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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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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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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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Constant Care: The Royal Australian Navy Health Services 1915-2002
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'Constant Care' is a history of the Royal Australian Navy Health Service from its beginnings in 1911, through to the Gulf War. This book covers health care in war ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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The Navy in South Australia
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Sir William Creswell's articles on the South Australian Navy were originally published in the Adelaide weekly newspaper 'The Observer'. They have now been reprinted in full and are followed by additional ...
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The Royal Australian Navy and MacArthur
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By 1945 General Douglas MacArthur's forces had advanced from Papua to the Philippines and to Borneo. The vast majority of the troops, supplies and equipment for this campaign were transported by sea, and MacArthur's success was based on 22 amphibious assaults.
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The Search for the 'Sydney': How Australia's Greatest Maritime Mystery Was Solved
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Here, for the first time, David Mearns, the shipwreck hunter who found her, tells the full six year, dramatic story of his search for two ships, Sydney and Kormoran, whose paths crossed one fateful day in 1941.
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The Shores of Gallipoli: Naval Aspects of the Anzac Campaign
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Few people realise that the Royal Australian Navy played a crucial part in the Gallipoli campaign, a tragic operation which cost 8000 Australian lives.p Australia's best known naval historian, Dr Tom ...
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The War At Sea
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War at sea has no intermissions, none of the periods of recovery between advances or retreats that land warfare enjoys, no breaks safely behind the lines, between air combat operations. ...
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Wings and the Navy 1947-1953
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This book tells the story of the Royal Australian Navy in the years following the Second World War - an optimistic and confident period when the RAN took to ...
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