The Chipilly Six: Unsung Heroes of the Great War by Lucas Jordan
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Category: Military History
On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen have fallen, for no gain.Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent without ...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 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
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII: Destroyers, Frigates, Escorts, Minesweepers, Coastal Warfare Craft, Submarines & Auxiliaries (Vol by MALCOLM GEORGE WRIGHT
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Category: Military History
During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters. In this now classic work by maritime artist ...Show more
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII: Volume III: Cruisers and Minelayers by MALCOLM GEORGE WRIGHT
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Category: Military History
During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage, applied to both the vertical and horizontal surfaces of their ships, in order to reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying obtrusive patters. In this volume by maritime artist Mal W ...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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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
Harrier: How To Be a Fighter Pilot by Paul Tremelling
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Category: Military History
A white-knuckle account of life in the dog-eat-dog arena of fighter combatThis is the story of what it takes to make it in fighter combat. In the cockpit or crew room, the pressure is relentless, the humour merciless.It's no place for the faint-hearted.Whether landing on a pitching aircraft carrier deck ...Show more
Let the Bastards Come: The Battle for Kapyong Korea, 23 – 25 April 1951 by David W. Cameron
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Category: Military History
Anzac Day 2024 represents the 73rd anniversary of the critical battle of Kapyong (23 to 25 April 1951) This book for the first time tells the full story of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American units involved. Fewer than 1,000 Australian and Canadian infantrymen, supported by New Zealand ar ...Show more
SAS Forged in Hell by Damien Lewis
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Category: Military History
In the summer of 1943, the largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite forces soldiers, the Royal Navy warship carrying them bearing the iconic winged dagger emblem on its prow, plus the motto 'W ...Show more
The Korean Kid - A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age by Rochelle Nicholls
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Category: Military History
A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting. The world's two atomic superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - menaced each other across an arbitrary border as Korea became the proving ground for a new Cold War.The odds ...Show more