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Battle on 42nd Street – War in Crete and the Anzac’s bloody last stand by Peter Monteath – Book Review

In 1940 the 42nd Field Company (British Engineers) set up a bivouac straddling a dusty road running North-South near Suda Bay on Crete.

Anzac & Aviator – The remarkable story of Sir Ross Smith and the 1919 England to Australia Air Race by Michael Molkentin – Book Review

Drawing on the rich and extensive collection of Ross Smith’s private papers, Anzac & Aviator is a biography of a quite remarkable Australian.

The Man Inside – The Bloodiest Outbreak by Graham Apthorpe – Book Review

This book examines the large ‘outbreak’ by Japanese POWs from the Cowra Camp from a new perspective.

The Diggers of Colditz – The classic Australian POW story about escape from the impossible by Jack Champ and Colin Burgess – Book Review

First published in 1985 as a co-authored work with the late Jack Champ, Colin Burgess has authored a revision that incorporates an Epilogue that closes the story of all thirteen […]

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