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'Readers look for and admire good writers and great writing. They will find it, in spades, in The Battle of the Bismarck Sea.' - The Canberra ...
Fighter pilot Lou Spence's story is one of bravery, leadership and love. Author John Spence draws on his father's wartime diaries, which he ...
Through a precious cache of WWII letters, a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and survival, from ...
The story of 617 Squadron RAF, which carried out one of the most dangerous and audacious aerial bombing raids of World War II It was ...
Winner of the Les Carlyon Literary Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Australian History Prize.
First Runner Up for Templer Medal Book Prize ...
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 ...
Between the end of the Kokoda campaign in January 1943 and the start of the New Guinea offensives at Lae in early September 1943, the ...
The untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations, the precursor to the elite SAS, and the extraordinary feats they undertook in the Pacific during ...
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore ...
'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 ...
At the start of the Second World War there was no permanent RAAF presence in South Australia, but within just two years there were several ...
What could induce a young pilot to walk out onto the wing of his burning aircraft at 13,000 feet?
Why would a plucky young ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...