The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean by Mike Carlton
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Category: Military History
When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. HMAS Vendetta, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Waterhen were old ships, small with worn-o ...Show more
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton
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Category: Military History
'Terrific' Anthony Horowitz From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies' liber ...Show more
The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
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Category: Military History
An accessible guide to the major events and turning points of the First World War, and the nations and individuals involved Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars". Combining authori ...Show more
44 Days: 75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia by Michael Veitch
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'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It's also a top read.' ****ADELAIDE ADVERTISERThe epic World War II story of the heroes of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days when these brave and barely trained pilots fo ...Show more
A Brutal Reckoning - The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens
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Category: Military History
'Cozzens is a master storyteller.' The TimesBeginning with the invasion by Spanish Conquistadors in the sixteenth century, A Brutal Reckoning tells the story of the encroachment on Native American territory in the deep south by the US republic 150 years later, which culminated in the devastating Creek W ...Show more
A Higher Call - The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War by Adam Makos; Larry Alexander
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Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, a man able to ...Show more
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley
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Category: Military History
This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elit ...Show more
Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath by Ben Kesling
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Category: Military History
But Bravo Company’s story didn’t end when they came home. In the ten years since, two of their members have died by suicide, more than a dozen others have tried, and others admit they’ve considered it. Bravo Company’s traumatic tour and high suicide rate led to its veterans being declared by the Veteran ...Show more
D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion by Martin Morgan
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Category: Military History
Experience the all-important Normandy invasion through some of D-Day's most incredible photographs.Although it took a multinational coalition to conduct World War II's amphibious D-Day landings, the US military made a major contribution to the operation that created mighty American legends and unforgett ...Show more
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan FTI by Robert Grandin; Bob Buick (Contribution by); David Sabben (Contribution by); Harry Smith (Contribution by); Geoffrey Martin Kendall (Contribution by); Francis Roberts (Contribution by); Maurice Stanley (Contribution by)
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Category: Military History
An account of the most famous Australian battle of the Vietnam war by the six Australian commanders and one New Zealander commander of the units which made up the Australian fighting force.
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
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Category: Military History
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thi ...Show more
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: Military History
Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped young men engaged an experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track. This book tells the Kokoda story in a gripping and moving style.