Complete Illustrated History of World War II by Donald Somerville
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Category: Military
This authoritative book begins with the aftermath of World War I, when new political movements and grievances took shape. The main section of the book then covers the war in detail from the advance of Nazi forces across Europe to Operation Barbarossa, and from the battles in North Africa to the war in t ...Show more
Mosul: Australia's secret war inside the ISIS caliphate by Ben Mckelvey
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Category: Military
From the best-selling author of The Commando and Born to Fight comes a fascinating investigation of modern warfare that combines methodical research and the fast-paced action of battle with the personal stories of the combatants on both sides of the line. Taking us from the suburbs of western Sydney ...Show more
Larrikins in Khaki: Tales of Irreverence and Courage from World War II Diggers by Tim Bowden
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Category: Military | 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.
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: Military
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
Unnecessary Wars by Henry Reynolds
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Category: Military
'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a threeyear conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had, ostensibly, nothing to do with Australia. Coi ...Show more
The Australian Light Horse: The magnificent Australian force and its decisive victories in Arabia in World War I by Roland Perry
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Category: Military | Series: Hachette Military Collection | Reading Level: near fine
The Australian Light Horse was a unique force, first raised during the Boer War, and then reformed for World War I. Most of the men were from the outback, had a special bond with their horses (which were all brought from Australia) - and they knew how to survive and fight in the desert. The greatest par ...Show more
The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
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Category: Military
On 2 September 2008, in a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second decision that would change his life. His display of extraordinary courage that day saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the first Australian to receive our highest award for braver ...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 | 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
The Battle of Britain by Bob Carruthers
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Category: Military
The Battle of Britain was the World War II air campaign waged by the Luftwaffe against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command. The name derives from a famous speech delivered ...Show more
Bill the Bastard: The story of Australia's greatest war horse by Roland Perry
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Category: Military
An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine.
The Long Patrol: Australia and East Timor's Wars by Richard Plunkett
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Category: Military SPECIALS
Australia's involvement with East Timor began in World War II when many Australian comandos would have died without the aid of the East Timorese. But in the 1970s Australia and other neighbouring nations stood by while tiny East Timor was crushed by an Indonesia invasion. A referendum for independence i ...Show more