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  • My Scrap Paper Diary

    From Snake Bite to POW 1941-1945

    Vic Petersen was a member of the 2/11th Battalion A.I.F., Army number WX 571 and found himself in the Battle of Crete on May 20th, 1941 against the Germans. He was in a section of the Allies that defended Retimo, on the Island of Crete during the German airborne invasion. Many thousands were captured by the Germans. Many others were told by Commanders to make for Sfakia on the other side of the ... Leer más

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  • Spirited Away

    Last Allied POWs on Crete December, 1941

    Series Libro 1 - Gone but Never Forgotten
    Crete 1941, Autumn, the final group of Allied Prisoners of War was being rounded up to be shipped to Germany. They were gathered at Iraklion but instead of continuing to Greece the group was split. One hundred and thirty six were placed in a convoy of lorries and sent south over the mountains. Where were they going and what were they going to be doing at their destination?No-one knew the fate of ... Leer más

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  • Black Watch

    Liberating Europe and catching Himmler - my extraordinary WW2 with the Highland Division

    de Tom Renouf ...
    As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It ended with the capture of Himmler himself and Tom taking a trophy he still treasures - the Gestapo commander's watch.Seriously wounded and later decorated with a Military Medal for gallantry, Tom Renouf witnessed the death ... Leer más

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  • By Tank into Normandy

    de Stuart Hills ...
    'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they ... Leer más

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  • Fighting Hitler from Dunkirk to D-Day

    The Story of Die Hard Jeff Haward

    "From the Battle of France through to the German unconditional surrender . . . A very welcome addition to the available direct accounts of WWII" ( Firetrench).Fighting Hitler from Dunkirk to D-Day is the compelling story of a man belonging to a group of which there are now very few survivors. Jeff Haward MM was a pre-war Territorial Army soldier who enlisted and fought throughout the entirety of ... Leer más

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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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Crete

    The Airborne Invasion, 1941

    de Tim Saunders ...
    Series series Battleground Mediterranean
    The invasion was launched to round off Hitlers Balkan Campaign against Crete in May 1941. The Island was important to Britains control of the Eastern Mediterranean and Churchill was determined that the Island would be held.The British garrison was largely made up of New Zealand and Australian troops who had been evacuated from Greece, with little more that what they stood up in. On the other hand ... Leer más

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  • In Action with the S.A.S.

    A Soldiers Odyssey from Dunkirk to Berlin

    de Roy Close ...
    A World War II memoir of a clerk who put down his pen and took up a weapon, rising through the ranks to become an elite Special Air Service soldier.Roy Close's wartime experiences make breathtaking reading. Mobilized in 1939 he became part of the BEF and was fortunate to avoid death or captivity during the German blitzkrieg and escape through Dunkirk. Sent to North Africa, he joined the Paras and, ... Leer más

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  • A Long Way Home

    One POW's story of escape and evasion during World War II

    The son of a World War I veteran, Charles Granquist was 17 when war was declared with Germany in 1939. He lied about his age, joined the infantry and was sent to Egypt. Like so many other young men at the time, Granquist did not know what to expect. All he really cared about was doing his duty and serving his country. He never even contemplated his chances of becoming a prisoner of war - he was ... Leer más

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  • Where the Flaming Hell Are We?

    The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete

    de Craig Collie ...
    The ANZ bestselling story of the fight for Greece and Crete - through the eyes of the soldiers.We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops are rushed to Greece in a desperate attempt to stop the Wehrmacht overrunning the country. Most of them overseas for ... Leer más

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  • The Youngest Battalion Commander in the AIF

    de Will Davies ...
    Known as The Boy Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks, was the youngest battalion commander in the AIF and highly regarded not only as a future military commander, but as a business and community leader.It was a blustery day on the 25th January 1920 at Palm Beach to the north of Sydney and the surf was wild. Two attempts had already been made to save a young woman caught in an undertow and ... Leer más

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  • Tobruk

    The number 1 non-fiction bestseller.More than 100,000 copies sold!'What we have, we hold'MOttO OF AUStRALIA'S 2/17tH BAttALIONIn the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons, Australia's most beloved popular historian, focuses on one of the seminal moments in Australian history: the Battle of tobruk in 1941, in which more than 15 000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - ... Leer más

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