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In 2010 Tim commenced as a tour guide with the Rottnest Volunteer Guides Association. In the course of his duties he discovered aspects of Western ...
'A wonderful book that tells a remarkable and heroic story.'
AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR ANGUS HOUSTON AK, AFC (RET'D)
The choking, chest-tightening feeling of ...
'The Japanese attacked us, they mortared us, they shelled us...they did everything.' On 21 July 1942, a large Japanese reconnaissance mission landed along the ...
In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missing in action. No details were ever given about ...
The Battle for Milne Bay - Japan's first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the ...
In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of Singapore, captivity in ...
At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust?
The battle for Crete was at once the most modern ...
'Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea' - Japanese military saying
The capture of Lae was the most ...
For sixty-six years it was Australia's greatest maritimemystery: what happened to the 'pride of the fleet' HMAS Sydney - was she beatenin a fair fight ...
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 ...
Contrary to what many Australians believe, during 1942 Japanese submarines were active in Australian waters and Japanese spy planes made surveillance flights over our major ...
Colditz Castle was Nazi Germany's infamous 'escape-proof' wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more ...
Lieutenant John Rosel won a Military Cross for displaying 'calmness and outstanding leadership' when his platoon became surrounded at a critical point in the siege ...
The relentless pursuit of the Japanese during the Kokoda Track campaign is described in gut-wrenching detail in The Making of Warriors, through first-hand veteran accounts ...
