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  • The Battles for Kokoda Plateau

    Three weeks of hell defending the gateway to the Owen Stanleys

    'The Japanese attacked us, they mortared us, they shelled us...they did everything.'On 21 July 1942, a large Japanese reconnaissance mission landed along the north-eastern coastline of Papua, it would soon turn into an all-out attempt to capture Port Morseby. This is the powerful story of the three weeks of battle by a small Australian militia force, the 39th Battalion, supported by the 1st Papua ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Let the Bastards Come

    The Battle for Kapyong Korea, 23 – 25 April 1951

    Anzac Day 2024 represents the 73rd anniversary of the critical battle of Kapyong (23 to 25 April 1951) This book for the first time tells the full story of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American units involved. Fewer than 1,000 Australian and Canadian infantrymen, supported by New Zealand artillery and 15 American Sherman tanks fought off an entire Chinese Division of over 12,000 men ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Give the Bastards Hell

    The Battle for Milne Bay, New Guinea 1942

    In New Guinea’s jungles, a fierce battle turned the tide of the Pacific War—the first major land defeat for the unstoppable Japanese forces.By mid-August 1942, Imperial Japanese forces dominated the Southeast Asian and Pacific theatres, seemingly unstoppable in their advance. While the Japanese South Seas Force pushed north toward Port Moresby along the Kokoda Track, they launched an operation ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Saving Port Moresby

    Fighting at the end of the Kokoda Track

    Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Battles in New Guinea David W. Cameron one of Australia's leading military historians new Kokoda Campaign series will take you from the Battle for Isurava to Port Morseby and finally the retaking of Kokoda. For the first time, these significant battles of Australian troops are comprehensively explored.After taking Kokoda Plateau in late July 1942, Japanese ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Convict-era Port Arthur

    Misery of the deepest dye

    Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O’Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Sanananda: a Bastard of a Place

    The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942-43

    With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November 1942, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track to the north coast of Papua New Guinea, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachhead at Gona, Buna and Sanananda.The end of the Kokoda Campaign in mid-November 1942 marked a turning point for the Australians, but the fighting was far from over ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Bloody Buna

    The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942

    With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachhead at Gona, Sanananda and Buna.The end of the Kokoda Campaign in mid-November 1942 marked a turning point for the Australians, but the fighting was far from over. Within days, the battles for the three ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Retaking Kokoda

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Death on Bloody Ridge

    Chunuk Bair - the battle that decided the fate of the Gallipoli Campaign

    Series series A Shot of History
    The August Offensive or ‘Anzac Breakout’ at Gallipoli was an attempt to break the stalemate of the campaign. It saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the landing as Commonwealth and Turkish troops fought desperate battles at Lone Pine, German Officers’ Trench, Turkish Quinn’s, The Chessboard, The Nek, The Farm, Hill Q, Chunuk Bair, and Hill 971. The offensive was designed to allow the allied ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Our Friend the Enemy

    A detailed account of ANZAC from both sides of the wire

    Our Friend the Enemy is the first detailed history of the Gallipoli campaign at Anzac since Charles Bean’s Official History. Viewed from both sides of the wire and described in first-hand accounts. Australian Captain Herbert Layh recounted that as they approached the beach on 25 April that, once we were behind cover the Turks turned their .. [fire] on us, and gave us a lively 10 minutes. A poor ... Leer más

    $6.04 USD

  • Assassination of the Butcher of Prague

    Reinhard Heydrich Hitler's Protégé

    Series series A Shot of History
    On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figurers of the Nazi Third Riech, Reinhard, Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’ and architect of the ‘Final solution’, died from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt carried out just days before. His death caused shockwaves in the Nazi State, and resulted in savage reprisals, with Hitler ordering the annihilation of two village populations thought to ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Bones, Stones and Molecules

    "Out of Africa" and Human Origins

    Bones, Stones and Molecules provides some of the best evidence for resolving the debate between the two hypotheses of human origins. The debate between the 'Out of Africa' model and the 'Multiregional' hypothesis is examined through the functional and developmental processes associated with the evolution of the human skull and face and focuses on the significance of the Australian record. The book ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD