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Book Service No. Title Description Author Conflict Branch "The Navy's here!" : the Altmark The story of the Altmark affair and the Willi Frischauer and Robert 1524 affair Battle of the River Plate. Jackson WW2 Navy A book celebrating 100 years of the Royal 100 Years of RAN Australia Navy. Royal Australian Navy Navy The 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sky Soldiers) is the U.S. Army's Contingency Response 173rd Airborne Brigade Force in Europe, Turner Publishing Army This book covers the dramatic 12 months of 1940, each chapter covering the events 1940 The World In Flames in chronological order. Richard Collier WW2 A collection of short stories of day to day survival of Australian soldiers in Changi 638 1995 Diary Changi prison camps. Neil Pigot WW2 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 Army Damian Parer and George Silk and the 200 Shots Australians at War in New Guinea. Neil MacDonald WW2 Army An illustrated chronology of the Second 349 2194 Days of War World War Cesare Salmaggi WW2 The Tunnel, The man who saved London 3 Great War Stories and Carve her name with pride. Various Authors It was the war that should never had happened, Despite warnings, diplomacy and pleading, Saddam Hussein's army 43 Days The Gulf War invaded Kuwait and refused to leave Ian Bickerton Gulf This collection of drawings, sketches and notes, made at odd times or 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 2227 6th Div Sketches Wewak. James Wieneke 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbour 2 programs used during the 75th Honouring the Past, Inspiring the Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl 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 men who flew in them, the story of "the Rabaul episode', an expose of denial of a Victoria Cross for Owen Price and a cover- up to launch the campaign for Owen 807 8 Squadron - Forgotten Hero Price's VC Roy C. Bettiens RAAF The Light Horsemen were the epitome of 2445 800 Horsemen ANZAC bravery on the battlefield. Col Stringer WW1 Army 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 battles that A Bastard of a Place changed Australia forever. Peter Brune WW2 Army Set in the 1970s, ‘’A Breed of Heroes’’ follows the deployment of young British Army officer Charles Thoroughgood on a four-month emergency tour of Northern 2459 A Breed of Heroes Ireland. Alan Judd A complete chronological account of Australians in action at home and overseas in World War II, this book records the A Chronology of Australian Armed movements of the war and the increased Forces at War 1939-45 commitment of Australian forces. Bruce T. Swain WW2 An involved look at what happened in the A Complete Analysis of the Gulf War Gulf War. Col. Harry Summers Gulf The author brilliant account of wartime A Crowd is not Company imprisonment and escape. Robert Kee WW2 As the newly 'welded' cyborg Angus Thermopyle and his distrusted companion Milos Taverner arrive in their Gap Scout, Trumpet, at the illegal outpost 2531 A Dark and Hungry God Arises in Amnion space known as Billingate, Stephen Donaldson On its final test flight, a American airliner A Different War crashes mysteriously in the Arizona desert. Craig Thomas In 1941 the "Cyclops" was torpedoed and subsequently sank. Twenty-five years later, the "Cyclops" is discovered. Virtually undamaged, she lies rotting in the land- locked harbour of Quintanilha de Almeida - several hundred miles from her radioed position. From the author of "The Trojan 2370 A Flock of Ships Hearse". Callison, Brian WW2 Navy the story of an experimental USAF nuclear powered airship, "The Grand Eagle," involved in a race against time and the Soviet aircraft carrier "Kiev" as both race to 2441 A Game of Titans reach the distant Pacific atoll of Tongareva. Gary Alan Ruse The Kamikaze mission of the A Glorious Way To Die BattleshipYamato Russell Spurr WW2 Navy A guide to Australian War Graves around A Guide to Australian War Graves the World. Robert Cleworth A Guide To Military Museums A guide of where Military Museams are. Terence Wise A Guide to the Battlefields of Europe A guide to Battlefields within Europe. David Chandler A look at happened during the years of A History 1987-2007 1987 to 2007 Allen Callagham A book portraying the battles and history of 641 A History of 2/29 Battalion 2/29 Battalion R.W. Christie Army A History of the United States - Vol 1 Covering the history from the beginning to 1857 and 2 the present R. B. Nye & Morpurgo J.E. A chronological illustrated history of warfare from the Ancient Greeks through A History of Warfare Montgomery of World War II with chapters on military Alamein thinking and the ethics of war Bernard Montgomery the story of 2/4 Australian General Hospital A Hospital At War 1940-1945. Rupert Goodman WW2 Army 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 man named Trent who has been arrested for the brutal stabbing of an Upper 2341 A Jury of Her Peers East Side schoolgirl. Jean Hanff Korelitz A pictorial record of the Burma-Thailand A Life For Every Sleeper Railway. Hugh V. Clarke WW2 A recruitment booklet showing what life in A Life In The Week Of The Army the Army involves. Royal Australian Army The Incredible Inside Story of the CIA's Hughes Glomar Explorer Mission to Raise 1735 A Matter of Risk a Russian Submarine. Roy Varner Mary Russell's adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth 2384 A Monstrous Regiment of Women in her own right. Laurier King A young man's diary reveals the fears, frustrations, and humor which filled his three years in the Navy during World War 2098 A Necessary End II. Nathaniel Benchley WW2 Navy The culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America's 469 A New Birth Of Freedom foremost scholars of American politics, Harry V. Jaffa Collection of twelve essays on consecutive 2080 A New History of Australia periods, 1788-1972. Frank Crowley The author enrolled as a trainee nurse at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, on the eve of the Second World War. Six 1876 A Nurse's War years later, as a fully qualified Sister, Brenda McBryde WW2 Army Set in the late summer and early fall of 1952, its story is told through the eyes of 2336 A Painted House 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 knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide 2545 A Perfect Spy acclaim. John Le Carre Investigating the life of a World War 1 A Photo on a Mantelpiece Australian soldier through evidence Robert Lewis WW1 Army A Pictorial History of Australians at Looking at Australians that were involved in War the wars Paul Hamly War has been a favourite theme of film makers from the earliest days of A Pictorial History of War Films commercial cinema. Clyde Jeavons Traces the life and career of the British naval hero, describes his major accomplishments, and assesses his 591 A Potrait of Lord Nelson influence on the British Navy Oliver Warner The story of a soldier serving in the 1 Aust A Rat's Tale: Tobruk to Kokoda, Corps Signals during World War 2 2097 1940 - 1945 journeying from Tobruk to Kokoda. Harold Wilson WW2 Army The Autobiography of Admiral of the Fleet A Sailor's Odyssey Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope. Andrew Cunningham Navy This is the autobiography of a distinguished commander of WWII. Serving in both wars, he was Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean at the outbreak of war, forced to cope with inadequate resources Viscount Cunningham of 1711 A Sailor's Odyssey and virtually no air cover. Hyndhope WW2 Navy an extended poem in prose written and published in 1873 by French writer Arthur 2429 A Season in Hell Rimbaud. Arthur Rimbaud The conclusion to the "Swan saga", completing a trilogy of novels that spans 100 years of American history and brings to 1593 A Season of Swans life a memorable family. Celeste De Blasis This is a tale of Jordan Maddox who has so disciplined his own emotions 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 1845 A Sentence of Life close to him. Julian Gloag In 17 minutes the dying Lycomedes will disappear beneath the North Sea forever. In 17 minutes a crew of men will be swiftly crushed of agonizingly cooked, helplessly 1894 A Ship is Dying drowned or miraculously delivered. Brian Callison It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of 1570 A Ship of the Line a ship of the line. C. S. Forester. The Vietnam of 1990 is far removed from the war-torn country of 1966, but the A Soldiers Return memories of destruction remain.
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