...
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Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-18
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The tunnellers' war still remains one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of the Great War. In Ypres, the secret struggle beneath no man's land became one of engineering and science ...
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Beneath Hill 60: The Australian Miners' Secret Warfare Beneath the Trenches of the Western Front
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The story of the Australian miners and soldiers who tunnelled under Hill 60 near Ypres in World War I and eventually broke through to create a new frontline and enable the march to Berlin ...
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Beyond Adversity: 'U' Company, 15th Battalion 1941-1942
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In Nov 1941, about 100 university students began their short-term compulsory military training with the 15th Infantry Battalion. Most were aged 19-22, had daytime jobs and were students from the arts, commerce and law faculties. Their military training was due to end in Feb 1942, but by April 1942 ...
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Bitter Victory: The Death of HMAS Sydney
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At 1340 on 11 September 1941, Armistice Day, HMAS 'Sydney' sailed from Fremantle on a routine escort mission. 'Sydney' should have returned on the afternoon on 20 November, but the ...
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Black and Gold: The History of the 29th Battalion 1915-1918
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After early training at Broadmeadows, the 29th Battalion set sail for Egypt, where the troops spent some months on garrison duty at the Suez Canal prior to embarking ...
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Blood Brothers: The ANZAC Genesis
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By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat. With Queen Victoria's British forces stretched thinly across the globe, the New Zealand colony had to look to its sister colonial states in Australia for support ...
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Bloody Gallipoli: The New Zealanders' Story
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2005 marked 90 years since the beginning of the Gallipoli campaign. 'Bloody Gallipoli' is a highly readable and often tragic account of this doomed campaign from the New Zealand perspective. Drawing on personal diaries and reproducing over 350 photographs ...
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Bloody Provost
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The first comprehensive account of the office of Provost Marshal. The brutality of Wellington's Provost Marshals in the Peninsula earned them the nickname 'Bloody Provost'. Their cruelties were legendary, especially ...
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Boer War Men of Queanbeyan-Braidwood Region: Adventurers or Patriots?
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The Boer War drew men from all states of Australia and the region around Michelago - Queanbeyan - Bungendore - Braidwood - Majors Creek - Araluen was no ...
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Bold, Steady, Faithful: The History of the 6th Battalion, the Royal Melbourne Regiment 1854-1993
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The 6th Battalion, the Royal Melbourne Regiment traces its origins back to the Goldrush days of 1854, when the colony of Victoria was faced with rebellion at Ballarat and a ...
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Bomber Boys: The Ruhr, The Dambusters and Bloody Berlin
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In 1943 the RAF began a bombing campiagn against Germany, of an intensity new in the history of war. Kevin Wilson has interviewed hundreds of former airmen including the surviving Dambusters, about their daily lives in 1943 ...
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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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Bramshott Souvenir Magazine 1918
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Produced as an unashamed piece of personal nostalgia, and aimed at Canadian troops on their way into action this unique and very rare publication gives us a glimpse into one of Canada's major training camps in Europe ...
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Brave Lads: 3RAR in South Vietnam
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'Brave Lads' is a long-awaited unit history that fills a gap in the Australian military experience in South Vietnam. The 3RAR first served in Vietnam in 1968 and later had a second tour of duty in 1971. This history pays tribute to the Brave Lads of 3RAR in their tumultuous year
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Bridging the Gap: The 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment in Timor 1999-2000
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In 1999, UNAMET was tasked to conduct the popular consultation in East Timor. The independence vote was overwhelming and as violence escalated, the staff withdrew and the UN ...
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British Battalions in France and Belgium 1914
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There is no doubt that the popularity of the battlefield of the First World War as places of pilgrimage, far from decreasing with the passage of time, actually increases year ...
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British Campaign Medals 1815-1914
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This book outlines the medals issued to British soldiers and sailors for military service across the globe. At a time of imperial expansion British forces were almost constantly in action--against major powers ...
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British Campaign Medals 1914-2005
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This book surveys the medals awarded to British Personnel for military service around the world and in two world wars. During the course of the twentieth century the role of ...
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British Gallantry Awards 1855-2000
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Since ancient times soldiers have been honoured for gallantry in battle. Over the years and in different societies such honours have taken many forms but since the 1850s specific acts ...
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Chased by the Sun: The Australians in Bomber Command in WWII
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The glow of the sun was frightening and it chased them home... Bill Brill began losing height to escape the sky growing lighter above and behind him. But the sun ...
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Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth Memorial Registers 1914-1921
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After the Great War, councils and local parishes erected a lot of monuments as a tribute to those who fought and/or to those who didn't return. This CD contains lists of officers and men of the Royal Navy who died at sea. Each entry includes: name, rank, place of service ...
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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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Clan Warfare in the Scottish Highlands
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After 1400 Scottish families competed for area supremacy or fought each other over various conflicts and feuds. There was no central authority to impose order, and warfare into the 18th century could be endemic on a local scale. This book details the competition between clans ...
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Clive Caldwell, Air Ace
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Clive Caldwell was officially attributed with 271/2 victories and became Australia's highest scoring fighter pilot in World War II. In addition, he became an ave in both the Middle East and Pacific theatres - the only Australian pilot to attain this status. This biography is a celebration of Caldwell's military achievements.
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Cobbers in Khaki: The History of the 8th Battalion 1914-1918
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The 8th Infantry Battalion was formed in August 1914, and recruited from Ballarat, central and western Victoria. Originally led by Lieutenant Colonel Bolton, the 8th Battalion served with distinction in Egypt, Gallipoli, France and Belgium ...
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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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Conquest and Settlement: the 21st Regiment (Royal North British Fusiliers) in Western Australia 1833-1840
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This is not a military history in the usual sense. It is not dedicated to campaigns fought, won or lost. It is an attempt to chronicle the part played by ...
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Convoys up the Track: A History of 121st Australian General Transport Company (AIF) 1941-1946
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'Convoys up the Track' is the story of 121 Australian General Transport Company (AIF) which served a vast expanse of Australia from Adelaide to Eucla, Mount Gambier to ...
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Corps of Royal Australian Engineers in the Second World War 1939-45
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This publication describes the work and achievements of the Royal Australian Engineers throughout the duration of WWII. It includes a list of Engineers involved in campaigns during the war, a list of those who were presented with decorations and awards, and a memoriam list of those who lost their lives ...
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Country Victoria's Own: 150 Year History of the 8th/7th Battaliion Royal Victoria Regiment and its Predecessors 1858-2008
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The history of the 8/7 RAR has its roots as far back at the Ballarat Rifle Regiment and the Bendigo Rifle Regiment, both formed in 1858. 'Country Victoria's Own' traces the history of the Ballarat infantry and the units in major cities and towns that form its 'predecessors' ...
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Crossing the Wire: The Untold Stories of Australian POWs in Battle and Captivity During WWI
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Drawing on previous inaccessible records – including interviews, private papers and unpublished manuscripts. An unknown future was certainly what awaited those mostly young soldiers as POWs – whether it be exposed to their own artillery fire while working for the enemy ‘behind the line’; in a hospital ward somewhere; or behind wire in a camp, in Germany. What remained constant, was their desire to be free – to get back to their family and loved ones in Australia.
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Cruel Conflict: The Triumph and Tragedy of HMAS Perth
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A 0100 on 1 March 1942, after several heroic battles, the HMAS 'Perth' sank off the coast of Java. Less than half of the ship's company survived. 'Perth' lost 357 sailors and a further 320 became prisoners of war, 106 of whom were to later die in captivity ...
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Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and her Crew
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Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth. The definitive biography of the Australian cruiser HMAS Perth, and the brave men who sailed with her.
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Crumps and Camouflets: Australian Tunnelling Companies on the Western Front
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Within the vast array of Great War literature there is little reference to the Australian tunnelling companies. Damien Finlayson wrote this book to redress that, by telling the story of the tunnellers who, like their brother soldiers, fought a daily duel with the enemy over the wire, while coping with the fear of a sudden and violent death ...
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Culloden 1746: The Highland Clans' Last Charge
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On 25 July 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed with a handful of supporters on the west coast of Scotland. This marked the beginning of the '45 ...
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Culloden and the '45
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There is little doubt that the '45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it culminated was certainly ...
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Cycling to War: The History of the AIF/NZ Cyclist Corps 1916-19
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'Cycling to War' looks at the role played by the two Anzac Corps Cyclist Battalions in 1916-17, and the Australian Corps and New Zealand cyclists units in 1918, when during the final months of the war, cyclists became mounted infantry ...
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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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Dating Old Army Photographs
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A lot can be learned from a photograph, and the same goes for military photographs. Even if you have no military knowledge, the author takes you through the a head-to-toe examination of British military uniform and accoutrements identifying possible dating clues ...
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Defenders of Australia: The Third Australian Division 1916-1991
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From the nation's founding in 1901, the primary means of Australia's defence has been its citizen soldier. In times of peace and war, the Australian Army and the ...
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Digging for Diggers: A Guide to Researching an Australian Soldier of the Great War, 1914-1918
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This book provides a step-by-step guide to finding, interpreting and appreciating the stories of those Australians who served in World War I. It shows the research pathways, and ...
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Discovering Battlefields of England and Scotland
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The battlefields of Britain are a strangely neglected part of the British heritage. A few, such as Bosworth and Culloden, have visitor centres, and efforts have been made ...
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Discovering British Military Badges and Buttons
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This book examines the development of the various styles of military head-dress badge from 1751, when the use of private crests and badges was forbidden, to the first ...
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Discovering English County Regiments
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A warm regard for the British soldier, the values he served and the regimental traditions that nourished his humanity underlines the information collected in this book. It gives ...
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Echoes of Anzac: The Voice of Australians at War
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This book consists of the words of ordinary Australian soldiers. Ditties and poems have been tossed about from one soldier to another, sometimes even from one war to ...
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Eyewitness in the Crimea
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Fairmile Ships of the Royal Australian Navy: Volume 1
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During World War Two, it was decided that Australia needed the British-designed Fairmile boats to provide a fast craft for convoy escorts patrolling and other duties. Many were ...
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Fairmile Ships of the Royal Australian Navy: Volume 2
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During World War Two, the Royal Australian Navy decided to employ Fairmile ships to provide a fast craft for escort duties, anti-submarine activities, carrying commandos and raiding Japanese-held bases. Many were ...
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Famous Regiments of the British Army Volume 1: A Pictorial Guide and Celebration
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Thirty five of the most famous regiments ever featured - their battle honours, their badges, their most famous sons - and the stories of the actions of Victoria Cross holders. Each regiment's section is accompanied by artworks and photos, illustrating insignia, uniforms and soldiers in action ...
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Fighting Nineteenth: History of the 19th Infantry Battalion AIF 1915-1918
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Almost 5000 men served in the 19th Battalion, AIF during its three and half years as one of the four battalions of the 5th Brigade, 2nd Division.Using official war diaries and input from individual diaries, letters and photos provided by families, the authors have shown how men served ...
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Fighting the Kimberley: The 3rd Australian Corps Kimberley Guerilla Warfare Group 1942-1943
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Over the last 60 or so years many have talked of this secret group but due to a thorough destruction of files very little information could be obtained. Now the blackout has been lifted by access to personal reminiscences, diaries and photos ...
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Flak: True Stories From the Men Who Flew in World War Two
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Michael Veitch has had a life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War and the men that crewed them. Over the years his experience taught him ...
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Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters
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For centuries they have faced capture, torture, even death, to be with the ones they love. For centuries they have been the unsung heroines of war. This is their story. Spanning ...
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For Empire: Victoria's First Expeditionary Force to the Motherland
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Facsimile. A reprint of the souvenir booklet published in September 1914, to acknowledge the departure of the Victorian unit en route to Egypt. The book has photos of every officer ...
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For Valour: Victoria Cross and Medal of Honor Battles
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The history of the Victoria Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor is a history of heroism and sacrifice. Fascinating and awe-inspiring, from the battlefields of the Crimean War through to the Second World War, these are the stories behind some of the most remarkable feats of bravery ever recorded.
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Forever Forward: The History of the 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF 1940-45
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During its lifetime the 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion took on the strength of 151 officers and 2509 men. Of this total, about one in three members of the battalion became ...
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Forgotten Men: The Australian Army Veterinary Corps 1909-1946
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Forgotten Men is the long overdue account of the significant contribution to the Australian Army of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps in two world wars. One of the army’s smallest and least recognised corps, its humble beginnings and quiet work in the background belie the crucial role of the Corps ...
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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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Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain
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'It is more powerful than any drama, more convincing than any fiction'. Drawing material from London's Imperial War Museum's extensive archive, the author brings together voices from both sides ...
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Forward Undeterred: The History of the 23rd Battalion 1915-1918
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Forward Undeterred' describes the formation of the 23rd Battalion in early 1915, and its training at Broadmeadows and Egypt prior to landing at Gallipoli in September 1915. For the next ...
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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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From the Australian Front 1917
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This publication includes over 120 pages of photographs and illustrations which depict the range of experiences of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corp in France. These include photos of the soldiers on the battle fronts, in the different seasons experienced, and in villages and towns such as Flanders ...
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From the Home Front to the Front Line: Images of the Great War
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Australia's greatest social upheaval, occurred between the years of 1914 and 1918. Few, if any families at all, remained untouched by the war, everyone seemed to know someone ...
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From the Rideau to the Rhine and Back
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The week by week account of the trials, tribulations, disappointments and glories of a group of Canadian engineers as they fought their way across Europe in support of the Canadian fighting machine ...
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From Trench and Troopship: The Experience of the Australian Imperial Force 1914-1919
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The shipboard Between 1914 and 1919, every troopship leaving Australia or retuning to it produced a shipboard newspaper -- the first recorded was ‘The Latrine leader and W.C. Chronicle’, produced ...
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Fromelles
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On 19 July 1916, in the northern French village of Fromelles, Australia suffered its worst-ever military defeat when a British officer ordered 15,000 of our best and bravest to go 'over the top' and attack the German lines. Eight hours later, more than 5500 Diggers lay dead or wounded ...
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Gallipoli
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As a relatively young nation, there are few things that define us as a people more than the wars Australian's have fought in, and, in particular, the bloody battle on ...
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Gallipoli Diaries: The Anzacs' Own Story Day by Day
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For the first time, the Gallipoli story is told in the words of the ordinary soldier fighting in the trenches, day by day starting with the landing on 25 April 1915 fright up to the last day on 20 December 1915 ...
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Gallipoli Doctors
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In what is a 'who's who' of the medical profession at war, LtCol Likeman has described in great detail the lives of the AIF doctors who laboured under harsh conditions at Gallipoli to tens to the wounded and sick. Each mini-biography details the professional life of the doctor concerned prior to the war and after, in addition, where doctors also served of the Western Front or in Palestine, their service history is also recorded.
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Gallipoli Encyclopedia
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Gallipoli has for over 90 years been a symbol of Australia's emergence to nationhood. The audacious gallantry of young Australians storming across the beach at Anzac Cove and then climbing ...
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Gallipoli Sniper: The Life of Billy Sing
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The Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers, The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both sides. The most successful & feared sniper of the Gallipoli campaign wa a member of the Light Horseman from Queensland, Billy Sing.
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Gallipoli: Attack from the Sea
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The Gallipoli campaign of 1914–15 is one of the most discussed events of the First World War. Of particular fascination, and until now largely overlooked in historical accounts, are the considerable naval dimensions of the campaign ...
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Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore
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It was an adventure to die for. A daring attempt to force the Dardanelles and capture the Turkish capital Constantinople. For the Allies it was Trojan War and crusade combined ...
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Gallipoli: The Final Battles and Evacuation of Anzac
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This book is the first book since Charles Bean's 'Official History' to provide a details narrative of the bloody and tragic battle for Hill 60 ...
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Great War Lives: A Guide for Family Historians
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WWI is one of the most popular areas for historical research. More records are available to researchers whose relatives served during the war, and Paul Reed’s new book is the perfect guide to how to locate and understand these sources - and get the most out of them. Following the lives of 12 servicemen ...
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H.M.A.S.
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The first of a series of four books published by the Australian War Memorial on the Royal Australian Navy during World War II.
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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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Hell's Heroes: The Forgotten Story of the Worst P.O.W. Camp in Japan
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This is the story of the POW camp that never was - so dubbed by one old soldier because the atrocities that occurred there went largely unreported at the time. In his gripping history of the men who were POWs in Japan, the author draws on the diaries and memories of those who survived ...
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Heroes Have Wings: The Stories of Australian Airmed in the Great Air Battles of World War Two
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Peter Firkins is a West Australian who volunteered for service in the RAAF during World War II at the age of seventten. He completed a tour of operations on No.
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History of the 10th Battalion AIF
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Written by Arthur Limb in 1919, this book gives a brief history of the 10th Battalion of the AIF – 'South Australia’s quota to the Australian Expeditionary Force' ...
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History of the 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion C.E.F., November 1914-June 1919
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This is the story of the the 31st Battalion, otherwise known as the Alberta Regiment, which was raised in November 1914 and took part in battles at Flanders, Ypres and the Salient, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele ...
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History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France
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Republished here on fully-searchable CD-ROM, the History of the Irish Brigades is a fascinating history; containing more the 650 pages, extensive biographies on the Brigades' commanding officers and containing a comprehensive Index of the major personalities, battles, campaigns and place names, this publication must appeal to ...
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History of the Royal Australian Army Pay Corps in Victoria
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This book records the history of the Pay Corps from its beginnings in the Colonial period through the Boer War, the Great War 1914-1918, the Second World War, the post-War period, and Korea, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam as well ...
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HMAS MK II
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This is the second of a series of four books published by the Australian War Memorial on the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. Written and prepared by serving personnel of the RAN in 1943 ...
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HMAS Mk III
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This is the third of a series of four books published by the Australian War Memorial on the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. Written and prepared by serving personnel of the RAN in 1944, it presents "a further unfolding of the story of this war" and the part played by sea power.
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HMAS Mk IV
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In this, the last book in the HMAS series, serving personnel have again recorded stories of the battles, experiences and achievements of the RAN during the war. At last the veil of anonymity that has cloaked the contributors has been lifted and the final pages of this book record a full list of pseudonyms and names ...
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HMAS Sydney (II)
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The fate of HMAS Sydney (II), last sighted just before Christmas in 1941 following a battle with a German raider, has been Australia's most enduring maritime mysteries. Then on 16 March 2009 her wreckage was discovered, resolving much of the 67-year-old uncertainty and controversy surrounding the disappearance of the ship and the 674...
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Home Front 1914-1918: How Britain Survived the Great War
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The war years brought far-reaching changes in Britain, as ordinary people - from schoolchildren to the elderly, ladies of leisure to coalminers - struggled to adapt to new conditions and an often perilous world ...
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How to Trace Your Military Ancestors in Australia and New Zealand
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Do you have a soldier in the family? Most families do. From the mass recruitment drives of the two world wars, right back to the days when a career in ...
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Ike's Marines: 36th Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945
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This reprint of the 1967 unit history of the 36th Australian Infantry Battalion again makes available the proud story of this unit. They played a part in the Kokoda campaign ...
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In the Anzac Spirit: The 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment/NZ (ANZAC) South Vietnam 1968-1969
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In the Anzac Spirit' vividly describes the conditions under which 4RAR/NZ fought, and demonstarted the co-operation received from the other arms and forces involved in the war.p Few books have so ...
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In the Footsteps of Private Lynch
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Imagine this. You are a country boy and just eighteen. The war has been raging for two years and because of your age, you have not been eligible for enlistment. Your mates older by a few months are joining up and disappearing ...
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In the Line of Fire: Real Stories of Australians at War, from Gallipoli to Vietnam
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Over 100,000 Australians have laid down their lives in the service of their country over the past 100 years. Conflicts including the two world wars, Korea and Vietnam ...
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Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia 1942
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1942 was a key year in Australia's history. As its people had so long feared, White Australia, an outpost of empire, seemed about to be invaded by the Japanese. In that one year, Darwin was bombed, submarines torpedoed ships in Sydney Harbour ...
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Ireland's Memorial Records World War I 1914-1918
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The objective of these volumes was to preserve the names of over 49,000 Irishmen who lost their lives fighting in the Great War (World War I 1914-1918). The ...
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Irish Army Lists 1661-1685
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Much of the information contained in the Irish Army Lists, 1661-1685 was taken from the Calendars and Reports of the Marquis of Ormond MSS, but it also draws a plethora of information from the Irish State Papers, as well as the King's Letter and Entry Books.
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Irish Heroes in the First World War
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This CD contains pictures and biographies of soldiers who earned the Victory Cross and Honours. These include background, career and family information with details on the circumstances in which their awards were earned ...
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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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Japanese Submarine Raiders 1942: A Maritime Mystery
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Just over three months after the surprise air raid over Darwin in 1942, Australians were once again shaken when the Japanese launched a surprise midget submarine attack on ...
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Jungle Warfare With the Australian Army in the South West Pacific
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'Jungle Warfare' is the fourth book in the series on the Australian Army during World War II. It tells the story of the events in the jungle, mountains and swamps of New Guinea. Again the stories were penned by those actively serving bringing the individual's perspective on the war. ...
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Keep the Men Alive: Australian POW Doctors in Japanese Captivity
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The moving and remarkable stories of the 106 Australian doctors who were prisoners of war under the Japanese in World War II ...
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Khaki and Green
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Khaki and Green includes "reports of the two major campaigns fought by Australian troops - the battle for Papua and the closing stages of the fighting at El Alamein" ...
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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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Kitchener's Lost Boys: From the Playing Fields to the Killing Fields
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In the early days of the World War 1, Lord Kitchener made his famous appeal for volunteers to join the New Army. Men flocked to recruiting offices to enlist, and on some days thousands soldiers responded to his call. With a minimum age of eighteen required, many younger boys came to enlist, many were turned away, but a lot were illegally signed up ...
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Kokoda
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Peter FitzSimons weaves together the extraordinary story of Kokoda. For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know the names of the ...
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Kokoda to the Sea: A History of the 1942 Campaign in Papua
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The book is the first substantial overview of the Kokoda and Gona campaigns. It discusses how the Australian government neglected Papua prior to the Japanese invasion; the conflict between Blamey ...
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Let Enemies Beware: The History of the 2/15th Battalion 1940-1945
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This is a history of the 2/15th Battalion, written by those who experienced it. Maps, photographs and nominal roll and honour rolls are all included to make this the definitive history of this battalion ...
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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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Life in Wellington's Army-S
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Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa 1899-1902
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On 29 November 1900 Lord Roberts handed over the command in South Africa to Kitchener, convinced that only some 'police work' still remained to be done. However, within a fortnight, the war escalated geographically as well as in intensity, and Kitchener had to ask for more troops. This book contains 115 letters written by or to Kitchener ...
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Loyalists in Arms 1775-1783: A Short History of the British American Regiments
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This publications contains a short history of the British American Regiments in the American Revolution, togehter with the Roll of Officers ...
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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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Major and Mrs Holt's Battle Map of Gallipoli
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A full colour, double-sided, fold-out battle map of Gallipoli. It is a modern road map, which also shows contours, war cemeteries, forts/ramparts, guns/emplacements, battle lines, memorials, museums, personalities on the ...
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Major and Mrs Holt's Battle Map of Somme
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A full colour, double-sided, fold-out map of the Battle of Somme. It is a modern road map, which also shows contours, war cemeteries, bunkers and trenches, demarcation stones, memorials, museums, ...
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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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McGill University at War: 1914-1918 and 1939-1945
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A full and detailed account of the activities and contributions of this world famous university and those of its staff and students to the allied efforts through both World Wars ...
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Men of Mont St Quentin: Between Victory and Death
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On 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five more were wounded, one of whom died six weeks later. The survivors returned from war, to live the next sixty-odd years in ...
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Men of the Ninth: A History of the Ninth Australian Field Ambulance 1916-1994
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This absorbing account of the work of the 9th Field Ambulance over a 78 year period from its inception in 1916, through to its disbandment in 1994 ...
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Military Barracks
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Military barracks have played an important part in the social as well as the military history of Britain. They have served many purposes, being homes, training establishments and recruitment depots, ...
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Military Customs
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After centuries of military service, the British regiments developed customs and traditions which often were so interwoven into the life of the regiment that the origin and, indeed, meaning of the custom was long since forgotten. This is a study of those customs ...
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Military in British India: Land Forces
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Milne Bay Radar: Unit History of the No. 37 Radar Station 1942-1945
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The author of this book, Tim Jones, was a member of No. 37 Radar Station and witnessed many of the events that befell the unit. He carried a camera with ...
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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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More Than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at Work in World War I
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More than Bombs and Bandages exposes the false assumption that military nurses only nursed. Based on author Kirsty Harris’ thesis, this is a book that is far removed from the ‘devotion to duty’ stereotyping offering an intriguing and sometimes gut-wrenching insight into the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) during WWI ...
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Muzzle Blast: Six Years of War with the 2/2 Australian Machine Gun Battalion, AIF
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'Muzzle Blast' was written by Bill Oakes, who served with the 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion during its Desert Campaigns and in new Guinea and was on Tarakan ...
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My Ancestor was a Royal Marine
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This new book fills a gap in the genealogical market and provides guidance in tracing ancestors who served in the Royal Marines. The book outlines the records available and where to find them and includes a chapter on the history of the service ...
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My Ancestor was in the British Army: A Guide to British Army Sources for Family Historians
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A new edition of this book, aiding the modern family historian in researching their ancestors who served in the British Army from 1660. The book covers the wealth of sources available in archives and online ...
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Myth Maker, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett: The Englishman who Sparked Australia's Gallipoli Legend
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It is one of the history's great ironies that an English war correspondent sparked Australia's Gallipoli legend.p An accident of fate placed Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett on the battleship 'London' ...
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Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar
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The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 was the most famous of the age of sail, and the last in the long series between Britain and France. It is famous ...
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Never Late: The 2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945
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This book tells the story of one of the finest battalions of the Second AIF. Formed in November 1939 the 2/9th was the first battalion raised in Queensland and it fought in Giarabub and Tobruk in North Africa, Milne Bay, Cape Endaiadere and Sanananda in Papua, on Shaggy Ridge ...
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New Zealanders and the Boer War
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A history of what New Zealanders did and saw in South Africa during the Boer War.
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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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No Quarter: Unlawful Killing and Surrender in the Australian War Experience 1915-18
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One of the rarely discussed aspects of the experience of soldiers in the First World War was the refusal to take prisoners during battle and in some cases ...
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Nominal Roll: Queensland Deaths WWII
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Divided into two parts, part 1 consists of a print out of the following information in columns: Number, Rank, Surname, Initials, Service, Date of Death, Cause of Death, Place of ...
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North Queensland: World War II 1942-1945
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This booklet has been compiled to complement the map (which is included) on North Queensland World War II. It attempts to cover, in bare detail, the activities of the Royal ...
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Not a Conquering Hero: The Siege of Tobruk, Battles of Milne Bay, Buna, Shaggy Ridge
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This book is an excellent first-hand account of some of the toughest battles fought by Australian soldiers in World War Two. Frank Rolleston was a cane ...
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Officers and Men in the First Canadian Contingent 1914
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A comprehensive listing of those who served in the First Canadian Contingent during the Great War.
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Officers of the Queensland Defence Force 1891-1898
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Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 Vol VII: Sinai and Palestine
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With a chronology, many photographs, detailed maps and sketches this is truly a records of the work of the Australian Light Horse. This is an amazing record of the Australian men and the battles they fought in WWI ...
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Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa 1899-1902
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Murray's record is a compilation of official Australian reports in regards to the war in South Africa. Contains a huge amount of logically presented facts, figures and statistics about the war, as well as the contingents and men involved.
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On Guard
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'On Guard' features the members of the Volunteer Defence Corps and their achievements during the four years since the Corps establishment ...
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On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime 1939-1945
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What really happened on the Australian home front during the Second World War? For the people of Melbourne these were years of social dislocation and increased government interference in all aspects of daily life. 'On the Home Front' is the story of their work, leisure and their fears for by 1942 ...
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On the Offensive: The Australian Army in the Vietnam War January 1967-June 1968
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On the Offensivei is the eighth volume of the Official History of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975, and the second of three volumes on Australian ground operations in ...
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On the Warpath: An Anthology of Australian Military Travel
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'Travel is a political as well as recreational action. And one of the main avenues of travel has been military, both in the excursionary exploits and warring armies ...
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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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One and All: A History of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1702-1959
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Hugo White gives us the history of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry from 1702 through until 1959. He was himself a Light Infantryman, and the book is ...
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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 Lorosae: 1st Battalion Group Operation in East Timor October 2000-April 2001
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This book is a collection of works primarily written by the soldiers of the 1st Battalion Group, and was produced with primary purpose of providing members of the ...
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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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Our Dear Old Battalion: The Story of the 7th Battalion AIF, 1914-1919
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When four Victoria Crosses were awarded to officers and men of the 7th Battalion following the Lone Pine attacks at Gallipoli during August 1915, the battalion's enviable fighting ...
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Our Secret War: Defending Malaysia Against Indonesian Confrontation 1964-1966
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Written by Brian Avery, a former officer of 4RAR, this book contains numerous maps and photos illustrating the campaign, plus a full Nominal Roll of those men who served with ...
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Our War: How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War
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Veterans voices from the Commonwealth tell how the Second World War changed their lives irreversibly and blew the British Empire apart.p Christopher Somerville skillfully links these personal testimonies to ...
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Outback Corridor
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'Outback Corridor' tells how hundreds of thousands of men and women made contact with Outback Australia by being part of the vital World War II Lines of Communication ...
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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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Pacific Fury: How Australia and Her Allies Defeated the Japanese
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'Pacific Fury' vividly portrays the barbarity, the sacrifice and the bravery of the Pacific War, from Pearl Harbor to Kokoda to Hiroshima. Peter Thompson presents, for the first time, an account of the conflict that places Australian voices and action at the heart of the struggle and recreates the battles of land, sea and air in a single volume like never before.
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Passchendaele: The Sacrificial Ground
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A compelling account of the battle for Passchendaele - from grand strategy at the highest levels right down to the experience of the ordinary infantrymen. In the autumn of 1917, ...
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Pilgrimage: A Travellers' Guide to Australia's Battlefields
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There has never been a book like 'Pilgrimage'. Journeying through time and place, the author visits the battlefields where Australians have fought in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Korea and East Timor and the stories of the key Australian battles ...
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Possums and Bird Dogs: Australian Army Aviation's 161 Reconnaissance Flight in South Vietnam
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Captain Bevan Smith's inadvertent broadcast about being hit, alerted the troops on the ground that a Viet Cong ambush had been triggered. The knuckles had been shot out ...
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RAAF at War: WWII Korea Malaya-S
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RAAF Flying Boats at War: The Way it Was
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Joe Leach was a member of the Militia before the war, but when the European conflict began, he applied to join the RAAF. Before long he was training as a Wireless ...
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RAAF Log
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The "RAAF Log" articles cover a wide range of battle areas and items of interest – Pacific Front, Milne Bay, Bismarck Sea Battle, Timor Treks, Beaufighters, War Against U-Boats, Spits and Typhies, ...
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RAAF Saga
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This 1944 volume presents "in broad outline the developments of the war in the air in which the RAAF participated in the past year - that will breathe the spirit of Air Force and provide the Service with its third souvenir" ...
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RAAF Victory Roll: The Royal Australian Airforce in its Sixth Year of War
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Looking back over six years of "tremendous effort and gallant service". The stories in Victory Roll tell of some of the exploits of the RAAF during the final year of the war ...
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Raids on Australia: 1942 and Japan's Plans for Australia
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In 1942 many Australians believed the invasion of Australia was imminent, and only the heroism of the Australian soldiers at Milne Bay and Kokoda saved the nation from Japanese occupation. However Japan had decided not to invade long before the raids on Darwin and Sydney and the struggle for New Guinea ...
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Remembering Korea: Australians in the War of 1950-53
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Now reprinted and updated this edition is illustrated with more than 70 photographs, includes a complete and updated Roll of Honour, and lists more than 18,000 Australians who served in Korea. 'Remembering Korea' is a fascinating chronicle of the Korean conflict and Australia's involvement in it ...
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Report of the Labour Commission to Ireland
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Published in 1921 the Report of the Labour Commission to Ireland, although a relatively brief publication of just 124 pages, is a thoroughly fascinating account of the War of Independence in Ireland, especially the conduct of the British Army and Auxiliary Forces ...
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Researching Ancestors in the East India Company Armies
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Until quite recently the records of the East India Company's European armies in India (1748-1861) were less well served with respect to finding aids than the records of their counterparts in India ...
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Researching British Military History on the Internet: The British Army and the Armies of the Commonwealth, Empire and Domionions
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The publication presents some if the best and well-known sites that can be used for researching those in the British Army both at home and abroad, as well as those armies from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa ...
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Researching British Military Medals
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There is one unique feature common to the scores of different military campaign medals awarded to British servicemen since the Napoleonic Wars - most of them are individually named to ...
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Researching South Australian Military Ancestors
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Military records provide a wealth of information for researchers, and are a useful source of information. But how do you go about finding and obtaining records? Covering South Australian military and their records, this booklet briefly covers the resources available, and how to access them ...
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Restore to Service: Unit History 4 RSU-482 Maintenance Squadron
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After every dramatic aircrash or emergency landing, men had to go out and retrieve what they could from the wreckage. In some cases the aircraft soon flew again, but in ...
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Roving Editors 1918
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A unique look at the the First World War through the eyes of a war correspondent ...
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Rural Australia and the Great War: From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga
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In the cities and in the countryside of Australia, the Great War of 1914-1918 marched to somewhat different tempos. The author evokes the wartime experience of all rural Australians by ...
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Russian Anzacs in Australian History
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Elena Govor has given voice to a part of Australian cultural history that until now has been silent. Extraordinarily, it was men born in the former Russian Empire that constituted ...
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Sahib: The British Soldier in India
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From one of Britain's leading military historians, 'Sahib' is a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain’s imperial crown ...
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SAS: A Pictorial History of the Australian Special Air Service 1957-1997
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This CD contains facsimile images of the original book. It is fully searchable, making it an extremely useful resource for war historians or those with special interest in the Australian Special Air Service.
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Scotland For Ever: A Book of the Scottish Regiments
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Published approx. 1914-1918 in London, by Hodder and Stoughton, with a Preface written by the Earl of Roseberry, this is one of the most sought-after of all the Scottish military ...
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Scottish Agricultural Implements
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Over the centuries Scotland has produced a variety of agricultural implements which reflect both the subsistence farming of the crofting communities and the prosperity of the larger lowland farms. P ...
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Scottish Battles: From Mons Graupius to Culloden
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Scottish history has been shaped and defined by a series of great battles--Bannockburn, Flodden and Culloden have a resonance and impact far beyond Scotland itself. In the first full military ...
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Scottish Military Uniforms
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This CD is one in the "Sourcebook" series, which present on one disc a variety of materials on a given topic. This particular sourcebook brings together a wide selection of articles dealing with some aspect of Scottish military uniforms and weaponry. ...
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Second World War: A Generation of Australian Heroes, An Illustrated History 1939-1945
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This beautifully illustrated book is a moving pictorial record of the Second World War as experienced by the Australian men and women who contributed so much. More than ...
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Seeking the Sydney: A Quest for Truth
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The wartime loss of Australia’s pride, HMAS Sydney, with all hands on board, remains among the great riddles of modern maritime history - one that has teased authorities, naval experts ...
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Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia 1916-18
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'Setting the Desert on Fire' is a masterly account of this key moment made legendary by T.E. Lawrence ...
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Shattered Anzacs: Living With the Scars of War
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'Shattered Anzacs' tells the untold story of thousands of Australian families who welcomed home disabled soldiers after the First World War. It explores the profound and lasting consequences of disablement for their kin in the 1920s and 1930s ...
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Signals: A Story of the Australian Corps of Signals
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Written and prepared by members of the Australian Corps of Signals, this book is an outline of the achievements of the Australian Corps of Signals ...
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Silent Feet: The History of 'Z' Special Operations 1942-45
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For the first time to full story of the operations of Z Special Unit, behind Japanese lines is revealed. 'Silent Feet' highlights the foolish mistakes made by SRD headquarters in ...
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Soldiering On: The Australian Army at Home and Overseas
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Following in the tradition commenced with The Anzac Book, Soldiering On tells the story of the Australian Army during 1942. All stories are contributed by members of the Australian Army – "prepared in the field in brief hours off duty, often by the flickering light of a hurricane lamp ... "
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Soldiers' Story: Long Tan Vietnam-S
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Somewhere Below: The 'Sydney' Scandal Exposed
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645 men ... why were they left to be killed? Why were hundreds of Germans rescued and no Australias? Why does the Navy deny that Japan was involved? What ...
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Somme Mud: The War Experience of an Australian Infantryman in France 1916-1919
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'It's the end of 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, wade in ...
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Stalemate in Korea: The Royal Australian Regiment in the Static War of 1952-1953
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'This book is different. It describes the problems of living in a harsh climate in full view of the enemy. Night patrolling was developed to an art seldom seen ...
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Stand Easy
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Following the practice with Khaki and Green in 1943, this book is the compilation of stories written by members of the Army ...
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Steinaecker's Horsemen: South Africa 1899-1903
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'Steinaecker's Horsemen' is a book relating the exploits of an irregular unit fighting on the British side during the Anglo–Boer War of 1899-1902. Written by Bill Woolmore, the book is illustrated with many maps and photos, and contains a biographical nominal roll ...
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Story of a Battalion: 48th Battalion of the AIF
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Written by William Devine in 1919, this book describes the history of the 48th Battalion of the AIF from 16 March 1916 when they were raised in Egypt ...
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Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45
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Many of the prisoners held by the Japanese during WWII were so scarred by their experiences that afterwards they could not discuss them even with their families. But some did, and here's their stories.
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Tasmania's War Record 1914-1918
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This comprehensive record 'aims at giving … an idea of what Tasmanian soldiers did and endured and of the less glorious but very useful work done by thousands of men and women who remained at home…'
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Tasmanians in the Transvaal War
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A comprehensive, accurate and complete narrative of the Transvaal war (or Boer War) in South Africa, the first war that Australia participated in.
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Telephone Directory December 1942: Personnel in Military Installations
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This 77 page telephone directory gives the contact numbers for the various bases, as well as names and divisions of key personnel at each ...
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The 'Letter' Batteries: The History of the 'Letter' Batteries in World War II
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When General Douglas MacArthur took command of the South East Pacific Area one of his first actions was the have a committee of specialists examine the defences of ...
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The Anzac Squadron: A History of the No. 461 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force 1942-1945
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This is the story of No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, which was formed in Britain on Anzac Day 1942 and which spent the next three years ...
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The Anzacs
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Gallipoli was the final resting place for tousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was not time for escape of burial. And Gallipoli was over there was the ...
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The Army List 1842
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Contains a list of all Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on both Full and Half Pay with an index and a succession of Colonels for 1842. High quality ...
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The Army List 1863
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Contains a list of all Officers of the Army, Royal Marines, Militia, Yeonmanry and Volunteer Lists for 1863. High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. Some ...
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The Australian Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Boxer Uprising 1899-1901
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The Boxer Uprising broker out in rural China and quickly gained tacit support from some of the Chinese Government who saw the anti-foreign movement as a useful tool to pressure ...
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The Australian Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Zulu and Boer Wars
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The outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War in October 1899 generated an outpouring of public enthusiasm and support both in Great Britain and throughout the British Empire. This ...
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The Battle Abbey Roll With Some Account of the Norman Lineages
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The Battle Abbey Roll contains the names of some 629 men who fought alongside Duke William of Normandy in 1066 in his successful conquest of England. The list was ordered by the victorious William to be compiled as a memorial to his victory and a record of those companions in arm ...
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The Battle of Bannockburn 1314
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A history of the most celebrated battle between Scotland and England, in which Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II. It has been nearly a century since a book on ...
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The Battle of Largs: The Norse Invasion of Scotland in 1263
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Battles often are cited as turning points in the history of a region, and thus the Battle of Stamford Bridge, the Battle of Hastings and the Battle of Largs become fixed points in the mind of students of Britain. In 1263, the great Scandinavian king Hakon collected an enormous fleet of ships ...
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The Battle of Long Tan: As Told by the Commanders
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This is the first time those in direct command of Delta Company have shared their memories of the most significant battle fought by Australians in Vietnam, the Battle ...
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The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Crown Point
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This is an account of the Black Watch, and of their service in North America during the French and Indian War, from the time the regiment left Scotland in 1756 through the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1759. It provides information on the rolls as they were in May 1757 ...
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The Body Snatchers: The History of the 3rd Field Ambulance 1914-1918
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The story of Simpson and his donkey is one of the enduring legends of the Gallipoli campaign. 'The Body Snatchers' tells the story of the brave doctors, stretcher bearers, drivers and nursing orderlies who made up the 3rd Field Ambulance. The book traces their story through the battlefields of Gallipoli, France and Belgium ...
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The Boer War
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First printed in 1979 and constantly in and out of print since then, Thomas Pakenham's 'The Boer War' is not only a masterpiece of military history, but has become one of the classics on the topic. Working over unexamined archives, and talking to survivors ...
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The Brave Sons of Skye
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This is an account of the most celebrated sons of Skye who served in the British military in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It includes representatives of such families as: Bethune, Campbell, Chisholm, Elder, Fraser, Gardiner, Gilstrap, Grant, Lindsay, MacAlister, MacBeth, MacCaskill, MacCrimmon, MacDonald ...
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The British Admirals of the Fleet 1734-1995: A Biographical Dictionary
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Between 1734 and 1995, 115 individuals attained the highest rank that the Royal Navy had to offer of Admiral. The book is a biographical history of each person and packed with facts and anecdotes ...
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The British Army in Australia 1788-1870: Index of Personnel
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Prior to 1820 Australians and British were recruited into the locally based (Australian) military units. It is estimated that 60 Australian born lads enlisted locally, and a further 120 ...
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The British Army in Australia 1788-1870: Index of Personnel
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Prior to 1820 Australians and British were recruited into the locally based (Australian) military units. It is estimated that 60 Australian born lads enlisted locally, and a further ...
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The British Soldier of the First World War
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This book explores the life of the average British 'Tommy' of the Great War, in battle and at rest, in training, and on his return home. Illustrated with evocative images of war, and items of the soldier's kit ...
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The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands
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Frank Adam's 'Clans, Septs, and Regiments' is a classic reference work for all who have an interest in Scotland. When it first appeared in print, it was the first real attempt to present a complete study of the Highlands ...
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The Colonials in South Africa 1899-1902: Their Record Based on Despatches
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The only book to study the work of all the colonial troops - especially useful when trying to fathom the doings of some of the less well-known colonial forces such as Brabant’s Horse, the Heidleburg Volunteers or the 1st New South Wales Bushmen ...
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The Courtneys: A Victorian Military Family
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The saga of the Courtney's commences in Ireland, and moves to Australia during the gold rush where the family soon became heavily involved in the local volunteer movement at Castlemaine. Military service became a tradition carried through four generations of the family. 'The Courtneys' is illustrated with photos from the ...
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The Encyclopedia of Australia's Battles
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The Encyclopedia of Australia's Battles' contains concise descriptions of all the major battles that have taken place in Australia or in which Australians have been involved over more than 200 ...
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