Black Saturday by Alexander McKee

$10.00 AUD

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Anzacs BetrayedThe Story of the 2nd d&e Platoon in Vietnam by Don Tate

$110.00 AUD

Category: MILITARY HISTORY

May 1969 the Vietnam War Atrocities, Curruption, Murder. The Falsification of History. Anzacs Betrayed is a companion piece to the best-selling memoir, The War Within. Don Tate now provides an in-depth analysis of one of the most sordid matters in Australian military history, the deletion of the 2nd D&a mp;E Platoon from all the histories of the Vietnam War and his 38 year battle to have it reinstated. It is a story of many parts- but at it's heart, it is a story of betrayal. Not only the betrayal of the thirty-nine Infantry Privates who formed the ad hoc, 2nd D&E Platoon in Vietnam during 1969, but a story the gatekeepers of our military heritage don't want told- the 'red hats' of the military establishment, and the historians of the Australian War Memorial. And there is good reason why- because it turns on its head the romanticised image of Anzac and the noble traditions of the Australian Defence Force. Don Tate volunteered to go to the Vietnam War as a naive, but patriotic nineteen year old boy in 1969 and served as an infantry reinforcement with three units - the 4th Battalion, the 2nd D&E Platoon, and the 9th Battalion. He was badly wounded in action on the 19th July 1969 and was hospitalised for more than two years. Many years later, he learned that not only hadn't he been recorded with the 9th Battalion, but that all trace of the 2nd D&E Platoon had been erased from the histories of the Vietnam War. Worse, that the curruptions of his service records (and those of every man who fought in the platoon) was the result of a cover-up of atrocities that reached the highest levels of the military and the government. ...Show more

The Team - Australian Army Advisers in Vietnam 1962-1972 by Ian McNeill

$55.00 AUD

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THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA'S INVOLVEMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONFLICTS 1948-1975 - 9 VOLUME SET by VARIOUS

$1600.00 AUD

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NO FLYING WITHOUT WINGS - SIGNED by COLIN BAYLISS

$35.00 AUD

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Air Force: Inside the New Era of Australian Air Power by Ian McPhedran

$10.00 AUD

$35.00 (71% off)

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Mission 101: The Untold Story of Five Australian Soldiers' Extraordinary War in Ethiopia by Duncan McNab

$20.00 AUD

$34.99 (42% off)

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In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the second world war's most daring operations. Leading a small force of Ethiopian freedom fighters on an epic trek across the harsh African bush from the Sudan, the small incursion force entered Italian-occupied E thiopia and began waging a guerilla war against the 250,000-strong Italian army. One of these men, Ken Burke, was Duncan McNab's uncle. Using a combination of fascinating research and personal anecodotes, McNab tells the little-known story of Mission 101, and how a small group of Australians helped free a nation. ...Show more

The Spell Broken - Exploding the Myth of Japanese Invincibility: Milne Bay to Buna-Sanananda 1942-43 by Peter Brune

$15.00 AUD

$29.95 (49% off)

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Tells the story of how the Australian 18th brigade inflicted the first defeat on land of the Japanese army in World War 2.

Australian Heroines of World War One by Susanna de Vries

$20.00 AUD

$34.95 (42% off)

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Australian Heroines of World War One is the story of eight courageous women through diaries, letters, original photos, paintings and maps. These eight women had the courage and strength for which the Anzacs are renowned and the compassion and tenderness that only a woman can bring. One brave nursing sis ter Hilda Samsing became a whistleblower. Nursing aboard the hospital ship Gascon, outraged by the bungled evacuation of wounded Anzacs which was censored out of the press she let her diary be shown in high places which raised questions in the House of Commons. In Belgium, Louise Creed, a Sydney journalist caught in the besieged city of Antwerp made a hair-raising escape from a German firing squad and lived to tell the tale. Brisbane's Grace Wilson, ordered to establish an emergency hospital on drought ridden Lemnos Island, arrived there to find suffering Anzacs but no drinking water, tents or medical supplies. Grace and her nurses tore up their petticoats to use as bandages, survived for weeks on bully beef and biscuits and saved the lives of thousands wounded at Lone Pine and the Nek. In November 1915 after a blizzard hit the trenches of Gallipoli they cared for Anzacs with frostbitten or gangrenous feet. After surviving hardship on Lemnos, young Florence James-Wallace works in France near the front line in a Casualty Clearing, treating soldiers with hideous wounds or blinded by mustard gas. The Germans emerged from their trenches and advanced as Florence and her stretcher cases escaped by lorry. In 1918 after years spent nursing men smashed and pulverised by machine gun fire she faced yet another challenge - an epidemic of Spanish flu. They returned to a world that only recognised male courage and were quickly forgotten, two of them awarded such meagre pensions they died destitute and forgotten. "This book will become compulsory reading for every Australian." Dame Elizabeth Murdoch, convinced of the significance of these stories graciously assisted the funding of this book. ...Show more

Vulcan Test Pilot : My Experiences in the Cockpit of a Cold War Icon - SIGNED by Tony Blackman

$50.00 AUD

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In 2007, a restored Avro Vulcan Mark 2 - XH558 - took to the skies to help commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. To coincide with this the memoirs of one of its test pilots, Tony Blackman, was published to great acclaim. Now the first book about test flying this monumental delta-wi ng aircraft which dominated the history of the late 20th century is available in paperback. Tony is the ideal man to write such a tale as he flew no less than 105 of the 136 built, logging 850 flights at over 1,327 hours. His book describes in layman's terms what it was like to tame the first prototypes and to master the unusual characteristics necessitated by the Vulcan's shape. Although Tony puts the developments, demonstrations, incidents and accidents in their political and historical context, his story is a highly personal one. He explains how this awesome aircraft became a national treasure and captured the imagination of the whole country. ...Show more

Ridgway's Paratroopers - The American Airborne in World War II by Clay Blair

$55.00 AUD

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The Drama of the Scharnhorst - A Factual Account from the German Viewpoint by Fritz-Otto Busch

$10.00 AUD

$19.95 (49% off)

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Wordsworth Military Library

'Scharnhorst sunk by British naval forces 60 sea miles NW of North Cape, 26th December, 1943 at 19 hours 45'.