Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War by Phillip Deery
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Category: Military History
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency- ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at counter ...Show more
The Battle of Britain by Bob Carruthers
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Category: Military History
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
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
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Category: Military History
In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were agai ...Show more
The Bite of the Lotus: An Intimate memoir of the Vietnam War by Carl Robinson
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Category: Military History
A fabulous, fast-paced and stirring memoir of the entire Vietnam War from an American civilian who began as an idealistic province-level do-gooder in the war's earliest days in 1964. Quitting in protest after Tet '68, a disillusioned Carl Robinson became a journalist for the remainder of the Vietnam War ...Show more
The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War by Stephen Robinson
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Category: Military History
Colonel John Boyd, a maverick fighter pilot, revolutionized the American art of war through his ideas on conflict and the human mind. Boyd claimed that victory is won by the side which transitions through 'decision cycles' faster than the enemy, mentally checkmating them with minimal violence. Maneuver ...Show more
The Commanders - The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark
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Category: Military History
A fascinating biography of Patton, Montgomery and Rommel which reveals how these three unique personalities rose to the highest ranks.
The Commando by Ben McKelvey
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Category: Military History
On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit under heavy fire. In the prolonged firefight, Cameron was mortally wounded. In 2014, Cameron's bravery and courage under ...Show more
The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
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Category: Military History
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
The Desert War : The Classic Trilogy on the North African Campaign 1940-1943 by Alan Moorehead
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Category: Military History | Reading Level: General Adult
In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War - later collected as his 'African Trilogy' - were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account of the tu ...Show more
The Fighting Cameliers - the Exploits of by Frank Reid
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Category: Military History
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
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Category: Military History | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...Show more
The Lost Battalions: A Battle That Could Not Be Won. an Island That Could Not Be Defended. an Ally That Could Not Be Trusted by Tom Gilling
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Category: Military History
This is a story of forgotten Australian heroes, the soldiers of two battalions--the 2/3 Machine-Gun battalion and the 2/2 Pioneer battalion--who were on their way home from action in the Middle East to defend Australia from the Japanese when they found themselves diverted to Java to face the vastly supe ...Show more