Books
Never Forgotten: Honouring Our Veterans
Never Forgotten: Honouring Our Veterans
In the shadows of war, their voices resonate: Australian veterans’ tales Untold stories of Australia’s forgotten soldiers.Vietnam Veteran Dave Morgan explore...
Attack on Sydney Harbour: June 1942
Attack on Sydney Harbour: June 1942
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney Harbour was attacked by midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. A vessel of the Royal Australian Navy was torpedoed,...
The Killer Bees: Australian Independent Companies and Commandos at War 1942 - 1945
The Killer Bees: Australian Independent Companies and Commandos at War 1942 - 1945
The Independent Companies and Commandos were a unique form of sub-unit within the Australian army during t...
Crawl to Freedom: Australian POW Escapes of World War One
Crawl to Freedom: Australian POW Escapes of World War One
During World War One over 4000 Australian servicemen were taken prisoner. Yet the prisoner of war experiences of the Anzacs are ...
Sanananda: A Bastard of a Place
Sanananda: A Bastard of a Place
The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942-43
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November 1942, after pushing the Japanese back along...
Wold War Bloody Timor
Wold War Bloody Timor
My name is Peter O’Hanlon, but everyone in the military, from the lowest digger to the highest officer, has always called me ‘Irish’. You won’t see me, or the service men a...
Chasing Bandits in the Badlands: Australian Soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993
Chasing Bandits in the Badlands: Australian Soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993
In January 1993, the Australian government sent just under one thousand young men and women to serve unde...
Desert Diggers: Writings From a War Zone ‘Somewhere in the Middle East’ 1940-1942
Desert Diggers: Writings From a War Zone ‘Somewhere in the Middle East’ 1940-1942
Desert Diggers: Writings from a War Zone ‘Somewhere in the Middle East’ 1940-1942 draws upon hundreds of soldier...
Operation Postern: The Battle to Recapture Lae from the Japanese, 1943
Operation Postern: The Battle to Recapture Lae from the Japanese, 1943
Japanese troops seized and brutally occupied New Guinea’s capital, Lae, for 18 months – until 16 September 1943. That day A...
Australia's Lost Heroes: ANZACS in the Russian Civil War 1919
Australia's Lost Heroes: ANZACS in the Russian Civil War 1919
This extraordinary book is both an engaging military history and an enthralling mystery. Australia’s Lost Heroes tells the astonishi...
More Than Bombs & Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at Work in World War 1
More Than Bombs & Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at Work in World War 1
More than Bombs and Bandages exposes the false assumption that military nurses only nursed. Based on author Kirsty H...
Kokoda Legend Captain Sam Templeton
Kokoda Legend Captain Sam Templeton
One of the finest soldiers and most courageous leaders I have ever known. – Lt Doug McClean, D Coy, 39th Battalion
If you have trekked Kokoda, then the campsi...
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