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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 Short History of 9 Field Company R.A.E. [A.I.F.] 1939-1945
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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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All-Australia Memorial: Victoria
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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 Memorial
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As Rough as Bags: The History of the 6th Battalion, 1st AIF, 1914-1919
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As You Were 1946
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As You Were 1948
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As You Were 1950
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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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'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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Ignorance is human fate. And yet, at all times, humans searching for knowledge have reached out beyond the expanding horizon shielding the unknown. In the middle of the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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'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 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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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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Duty First: A History of the Royal Australian Regiment
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Echoes of Anzac: The Voice of Australians at War
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 the Australian Front 1917
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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 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 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: 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: Untold Stories From War Correspondent Charles Bean and Front-Line Anzacs
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'Nothing can alter what happened now; Anzac stood and still stands for reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise, resourcefulness, fidelity, comradeship and endurance that will never admit defeat.' ...
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Golonial Guns: Artillery of the Australian Colonies
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This book covers the range of artillery found in the Australian colonies from the time of first white settlement right up until Federation one hundred and ten years later ...
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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 Before Gallipoli: Bita Paka and that One Day in September
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Seven months before the troops landed at Gallipoli, a sailor from Melbourne became the nation's first casualty of World War I. Able seaman William 'Billy' Williams was shot in the ...
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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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His Majesty's Bark Endeavour: The Story of the Ship and Her People
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The 'Endeavour's' incredible voyage of scientific and geographic discovery (1768-1771) has been a source of fascination to the world ever since the ship returned to port. This book tells the ...
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History of the Royal Australian Army Pay Corps in Victoria
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HMAS Diamantina: Australia's Last River Class Frigate 1945-1980
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From war ship to oceanographic research vessel, between 1945 and 1980, Diamantina gave outstanding service to the Australian nation - in war, in making the peace, then in the Cold War years, by undertaking important oceanographic and scientific research ...
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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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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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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.
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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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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 Paupa
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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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Legacies of Our Fathers: World War II Prisoners of the Japanese - their Sons and Daughters Tell their Stories
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During World War II, thousands of Australians headed overseas to various theatres of war. Families farewelled their loved ones, never sure if they would see them again. Many of these ...
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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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Little by Little: A Centenary History of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps
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This history covers the development of Australia's army medical services from the Boer War through to Timor as well as various peace-keeping deployments. The Australian Army Medical Corps came into ...
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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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Maygar's Boys: A Biographical History of the 8th Light Horse Regiment AIF 1914-1919
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The 8th Light Horse Regiment AIF was formed in Melbourne in 1914. This well-illustrated study will serve as a detailed unit history, a medal roll, at Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine service records and a ready "who's who" of the members of the renowned "Fighting 8th Light Horse" ...
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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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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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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 Corps Cavalry: A History of the 13th Light Horse Regiment 1915-1918
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The traditional image of the Australian Light Horseman is of a bushman galloping across the sandy deserts of Palestine. In 'My Corps Cavalry', Doug Hunter provides readers with ...
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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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Navigator in the South Seas
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The violent reality of screaming hurricanes and the paradisal calm of South Seas beaches, glistening with spindrift, are engagingly contrasted by Brett Hilder in his book of adventures along the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Paul Cullen, Citizen and Soldier: The Life and Times of Major General Paul Cullen
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Major General Paul Cullen may be 95 years old, but he still displays the tenacity, frankness and dignity he showed as an eminent military commander in the Second ...
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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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Prisoners of War: From Gallipoli to Korea
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The traditional image of a prisoner of war is that of an emaciated, diseased and ill-treated figure humiliated by incarceration. 'Prisoners of War' challenges this image.P Using dozens of interviews ...
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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 & 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 R.A.A.F. 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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Rainbow: The Story of Rania MacPhillamy
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Rania MacPhillamy left Australia in 1915 to work in a Cario hospital treating the wounded from Gallipoli. After the death of her soldier sweetheart she stayed on in Egypt and together with another woman, she set up a series of canteens for the men ...
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Remember Them: A Guide to Victoria's Wartime Heritage
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Victoria's wartime and military heritage encompasses a vast range of memorials, from the majestic Shrine of Remembrance to local war monuments, honour boards, cemeteries, Avenues of Honour, sculptures, museums and memorabilia. This guidebook shares the personal stories of the individuals honoured Victoria's war memorials ...
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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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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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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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Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape
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'Sacred Places' has won many accolades since it was first published in 1998, including the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Australian History, and 'The Age' Book of the Year. This ...
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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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Seagulls, Cruisers and Catapults: the Story of Australian Naval Aviation 1913-1944
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In 'Seagulls, Cruisers and Catapults' Ray Jones has written an authoritative account of the technical, operational and political aspects of Australian naval aviation from Admiral Creswell's 1913 plan for naval ...
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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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Settlers Under Sail
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Settler's Under Sail' is Don Charlwood's account of the days of the sailing ships and a fascinating reconstruction of the wreck of the Loch Ard.p On 31 May 1878, the Loch ...
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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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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 of the Queen: Women in the Australian Army
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The WRAAC was formed in 1951 as an autonomous corps managed by women. It was effectively disbanded 33 years later when significant changes resulted in the integration of women in the Australian Regular Army. This history of women in the Australian Army traces women's struggle ...
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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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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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Tears on my Pillow: Australian Nurses in Vietnam
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With little more than this sage advice, a total of 43 Australian Army nursing sisters were sent to Vietnam between April 1967 and November 1971, undertaking tours of up to ...
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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 1863 Shipboard Diary of Edward Charlwood from England to Australia
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Edward Charlwood, whose 1863 shipboard diary this is, was the fourth son of Arthur and Phoebe Charlwood. Having emigrated in 1850 from England to Australia with his family as a ...
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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 Australian Cruiser 'Perth' 1939-1942
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For all but a few months from her commissioning in June 1939 to her sinking on 1 March 1942, the 'Perth' was engaged in wartime operations against the forces of Germany, Italy, Vichy France and Japan. This is an account of the cruiser's war service, and more ...
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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 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 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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