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Kenneth Morgan In this Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia; examining the main features of its history, geography, and culture and drawing attention to... | Donald Nijboer; Jim Laurier With its distinctive, twin-tailed design, the P-38 was one of the most recognizable fighter aircraft of World War II. The P-38 proved the superior fighter. This book recreates these fast... |
Craig Cormick Tells 15 stories - some iconic, many little known - of shipwreck, mutiny, piracy and marooning in the region of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, concentrating on stories from... | Hugh Ambrose The Official Companion Book to the HBO miniseries from the producers of Band of Brothers |
Ian Pfennigwerth By 1945, MacArthur's forces had advanced from Papua to the Philippines and to Borneo. The majority of the troops, supplies, and equipment for this campaign were transported by sea, and... | Ian Sumner; Graham Turner "ANZAC Infantryman, 1914-15: From New Guinea to Gallipoli". |
Geoffrey Blainey In 1769, two ships set out in search of a missing continent: a French merchant ship (the St Jean-Baptiste) commanded by Jean de Surville, and a British naval vessel (the... | Ryoko Adachi; Andrew McKay Focusing on World War 2, this book presents the deepest thoughts drawn from some 200 interviews and responses with Australian veterans. Critically, all tell of what they think of the... |
Daniel Marston The Pacific War Companion' brings together the perspectives and insights of world-reno wned military historians. From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on... | Gordon L. Rottman; Howard Gerrard In December 1941, Guam became the first Allied territory lost to the Japanese. Therefore, its recapture was both politically and psychologically of great importance. This book examines the campaign mounted... |
Terrance McGovern This title is an in-depth exploration of the defences of "Fortress Oahu". It documents the development of these complex and integrated systems and analyzes the success of the infamous Japanese... | Robert Hughes An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag... |
Ian Knight; Raffaele Ruggeri Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers. The Maori had a fierce and long-established warrior tradition and... | Mark Stille; Howard Gerrard Despite myth, the Japanese carrier force was not destroyed at Midway but survived to still prove a threat in the Pacific Theater. Nowhere was this clearer than in the battle... |
Hugh Ambrose The Official Companion Book to the HBO miniseries from the producers of Band of Brothers | Jon Cooksey Taking place two weeks after Goose Green this is the story of 3 Para and the often-neglected struggle for Mount Longdon, a battle which tested the discipline, comradeship and professionalism... |