War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe – 1942-1943 by Peter Harmsen
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War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories it expands the narrative beginning long before Pearl Harbor and encompasses a much wider group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written and the first truly internati ...Show more
The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942 by David W. Cameron
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Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, an ...Show more
Glass Soldier: Not All of Him Shall Die by Don Farrands
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This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged by strength. Nelson Ferguson, from Ballarat, was a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front in France in World War I. He survived the dangers of stretcher-bearing in some of Australias most ...Show more
Hell and High Water: Cecil Healy, Olympic Champion whose life was cut short by war by Rochelle Nicholls
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Meeting Saddam's Men by Ashton Robinson
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This book is Ashton Robinson's unique eye-witness account of the ISG's operations in Iraq, based at Camp Slayer, in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces the group's task was to search for weapons of mass destruction or to account for them if they did not exist. But the ISG discovered so much more. The ...Show more
The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace by PATTERSON, SCOTT
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At the end of the First World War, there were 270,000 demobilised Australian soldiers in Europe. Getting them home after the Armistice was a task of epic proportions that would take more than two years. In the meantime, how to keep these disgruntled, damaged men with guns occupied? In a word: sport. T ...Show more
Man Inside by Graham Apthorpe
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Graham Apthorpe's account of the Cowra outbreak is superb. Narrated in a fresh way, in elegant and original prose, and with a wonderful gift for taking the unexpected angle, it does great service to this astonishing Australian-Japanese event, and will have a honoured place in the canon of fascinating wo ...Show more
Viking Boys: Beaufighters, Bravery and Lost Airmen by John Quaife
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An Australian attack aircraft flies into a ship with guns blazing. Both crewmen are killed, but does anyone notice? At the entrance to Orsta fjord, down an overgrown path, a granite stone stands on a rocky outcrop at the water’s edge. Roughly inscribed in English, it records the loss of two yo ...Show more
Deadly Force Firearms and American Law Enforcement : from the Wild West to the Streets of Today by Chris McNab
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Almost every movie of a police shootout includes the following depiction of violence: good guy shoots bad guy; bad guy instantly drops dead. But the reality is that when someone is hit by a bullet, or even several bullets, this rarely happens. What does happen when someone is shot? How effective is the ...Show more
Mutiny on the Western Front by Greg Raffin
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On 21 September 1918, with retreating German forces on their last legs, the 1st Battalion of the AIF was ordered to return to the front just as they were being relieved and preparing for a well-earnt rest. It wasn’t just the Germans who were on their last legs; the Australians were depleted and exhauste ...Show more
Quiet Courage: Forgotten Heroes of World War Two by Tony Matthews
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What could induce a young pilot to walk out onto the wing of his burning aircraft at 13,000 feet?Why would a plucky young woman descend into the bowels of a sinking ship knowing that she would almost certainly die there?Why did a family remain on their farm, tending crops while suffering four long years ...Show more