A Merciful Journey : Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man by Marsden Hordern
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In "A Merciful Journey", Marsden Hordern presents a vivid and compelling account of his full and happy childhood growing up in Sydney through his years serving in the Royal Australian Navy from 1942 to 1947. He details his rise from a young and callow sublieutenant to a lieutenant in command of his own ...Show more
Rescue at 2100 Hours by Tom Trumble
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February 1942. The Japanese invasion of Timor has begun and attempts to evacuate a group of 29 Australian airmen, charged with keeping an airfield operational until the last moment, are thwarted. Under the leadership of Bryan Rofe, a 24-year-old meteorological officer, the airmen make for remote jungle ...Show more
Bluejackets and Boxers - Australia's Naval Expedition to the Boxer Uprising by Bob Nicholls
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British Infantry Uniforms Since 1660 by Michael Barthorp
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Ring of Fire : Australian Guerrilla Operations Against the Japanese in World War II by Dick Horton
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British Army Uniforms and Insignia of WW II by Brian L. Davis
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The Decades of a Duntroon Bastard by Godfrey Robinson
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Coldstream Guards : Dress and Appointments, 1658-1972 by Charles Stadden
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Kokoda Spirit by Patrick Lindsay
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The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolised the Anzac spirit in WWI, then Kokoda is its WWII equivalent. In August 1942, Kokoda was a killing field. Today, it is hard to imagine what those young men endured for our freedom but the journey gives some clues. The track pla ...Show more
Patrick O'Brian's Navy - The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World by Richard O'Neill
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
From the moment that Master and Commander, the first of Patrick O'Brian's sequence of novels about the 19th century naval office Jack Aubrey and his surgeon colleague Stephen Maturin, was published in 1970, critics hailed the book as a masterpiece of historical recreation. Patrick O'Brian died in 2000 n ...Show more