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18 produkter
44 Days
75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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''Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It''s also a top read.'' DAILY TELEGRAPH In March and April 1942, RAAF 75 Squadron bravely defended Port Moresby for 44 days when Australia truly stood alone against the …
Barney Greatrex
From Bomber Command to the French Resistance - the stirring story of an Australian hero
E-bok, 2017
45 kr
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The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter . A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for RAF Bomber Command in 1941, eager to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack. …
44 Days
75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia
Häftad, 2017
173 kr
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'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It's also a top read.' DAILY TELEGRAPHThe epic World War II story of the heroes of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days when these brave and barely trained pilots …
Turning Point
The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan''s first land defeat in World War II
E-bok, 2019
45 kr
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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 indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their finest - though now largely …
Barney Greatrex
From Bomber Command to the French Resistance - the stirring story of an Australian hero
Häftad, 2019
142 kr
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The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter. A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for RAF Bomber Command in 1941, eager to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack. …
Battle of the Bismarck Sea
Häftad, 2021
247 kr
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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 TimesIn the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the …
Battle of the Bismarck Sea
E-bok, 2021
45 kr
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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 Times In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the …
Australia's Secret Army
Häftad, 2022
247 kr
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A Coastwatcher's work is ... to sit in hiding like a spider, right in the web of the enemy, unseen and unheard. We became the eyes and ears of the Pacific.' Reg Evans, CoastwatcherHidden deep in the jungles and high in the mountains of the Southwest Pacific during World War II, Australia's secret …
Australia's Secret Army
E-bok, 2022
45 kr
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Established after World War I by the Royal Australian Navy, the Coast Watchers were a loose organisation of several hundred European settlers, missionaries, patrol officers and planters living in British and Australian Pacific Island territories whose job it was to observe and report on the enemy. …
Borneo: The Last Campaign
Häftad, 2025
229 kr
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From bestselling author Michael Veitch (Australia's Secret Army, Turning Point) comes the story of the brilliant, yet controversial campaign which ended Australia's involvement in World War II. Borneo: The Last Campaign tells the story of Operation OBOE, the massive, three-pronged assault on the …
Borneo: The Last Campaign
E-bok, 2025
125 kr
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From bestselling author Michael Veitch (Australia's Secret Army, Turning Point) comes the story of the brilliant, yet controversial campaign which ended Australia's involvement in World War II. Borneo: The Last Campaign tells the story of Operation OBOE, the massive, three-pronged assault on the …
Turning Point
The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat in World War II
Häftad, 2022
179 kr
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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 indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their finest - though now largely …
Southern Surveyor
Stories from Onboard Australia's Ocean Research Vessel
Häftad, 2015
319 kr
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Southern Surveyor
Stories from Onboard Australia''s Ocean Research Vessel
E-bok, 2015
273 kr
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''The deepest trenches, highest mountains, biggest earthquakes, most explosive volcanoes are all associated with these places. We’re discovering things all the time.''For ten years, the RV Southern Surveyor represented the vanguard of Australian marine science. On over 100 voyages, this former …
Southern Surveyor
Stories from Onboard Australia''s Ocean Research Vessel
E-bok, 2015
276 kr
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''The deepest trenches, highest mountains, biggest earthquakes, most explosive volcanoes are all associated with these places. We’re discovering things all the time.'' For ten years, the RV Southern Surveyor represented the vanguard of Australian marine science. On over 100 voyages, this former …
Fly
E-bok, 2009
229 kr
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''Fly is an absorbing read thanks to the amazing and previously untold stories Veitch collected from aging pilots, navigators and gunners.'' HERALD SUN All over the world during World War II, thousands of young men who had never so much as been near an aeroplane left offices, farms and classrooms …
Forgotten Islands
E-bok, 2011
229 kr
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''The more I learned, the more I realised this was an Australia I hardly knew. This was stormy weather Australia, an Australia of shipwrecks and sealers; of brutality and extermination; of folly and heroism; of wild weather and explorers in flimsy boats; of thousand-foot cliffs and amazing birds …
Heroes of the Skies
E-bok, 2015
308 kr
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Every veteran has a story. Sometimes these stories become part of family folklore. Sometimes they are too terrible to speak of. In April 1943 Cyril Burcher bombed a German U-boat, killing its entire crew. Thirty years later, a letter arrived for him out of the blue from the daughter of the U-boat …
