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The Altmark Affair Royal Australian Title Description Author Conflict "The Navy's here!" : the Altmark affair The story of the Altm ark affair and the Battle of the River Plate. W illi Frischauer and Robert Jackson W W 2 100 Years of RAN A book celebrating 100 years of the Royal Australia Navy. Royal Australian Navy The 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sky Soldiers) is the U.S. Arm y's Contingency 173rd Airborne Brigade Response Force in Europe, Turner Publishing This book covers the dramatic 12 m onths of 1940, each chapter covering 1940 The W orld In Flames the events in chronological order. Richard Collier W W 2 A collection of short stories of day to day survival of Australian soldiers in 1995 Diary Changi Changi prison cam ps. Neil Pigot W W 2 2 NZEF IP 4 Volumes The History of the 2 NZEF Oliver A. Gillespie 2/9 Bn Book of Statistics A Statistical report of the 2/9 Battalion Boyd Redshaw 200 Shots Damian Parer and George Silk and the Australians at W ar in New Guinea. Neil MacDonald W W 2 2194 Days of W ar TAhni sill ucosltleractetiodn c ohfr odnraowloingyg so,f sthke tScheecso nadn dW noortlde sW, marade at odd tim es or Cesare Salmaggi W W 2 whenever possible, is presented in book form with the hope that it will tell something of the Australian Soldier's life and journey with the Sixth Australian Division in northern New Guinea; through Aitape, Mprik and 6th Div Sketches W ewak. James W ieneke 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbour Honouring the 2 program s used during the 75th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Past, Inspiring the Future Programs Harbour. Pearl Harbour Memorial Squadron Leader Owen Price, No. 8 Squadron's forgotten hero : being a research report about RAAF Beauforts and the m en who flew in them, the story of "the Rabaul episode', an expose of denial of a Victoria Cross for 8 Squadron - Forgotten Hero Owen Price and a cover-up to launch the cam paign for Owen Price's VC Roy C. Bettiens 800 Horsemen The Light Horsem en were the epitom e of ANZAC bravery on the battlefield. Col Stringer W W 1 In 1942 and early 1943 Papua New Guinea was 'a bastard of a place' to fight a war. Peter Brune gives us the final, all-encompassing story of the five A Bastard of a Place battles that changed Australia forever. Peter Brune W W 2 Set in the 1970s, ‘’A Breed of Heroes’’ follows the deployment of young British Army officer Charles Thoroughgood on a four-m onth em ergency tour A Breed of Heroes of Northern Ireland. Alan Judd A com plete chronological account of Australians in action at hom e and A Chronology of Australian Armed Forces at W ar overseas in W orld W ar II, this book records the movem ents of the war and 1939-45 the increased com mitment of Australian forces. Bruce T. Swain W W 2 A Complete Analysis of the Gulf W ar An involved look at what happened in the Gulf W ar. Col. Harry Summers Gulf As the newly 'welded' cyborg Angus Therm opyle and his distrusted companion Milos Taverner arrive in their Gap Scout, Trumpet, at the illegal A Dark and Hungry God Arises outpost in Am nion space known as Billingate, Stephen Donaldson On its final test flight, a American airliner crashes m ysteriously in the Arizona A Different W ar Inde 1s9er4t1. the "Cyclops" was torpedoed and subsequently sank. Twenty-five Craig Thomas years later, the "Cyclops" is discovered. Virtually undam aged, she lies rotting in the land-locked harbour of Quintanilha de Alm eida - several hundred m iles from her radioed position. From the author of "The Trojan A Flock of Ships Hearse". Callison, Brian W W 2 the story of an experim ental USAF nuclear powered airship, "The Grand Eagle," involved in a race against tim e and the Soviet aircraft carrier "Kiev" A Game of Titans as both race to reach the distant Pacific atoll of Tongareva. Gary Alan Ruse A Glorious W ay To Die The Kam ikaze mission of the BattleshipYam ato Russell Spurr W W 2 A Guide to Australian W ar Graves A guide to Australian W ar Graves around the W orld. Robert Cleworth A Guide To Military Museums A guide of where Military Museams are. Terence W ise A Guide to the Battlefields of Europe A guide to Battlefields within Europe. David Chandler A History 1987-2007 A look at happened during the years of 1987 to 2007 Allen Callagham A History of 2/29 Battalion A book portraying the battles and history of 2/29 Battalion R.W . Christie A History of the United States - Vol 1 and 2 Covering the history from the beginning to the present R. B. Nye & Morpurgo J.E. A chronological illustrated history of warfare from the Ancient Greeks A History of W arfare Montgomery of Alamein through W orld W ar II with chapters on m ilitary thinking and the ethics of war Bernard Montgomery A Hospital At W ar the story of 2/4 Australian General Hospital 1940-1945. Rupert Goodman W W 2 This fast-moving legal thriller, an accomplished first novel, follows New York City Legal Aid lawyer Sybylla Muldoon as she prepares to defend a once-gentle homeless m an nam ed Trent who has been arrested for the A Jury of Her Peers brutal stabbing of an Upper East Side schoolgirl. Jean Hanff Korelitz A Life In The W eek Of The Army A recruitm ent booklet showing what life in the Arm y involves. Royal Australian Army The Incredible Inside Story of the CIA's Hughes Glomar Explorer Mission to A Matter of Risk Raise a Russian Submarine. Roy Varner Mary Russell's adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective A Monstrous Regiment of W omen Sherlock Holm es and as an ever m ore skilled sleuth in her own right. Laurier King A young man's diary reveals the fears, frustrations, and humor which filled A Necessary End his three years in the Navy during W orld W ar II. Nathaniel Benchley W W 2 The culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of A New Birth Of Freedom America's foremost scholars of American politics, Harry V. Jaffa A New History of Australia Collection of twelve essays on consecutive periods, 1788-1972. Frank Crowley The author enrolled as a trainee nurse at the Royal Victoria Infirm ary, Newcastle, on the eve of the Second W orld W ar. Six years later, as a fully A Nurse's W ar qualified Sister, Brenda McBryde W W 2 Set in the late summ er and early fall of 1952, its story is told through the A Painted House eyes of seven-year-old Luke Chandler. John Grisham John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and A Perfect Spy knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. John Le Carre A Photo on a Mantelpiece Investigating the life of a W orld W ar 1 Australian soldier through evidence Robert Lewis W W 1 A Pictorial History of Australians at W ar Looking at Australians that were involved in the wars Paul Hamly Traces the life and career of the British naval hero, describes his major A Potrait of Lord Nelson accom plishm ents, and assesses his influence on the British Navy Oliver W arner The story of a soldier serving in the 1 Aust Corps Signals during W orld W ar A Rat's Tale: Tobruk to Kokoda, 1940 - 1945 2 journeying from Tobruk to Kokoda. Harold W ilson W W 2 The Autobiography of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of A Sailor's Odyssey Hyndhope. Andrew Cunningham This is the autobiography of a distinguished com mander of W W II. Serving in both wars, he was Com m ander-in-Chief Mediterranean at the outbreak of A Sailor's Odyssey war, forced to cope with inadequate resources and virtually no air cover. Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope W W 2 an extended poem in prose written and published in 1873 by French A Season in Hell writer Arthur Rim baud. Arthur Rimbaud The conclusion to the "Swan saga", completing a trilogy of novels that spans A Season of Swans T10h0is yise aar sta olef Aofm Jeorridcan Mhisatdodryo xa nwdh ob rhinagss s too dlifisec aip mlineemd ohriasb olew fna memilyo.tions Celeste De Blasis that he has, in reality, little contact with life: indifferent, he no longer responds to the signs of love-even of desperation- from those who are close A Sentence of Life to him . Julian Gloag In 17 minutes the dying Lycom edes will disappear beneath the North Sea forever. In 17 m inutes a crew of m en will be swiftly crushed of agonizingly A Ship is Dying cooked, helplessly drowned or m iraculously delivered. Brian Callison It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of A Ship of the Line a ship of the line. C. S. Forester. Sean Courtney, who m ade and lost £5 million on the goldfields of the W itwatersrand and fought his way through the bloody battlefields of the Anglo-Boer W ar, now m akes his final appearance as soldier, statesman and A Sparrow Falls power in the land. W ilbur Smith A suitable piece of real estate : American installations in Australia A book covering the Am erican Installations in Australia Desmond Ball A Thousand Shall Fall: The Electrifying Story of a Soldier and His Fam ily A Thousand Shall Fall W ho Dared to Practice Their Faith in Hitler's Germany Susi Hasel Mundy Title Description Author Conflict During the m onths right before the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam , Bradley Marshall is sent to Viet Nam to bring back critical inform ation that will allow the President of the United States to overrule his m ilitary advisors and pull A Time of W ar American troops out of the conflict.
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