| Author: | Emma Campbell |
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Non-World Wars |
Every day hundreds of people gather at the Australian War Memorial to hear a personal story of love, loss, service and sacrifice. The Last Post profiles some of the 102,800 soldiers whose names are listed on the Memorial's Roll of Honour; it explores how and why we commemorate, an... read more
| Author: | Jason Foster |
| Category: |
World War 1 |
The ANZAC tradition was forged on the killing fields of Gallipoli in 1915 and the legend grewthroughout the decades at places such as Tobruk, Singapore, Kokoda and Long Tan. A CENTURY OFANZACS is a pictorial history of Australia's involvement in more than a hundred years of war... read more
| Author: | Marianne van Velzen |
| Category: |
World War 1 |
At the end of WWI 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. Some bodies had been hastily buried mid-battle in massed graves; some were mutilated beyond recogni... read more
| Author: | Christopher Hibbert |
| Category: |
Non-World Wars |
| Series: | Brief Histories |
There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporary French chronicler, it was the 'most disgraceful eve... read more
| Author: | Rosie John; Serdiville Sadler |
| Category: |
World War 1 |
| Series: | Casemate Short History |
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| Author: | Kate Adie |
| Category: |
World War 1 |
A chronicle of the ways in which women's lives changed during World War I and what the impact has been for women today, 100 years laterIn 1914 the world changed forever. This book details how when World War I broke out and a generatio... read more
| Author: | David Ross; Chris Bishop |
| Category: |
World War 1 |
Dive into the fascinating naval history of the submarine with this comprehensive and detailed guide
Submarines offers a highly illustrated guide to all the main classes of submarines to be used in naval warfare from the beginning of World War I to the present d... read more
| Author: | Jones, Nigel H. |
| Category: |
Non-World Wars |
| Series: | Brief Histories Ser. |
The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923) of civil war, assassination, plots, putsches and murderous mayhem to Ger... read more
| Author: | Ian McPhedran |
| Category: |
Australian Military |
From battling pirates to tracking down gun runners, drug smugglers and terrorists; the high energy exploits and explosive adventures of the Australian Navy in the Arabian Gulf. From Ian McPhedran, best-selling author of The Amazing SAS, Soldiers Without Borders and Too Bold... read more
| Author: | Chil Rajchman |
| Category: |
World War 2 |
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped execution, wor... read more
| Author: | Gavin Roynon |
| Category: |
World War 1 |
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could onl... read more
