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  • RAAF Black Cats

    The secret history of the covert Catalina mine-laying operations to cripple Japan's war machine

    by John Suter Linton, Robert Cleworth ...
    The secret and dangerous operations of Australia's Pacific War Catalina crews told for the first time.In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missing in action. No details were ever given about the incident that took his life, nor the reason his plane went down. For Reg's younger brother, Robert, the news came as a fulfilling prophecy. The last ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    RAAF Black Cats

    by Robert Cleworth, John Suter Linton ...
    Narrated by David Tredinnick ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missing in action. No details were ever given about the incident that took his life, nor the reason his plane went down. For Reg’s younger brother, Robert, the news came as a prophecy fulfilled. The last time they saw each other, Reg confided in Robert, ‘I don’t think I’m coming back’. Forty years later ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse

    From the Australian bush to the Battle of Beersheba - an epic story of courage, resilience and derring-do

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    On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened in the next hour changed the course of history.This brave battle and the extraordinary ... Read more

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  • Turning Point

    The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat in World War II

    by Michael Veitch ...
    The Battle for Milne Bay - Japan's first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their finest - though now largely forgotten - hour. Forgotten, until now.In August 1942, Japan's forces were unstoppable. Having ... Read more

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  • The Men Who Came Out of the Ground

    A gripping account of Australia's first commando campaign

    by Paul Cleary ...
    'This account . . . is breathtaking in its scope and riveting in its research' - Sydney Morning HeraldThe gripping story of a small force of Australian Special Forces commandos that launched relentless hit and run raids on far superior Japanese forces in East Timor for most of 1942.These Australians were the men of the 2/2nd Australian Independent Company - a special commando unit. Initially ... Read more

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  • The Legend of Albert Jacka

    From the brutal shores of Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, the epic story of the first Australian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross in WW1

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become.Albert 'Bert' Jacka was 21 when Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914. Bert soon enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and the young private was assigned to 14th Battalion D Company. By the time they shipped out to ... Read more

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  • Retaking Kokoda

    The Battles for Templeton's Crossing, Eora Creek and the Oivi-Gorari positions

    by David W. Cameron ...
    Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, had the Australians on the back foot. Australia was holding the last defendable ridge in the Owen Stanley ranges, Imita Ridge. Horii to his distress was then given orders from Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo that he was to fall back across the mountains to the Japanese beachheads at Gona, Sanananda, and Buna, leaving a force ... Read more

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