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Just after midnight on 1 March 1942, Australia's most renowned cruiser, HMAS Perth, was sunk by Japanese naval forces in the Sunda Strait off ...
Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE ...
'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your ...
'I can't understand the mentality of the Australian people. One day they are in a panic about the war and the next they want ...
'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 ...
Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as ...
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theatre.
Volume Three illustrates ...
No-one will ever know what made him do it.
In 1942, 18-year-old Edward "Teddy" Sheean was one of the youngest and most inexperienced sailors on ...
This is the second edition of a book originally published in 2017. In this version over two dozen pages of footnotes and source lists have ...
A dark secret lurked aboard HMAS Australia, the flagship of the Royal Australian Navy. In 1942, with a Japanese invasion looming, those aboard the ship ...
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 ...
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 ...