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Beneath Hill 60 by Will Davies
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
On 7 June 1917, 19 massive mines shattered the Messines ridge near Ypres. Ten thousand German soldiers died and the largest man-made explosion in history up until that time smashed open the German frontline. Two of these mines, at Hill 60 and the Caterpillar, were fired my men of the 1st Australian Tunn ...Show more
Beneath Hill 60: The Australian Miners' Secret Warfare Beneath the Trenches of the Western Front by Will Davies
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
We all remember images from WWI of massive artillery barrages and soldiers crossing shattered landscapes towards certain slaughter. Beneath these killing fields of the Western Front, another war was taking place, a deadly game 30 meters down, played between thousands of troops. These were not infantryme ...Show more
In the Footsteps of Private Lynch by Will Davies
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Retrace Australia's role in the First World War from the trenches of Somme Mud to the wider war on the Western Front. Imagine this. You are a country boy and just eighteen. The war has been raging for two years and because of your age, you have not been eligible for enlistment. Your mates, older by a fe ...Show more
Secret and Special (PB) by Will Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE) and called the Inter-allied Services Department. The unit was tasked with the role to "obtain and report information of the enemy ... weaken ...Show more
The Boy Colonel by Will Davies
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
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 sur ...Show more
The Last 100 Days - The Australian Road to Victory in the First World War by Will Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In March 1918, with the fear of a one-million-man American army landing in France, the Germans attacked. In response, Australian soldiers were involved in a number of engagements, culminating in the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux and the saving of Amiens, and Paris, from German occupation.Then came ...Show more
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