Where Soldiers Lie – The Quest to find Australia’s War Dead by Ian McPhedran
Where Soldiers Lie is not a guidebook to Commonwealth War Graves where our soldiers are buried and commemorated.
The Note Through the Wire – A WWII prisoner of war, a resistance heroine, and their incredible true story by Doug Gold – Book Review
After enlisting in 1940, Bruce Murray, an unhappily married 24-year-old, was posted to the 25th Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
Book Review: D-Day New Guinea D-Day New Guinea by Phillip Bradley – Book Review
Days before and after the launch of Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944, D-Day, around 13,100 American paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and some 7,900 British counterparts […]
South Pacific Air War – Volumes 1 to 3 by Michael Claringbould & Peter Ingman – Book Review
This trilogy has been written by two highly acclaimed authors who have virtually ‘lived and breathed’ the history of aviation in the South West Pacific.
Chastise – The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings – Book Review
Everyone with a passing interest in World War 2 is familiar in a general sense with the RAF 617 Sqn attack on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany […]
Battle on 42nd Street – War in Crete and the Anzac’s bloody last stand by Peter Monteath – Book Review
In 1940 the 42nd Field Company (British Engineers) set up a bivouac straddling a dusty road running North-South near Suda Bay on Crete.
The Man Inside – The Bloodiest Outbreak by Graham Apthorpe – Book Review
This book examines the large ‘outbreak’ by Japanese POWs from the Cowra Camp from a new perspective.
The Diggers of Colditz – The classic Australian POW story about escape from the impossible by Jack Champ and Colin Burgess – Book Review
First published in 1985 as a co-authored work with the late Jack Champ, Colin Burgess has authored a revision that incorporates an Epilogue that closes the story of all thirteen […]
