The Desert War : The Classic Trilogy on the North African Campaign 1940-1943 by Alan Moorehead
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Category: Military History | Reading Level: General Adult
In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War - later collected as his 'African Trilogy' - were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account of the tu ...Show more
The Eagle in the Mirror by Jesse Fink
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Category: Military History
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century- Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest serving ...Show more
The Fighting Cameliers - the Exploits of by Frank Reid
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Category: Military History
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
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Category: Military History | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...Show more
The Lost Battalions: A Battle That Could Not Be Won. an Island That Could Not Be Defended. an Ally That Could Not Be Trusted by Tom Gilling
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Category: Military History
This is a story of forgotten Australian heroes, the soldiers of two battalions--the 2/3 Machine-Gun battalion and the 2/2 Pioneer battalion--who were on their way home from action in the Middle East to defend Australia from the Japanese when they found themselves diverted to Java to face the vastly supe ...Show more
The Nasho's War: Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
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Category: Military History
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
The Nazi Menace - Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War by Benjamin Carter Hett
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Category: Military History
A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War--a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military commanders to impress upon them the urgent necessit ...Show more
The Pathfinders: The Greatest Untold Story of the Air War Against the Nazis by Will Iredale
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Category: Military History
Dark low-level raids, dodging anti-aircraft flak to make pinpoint-accurate drops - the incredible story of ordinary men and women who took to the skies to mark bomb targets inside Hitler's GermanyThe Pathfinders were the crack team that transformed the hit rate in the RAF's Bomber Command from 24% in Au ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
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Category: Military History
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
The Second World War: An Illustrated History by James Holland
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Category: Military History
The Second World War is brought to life with captivating colour and detail, in this illustrated history from renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith BurnsFrom the internationally acclaimed historian James Holland comes an enthralling and illuminating account of the key battles an ...Show more
The Spitfire Story - Told by Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane by Jacky Hyams
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Category: Military History
The Spitfire Story, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines of the Second World War.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming into its own during the Battle of Britain, it became famous during ...Show more
The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation by Richard J. Evans
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Category: Military History | Series: The Third Reich Trilogy
The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans' "The Third Reich in Power: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation" explores how Hitler turned Germany from a vibrant democracy into a one-party state. Before Hitler seized power in 1933, Ger ...Show more