Courage Under Fire by Daniel Keighran
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<i><b>'</b><b>A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame Quentin Bryce</b> </i> On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran ri ...Show more
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Richard Holmes, Richard Holmes
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80th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONProduced in collaboration with the Imperial War MuseumRelive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign that involved more than a million men and helped seal the fate of Hitler's Germany.Written by esteemed military histor ...Show more
Edith Blake’s War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War by Krista Vane-Tempest
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In the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for France to pick up wounded men from the killing fields of the Western Front. Onboard was 32-year-old Australian nurse, Edith Blake. After being torpedoed by a German U-boat, the ...Show more
Eight Hundred Heroes: China's Lost Battalion and the Fall of Shanghai by Stephen Robinson
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Acclaimed historian Stephen Robinson brings to life a legendary last stand. Shanghai 1937. With invading Japanese troops poised to capture one of the world's greatest cities after almost three months of brutal urban warfare, the Chinese Army begins to retreat - except for a single battalion that stays ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: Military History
In the Trenches of HellOn 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Austral ...Show more
Goering's Man in Paris - The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos
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Category: Military History
A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "A well-rounded portrait of a complex figure. . . . Engrossing."--Publishers Weekly "With meticulous precision Jonathan uncovers the inner workings of the Nazi looting machine, exposing a network that l ...Show more
Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War by Rowland White
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Category: Military History
'Utterly brilliant- a fantastically exciting book... This really does read like the best kind of thriller. His best book yet'James Holland, author of Normandy '44April 1982. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.In response, Britain despatches a naval task force. Eight thousand miles from home, its fat ...Show more
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War by Brendan Simms, Charles Laderman
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Category: Military History
A riveting account of Pearl Harbor and the five history-making days that followedThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days transformed much ...Show more
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
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Category: Military History
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential readi ...Show more
I Will Run Wild - The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
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This was the reaction of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy when he received orders in November 1941 to attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. For the next five months and 27 days, he kept his word as the Japanese fleet swept across th ...Show more
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
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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.
Larrikins in Khaki: Tales of Irreverence and Courage from World War II Diggers by Tim Bowden
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Category: Military History | Series: Irreverence & Courage from WWII Digger Memoirs
From recruitment and training and the battlegrounds of Palestine, North Africa, Thailand, Burma and beyond, here are the highly individual stories of Australia's World War II Diggers told in their own voices - warts and all.