The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON
A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelagois Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven ...Show more
Kokoda Trail for Dummies by Peter Williams
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: For Dummies Ser.
Interest in the Kokoda Trail is growing rapidly among many Australians, both for its attraction as a hiking destination and for its historical significance. Kokoda for Dummies offers a fast track tool for learning everything you need to know about this unique thoroughfare, in one concise volume. Part hi ...Show more
The Military History Quiz Book by Osprey Publishing Staff
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: General Military Ser.
How well do you know the who, where, what, when and how of military history? Pit your knowledge against Osprey's very own quizmaster in this unique guide to the famous, infamous and quirky facts of military history. Complete with questions ranging from easy to nearly impossible and including true or fal ...Show more
Redback One: The True Story of an Australian SAS Hero by Robert Macklin
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser.
'This is what an SAS career is really like' AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE MAGAZINE Elite SAS Patrol Commander Stuart 'Nev' Bonner takes us inside the extraordinary and dangerous world of secret combat operations in this explosive, behind-the-scenes look at life inside the SAS. A world where capture means torture o ...Show more
Killer Caldwell by Jeff Watson
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser.
Clive 'Killer' Caldwell was a natural and brilliant pilot, a superb shot, and a born leader. He saw action against the Germans, Italians and Japanese, and remains Australia's greatest ever fighter pilot - this is his definitive biography. Born and brought up in Sydney, it was obvious from an early age ...Show more
Marching with the Devil - Legends, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign Legion by David Mason
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser.
'An unpretentious Aussie's experiences in one of the most ramshackle and soul-destroying military organisations on Earth.' COURIER-MAIL A real-life boy's own adventure, MARCHING WITH THE DEVIL is a hell-raising account of five years in the infamous French Foreign Legion. 'In 1894 a French Foreign Legi ...Show more
Ambon: The Truth About One of the Most Brutal POW Camps in World War II and the Triumph of the Aussie Spirit by Roger Maynard
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser.
'a compelling account of one of World War II's most brutal prisoner of war camps' DAILY TELEGRAPH In February 1942 the Indonesian island of Ambon fell to the might of the advancing Japanese war machine. Among the captured Allied forces was a unit of 1150 Australian soldiers known as Gull Force, who had ...Show more
The Changi Brownlow by Roland Perry
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser.
After Singapore falls to the Japanese early in 1942, 70 000 prisoners including 15 000 Australians, are held as POWs at the notorious Changi prison, Singapore. To amuse themselves and fellow inmates, a group of sportsmen led by the indefatigable and popular Chicken Smallhorn, created an Australian Footb ...Show more
The Fight for Australia by Roland Perry
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The compelling story of Australia's desperate fight for survival during World War II. In the dark days following the fall of Singapore in February 1942, Australia faced its toughest battle yet. It was centrestage and under direct attack from seemingly invincible Japanese forces. Winston Churchill was de ...Show more
Dunera Lives A Visual History by Ken Inglis; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: History Ser.
"When scholars of such rigorous and refined erudition engage with a topic of such critical importance it is a cause for celebration, as are the lives themselves, painstakingly recorded so movingly herein. And all of it comes into the world not a moment too soon."--Elliot Perlman *** In July 1940, around ...Show more
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Hitler Biographies Ser.
'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'There will never be a definitive life of Hitler. The subject is too vast, the man too contradictory and the sources unmanageable. But Volker Ullrich's biography comes as close as we can reaso ...Show more
Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history by Roland Perry
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: How 2 Aust Greatest Generals Changed the World History
Monash and Chauvel is a gripping narrative history that follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. Monash commanded the Australian forces on the Western Front at the most crit ...Show more