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February Newsletter
Military History Books (Australia)
A small but nice list of New & Used books that have arrived recently, with some not often seen on the market these days.
For further specific details please head to the online store. One or two of these books may not have been listed yet, so if you can’t find what you are after, please contact us. If you are after a book but it is marked out of stock, we may be able to get another copy in for you!
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Just released
- Wounds and Scars by Ron Austin (2nd Australian Field Ambulance)
- The Second Fourteenth Battalion (recently reprinted)
- Colour Patch (2/14th Machine Gun Battalion. An extensive history of this unit, covering their POW experiences. A mini biography of each member is included. World War 2.)
- Strike Swiftly, The Australian Commando Story (From World War 2 to the Cold War Era)
- Mosquito Monograph (A History of Mosquitoes in Australia & R.A.A.F Operations in World War 2).
- Swift To Destroy (An Illustrated history of 77 Squadron RAAF 1942-1992.)
- The First At War (The story of the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945)
- Kilted Battalion (The history of the 16th Infantry Battalion (The Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia) This history covers from 1936-1960)
- Wheatbelt Warriors ( WA’s 15th Battalion, Volunteer Defence Corps World War 2)
- Of Storms and Rainbows Volume 1 (2/12th Infantry Battalion 1939-1942)
- Die Like The Carp (The Cowra Prison Escape)
- Milne Bay As We Lived It (By Former Members of the 7th Australian Infantry Brigade Signals Section {Formerly “J” Section 5th Division Signals)
- Escape (A thousand Miles to Freedom) & sequel Hunted (The Story of the Coast watchers)
- The Team (Australian Army Advisers in Vietnam 1962-1972)
- In All Respects (Part of the service life of HMAS Ipswich)
- Up North In Forty Three (The Story of a Spitfire Squadron in the Island War ’79 Squadron’)
- Whereabouts Unknown (The story of those who disappeared after the fall of Rabaul 1942, and the woman who waited)
- The Duke (The Heroes Hero at Sandakan)
- Contact (A history of the Australian Army, Air Force & Navy personal served in the Vietnam war from 1962-1972)
- To The Green Fields Beyond (The Story of the 6th Division Cavalry Commandos)
- HMAS Bendigo-Corvette (By members of her ships company)
- Under Two Flags ( The Story of French Reservists living in Australia who were called for war service in Indochina 1940-1941)
- The Independents (A very short, but interesting history of the training of the 2/2 Independent Company, mostly in Verse Narrative)
- History of the 2/2 Commando & 2/2 independent Company (World War 2)
- Double Reds of Timor (The history of the 2/2 Independent Company in Timor World War 2.)
- An abridged history and anecdotes of the 2/13th Australian Field Ambulance AIF 1940 – 1945.
- Wewak Mission (Coast watchers in New Guinea)
- Eight Hundred Million Candlepower (Journals of the 67th Anti Aircraft Searchlight Battery 1942-1945)
- All The Bulls Men (No. 2 Australian Independent Company (2/2 Commando Squadron)
- Gull Force ( Survival and leadership in captivity 1941-1945)
- City of Perth (The history of the 2/11th (City of Perth) Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945, World War 2)
- Mud and Blood, Albury’s Own (The Second Twenty Third Australian Infantry Battalion, Ninth Australian Division)
- Mud Over Blood (Stories From The 39th Infantry Battalion 1942-1943. Kokoda to Gona)
- Mercy Trains (Australian Army Ambulance Trains in World War 2)
- Australia’s Forgotten Volunteers (North Australian Railway in World War 2. Interstate railway men at the top end of the Northern Territory World War 2)
- The Anzac Battalion 1967-68
- The Anzac Battalion 1970-71 (1st edition with dj, and extremely rare)
- Carrying On Under Fire And In Captivity (Stories from the 8th Division Australian Army Medical Corps Under Malaya Command)
- Little Hell (The story of the 2/22nd Battalion and Lark Force)
- Tobruk to Tarakan (The 2/48th Battalion, World War 2)
- Bravery Above Blunder (A dramatic account of the 9th Australian Division in New Guinea 1943-44)
- Curtin’s Cowboys (Australia’s Secret Bush Commandos)
- To Hellfire, Purgatory and Back (An account of the battle exploits and Prisoner of War experiences of Major A E Saggers, Commanding Officer ‘A’ Company, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion & Special Reserve Battalion AIF)
- Port Moresby to Gona Beach (History of the 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion at Port Moresby and Gona Beach 1942)
- Silent 7th (A comprehensive textual and photographic history of the Australian 7th division)
- Commando White Diamond (Memoir of service of the 2/8th Commando Squadron. Australian and the Southwest Pacific 1942-1945)
- 13 Squadron Story (No 13 Squadron RAAF 1940-1946 World War 2)
- Medical Soldiers (2/10th Australian Field Ambulance 8 Division 1940 – 1945)
- Care, Courage & Comradeship (A History of the 2/10th Field Ambulance (AIF) in WW2)
- Story of J Force (300 Troops 8 Division A.I.F. Singapore to Japan. POW camps with American British & Allied troops)
- 2/4th Field Regiment (A History of a Royal Australian Artillery Regiment during World War 2. Limited edition of 300 copies)
- Australian Army Badges (Cloth Insignia of the Australian Army, 1860-1993)
- Vietnam: (A Pictorial History of the Sixth Battalion Royal Australian Regiment 1966-67)
- Grey Eight In Vietnam ( The History of the Eighth Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment November 1969 to November 1970)
- Kokoda Commander (The Life of Major-General Tubby Allen)
- Warrior of Kokoda (The Biography of Brigadier Arnold Potts)
- Australia’s Forgotten Army (Volume 2. Defending the Northern Gateways Northern Territory and Torres Strait 1938-1945)
- Purple Devils (A History of the 2/6th Commando Squadron, formally the 2/6th Independent Squadron 1942-1946)
- From Blue to Khaki, The Band of the 2/22nd Battalion. ( The story of the 2/22nd Battalion Bandsman and their fate at the fall of Rabaul)
- Brave Lads (3 RAR in South Vietnam 1967-1968)
- Milne Bay 1942 (The Story of Milne Force and Japans First Military Defeat on Land)
