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  • Close to the Wind

    A Story of Escape and Survival out of the Ashes of Singapore 1942

    by David B. Hill ...
    In May 1940, a group of Auckland yachtsmen who were members of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve left for the war. Leonard Hill, a young Maori sailor, and his friends arrived in Singapore under siege. Playing to their strengths as small boat sailors, they manned fast motor launches, raiding and rescuing Allies from behind enemy lines. On the night of 13 February 1942, the eve of the fall of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Electoral Challenge

    Theory Meets Practice

    Edited by David B. Hill, Stephen C. Craig ...
    What decides elections? Is it the national economic condition, voters’ partisan attachments, or the campaigns that candidates run? How much do campaigns matter? Scholars and political consultants will give you different answers. Stephen C. Craig and David B. Hill bring together the voices of both in this engaging volume, now updated to include the volatile and groundbreaking 2008 campaigns and ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Victoria's Lost Pavilion

    From Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics to Digital Humanities

    by Paul Fyfe, Antony Harrison, David B. Hill, Sharon L. Joffe, Sharon M. Setzer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the significance of the now-lost pavilion built in the Buckingham Palace Gardens in the time of Queen Victoria for understanding experiments in British art and architecture at the outset of the Victorian era. It introduces the curious history of the garden pavilion, its experimental contents, the controversies of its critical reception, and how it has been digitally remediated. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Better the Day

    by David O'Neil ...
    From the author favorably referred to W.E.B. Griffin of the United Kingdom, David O'Neil, comes an exciting saga of spies and romance, action and adventure, war and love, mystery and suspense as Peter Murray and his brother officers in Coastal Forces face overwhelming odds fighting German E-boats, the German Navy and the Luftwaffe in action in the Channel, the Mediterranean, Norway and the Baltic ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One of Our Submarines

    by Edward Young ...
    Series series Pen & Sword Military Classics
    "[Young] immortalized his distinguished war service as a submariner in the bestselling autobiography, One of Our Submarines . . . [a] gripping memoir."— The Guardian"In the very highest rank of books about the last war. Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years' adventures in them in a good stout book with excitement on every page. He writes beautifully, economically ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Cruiser

    The Life And Loss Of HMAS Perth And Her Crew

    by Mike Carlton ...
    **The definitive biography of the Australian cruiser HMAS Perth, and the brave men who sailed with her.**Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth. Most were young - many were still teenagers - from cities and towns, villages and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Rescue at 2100 Hours

    by Tom Trumble ...
    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 along the northwest coast. All attempts to rescue the group fail. Malaria-ravaged and starving, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Alarm Starboard!

    A Remarkable True Story of the War at Sea

    by Geoffrey Brooke ...
    "Much more than a mere catalogue of a naval officer's experiences of war . . . All-in-all an excellent read and very highly recommended." —World Ship SocietyThe author's naval war experiences make the most exciting reading. After being mined on the battleship Nelson in 1939, he served on the Prince of Wales, during the Bismarck action, witnessing the sinking of the Hood and Churchill and Roosevelt ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Navy Divers

    The Incredible Story of the Australian Navy's Elite Unit

    by Gregor Salmon ...
    The Incredible story of the Australian Navy's elite unit.Rising out of the Second World War, the Australian clearance diver has become one of the most respected and versatile operators in the military world. In cold, murky water, working by touch alone, the Australian clearance diver can defuse a mine powerful enough to sink a battleship. Under the burning Afghan sun, they can dismantle a Taliban ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Solomons Seal

    by Hammond Innes ...
    'It was a weapon fashioned by somebody with experience and understanding of a deadly primitive craft, and the red paint on the tip could be nothing else but a simulation of the blood of the intended victim. The masked doll and the weapon, the two together…and the blood-red sky fading above me. I felt suddenly cold and appalled'.When Perenna Holland, descendant of a once powerful shipping family, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Black Water: By Strength and By Guile

    by Don Camsell ...
    Don Camsell joined the men in black of the SBS in 1974. From the deserts of Oman to the hills of Port Stanley, from the bottom of Gibraltar harbour to the deep, cold, black waters of Loch Long and from the QE2 to the back alleys of Belfast, his new role demanded that Don fought in just about every theatre of war - overt or covert. ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • The Bulldog Track

    A grandson's story of an ordinary man's war and survival on the other Kokoda trail

    by Peter Phelps ...
    This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found work as a carpenter in the goldfields of the New Guinea Highlands. No one expected the Japanese ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook