The Secrets of the Anzacs by DUNBAR RADEN
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Category: MILITARY
Here is a truly astonishing statistic: during World War I, about 60,000 soldiers in the Australian Imperial Force were treated by army doctors in Egypt, Europe, and Australia for venereal diseases - almost the same number of diggers who were killed during the war. This silent, secret scourge took hold ...Show more
The Nashos' War : Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
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Category: MILITARY
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca by Maria Goodavage
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Category: MILITARY
The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, true story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated and hig ...Show more
Abducting a General - The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dre ...Show more
Japan 1941 - Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta
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Category: MILITARY | Series: Vintage | Reading Level: near fine
A "Kirkus Reviews" Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, its leaders, in large part, understo ...Show more
The Real Great Escape : The Story of the First World Wars Most Daring Mass Breakout by Jacqueline Cook
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Category: MILITARY
Bigger than The Great Escape. The story of the first successful mass tunnel escape from a POW camp in First World War Germany. Situated in Lower Saxony, Germany, Holzminden swung open its barbed wire gates to welcome its first guests in September 1917. It was here that the transient population of office ...Show more
Private Bill in Love and War by Barrie Cassidy
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Category: MILITARY
Barrie Cassidy's dad Bill survived more than four years as a prisoner of war in World War II. He first saw conflict on Crete in May 1941, during the only large-scale parachute invasion in wartime history. Just four days later, Bill was wounded and eventually captured. Twice he tried to escape his intern ...Show more
Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44 by Anna Reid
21.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided instead to starve it out. Using newly available diarie ...Show more
Smithsonian Civil War in 3D: The Life and Death of the Soldier by Michael Stephenson
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Category: MILITARY
A collection of 35 stereoscopic photographs and sturdy metal viewer provide a remarkable and highly realistic 3D view of the daily life of soldiers during the American Civil War. Images will include building winter quarters, preparing food in the mess hall, bathing in a river in Virginia, waiting at the ...Show more
Zero Night: The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape by Mark Felton
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the hu ...Show more
Charles Bean's Gallipoli by Phillip Bradley (Editor); C. E. W. Bean
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Category: MILITARY
Charles Bean and Gallipoli are forever closely bound. Serving as the official Australian war correspondent from the landing to the evacuation, Charles Bean was able to dedicate his days and nights to witnessing and recording the events that would form the Anzac legend. In writing his diaries, Bean also ...Show more
Predator by Richard Whittle
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Category: MILITARY
The creation of the first weapon in history whose operators can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the globe was far more than clever engineering. As Richard Whittle shows in Predator, it was one of the most profound developments in the history of military and aerospace technology. Once consid ...Show more