Author: Michael Walsh
Presents a tragic story of the Beechey brothers, and how they paid the ultimate price for King and country. This book shows how all eight went to fight in the Great War on such far-flung battlefields as France, Flanders, ... |
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Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai
Author: Julie Summers
Alec Guinness won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the dogmatic, but brittle commanding officer in David Lean's film The Bridge on the River Kwai. While a brilliant performance, it owed more to fiction than fact, ... |
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The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy
Author: Ben Macintyre
Eddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service. He was a highly prized Nazi agent. H ... |
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The Wartime Memoirs of Les Bartlett DFM
Author: Les Bartlett & Peter Jacobs
Les Bartlett has become one of the great characters of World War II history. He flew as bomb aimer with the then Flying Officer Michael Beetham, who later became Marshal of the Royal Air Force. At that time, he was a ser ... |
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A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam
Author: Jean Debelle Lamensdorf
Working as a journalist at the Adelaide Advertiser in 1966, Jean Debelle yearned to be involved in the biggest story of the decade - the Vietnam War. But only male journalists in Australia were being sent to cover the es ... |
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Conscripts and Correspondents Caught Up in the Vietnam War
Author: Stuart MacGladrie & Candace Sutton Malcolm Brown
The Vietnam conflict was an event that bitterly divided Australian society. While many people supported the government's military response to the perceived threat posed by expasionist communism, many others violently opp ... |
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the Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
Author: Peter Grose
Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet the Japanese attack on 19 February 1942 was the first wartime assault on Australian soil. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that devastated Pearl ... |
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Author: T. C. F. Hopkins
Like an angry lion, the Turkish menace growled at the frontiers of Europe. In 1453, the last remnant of the mighty Roman Empire was obliterated when Turkish forces overran Constantinople. Western civilization was being t ... |
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From Pearl Harbour to Bikini Island
Author: Robert D. Ballard
To be published in the 60th anniversary year of the infamous bombing of Pearl Harbor, Graveyards of the Pacific is Dr. Robert Ballard's compelling survey of the major WWII Pacific battlefields and graveyards including Mi ... |
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1939-45
Author: Ronald Lewin
This anthology is...a distillation of what the fighters put down at the time or in retrospect to tell others (or perhaps convince themselves) what it was all about. Here are the words of the wise, the witty, the nonchala ... |
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Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II
Author: Viktor Suvorov
Using new documents and reevaluating existing material, The Chief Culprit analyzes Joseph Stalin??'s strategic design to conquer Europe and his support for Germany, which helped bring Hitler to power and sustained him. S ... |
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Letters from a World War II Soldier
Author: Kerry Redmann
The story of Unfinished Journey centres around the letters of Morris B Redmann Jr, written home to his parents and family from October 20, 1943, through January 11, 1945. He was killed in action on January 14, 1945, duri ... |
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Author: Winston Churchill
As first lord of the admiralty and minister for war and air, Churchill stood resolute at the center of international affairs. In this classic account, he dramatically details how the tides of despair and triumph flowed a ... |
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The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Author: Adam Tooze
This chilling, fascinating new book is the first fully to get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire really functioned. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - it was Hitler's obsession and the reason ... |
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Author: Rowley Richards
'I remember clearly the day my long-lost diary summary was returned to me. It was 15 February 1947, the fifth anniversary of the fall of Singapore. The events of the disastrous Malayan campaign and our surrender had been ... |
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Author: Cassell Military
An international bestseller, this is a German soldier's first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of World War II. When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942 the Germa ... |
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America in Colour 1939-1943 - Photographs from the U.S. Farm Security Administration
Author: Paul Hendrickson
Between the years 1935 and 1942, a vast number of images of America were taken by photographers hired by the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The FSA had been established as a relief organization in order to help rura ... |
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The Japanese Eyewitness Stories That Inspired Clint Eastwood's Film
Author: Kumiko Kakehashi
Clint Eastwood was so moved by this account of the Japanese defence of Iwo Jima that he ended up making two films in 2006. FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, based on the bestselling book of the same name, tells the story of the US M ... |
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Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945
Author: Kim Munholland
The rigorous archival depth and scholarship of the book allows every twist and turn to be detailed down to the hour, and peopled by an array of characters whose self-belief and delusions would make a fictional tale appea ... |
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Author: James Bradley
In this remarkably powerful book, James Bradley takes as his starting point one of the most famous photographs of all time. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima and into a hail of machine- ... |
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