South Pacific Air War – Volumes 1 to 3 by Michael Claringbould & Peter Ingman – Book Review
This trilogy has been written by two highly acclaimed authors who have virtually ‘lived and breathed’ the history of aviation in the South West Pacific.
This trilogy has been written by two highly acclaimed authors who have virtually ‘lived and breathed’ the history of aviation in the South West Pacific.
Everyone with a passing interest in World War 2 is familiar in a general sense with the RAF 617 Sqn attack on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany […]
In 1940 the 42nd Field Company (British Engineers) set up a bivouac straddling a dusty road running North-South near Suda Bay on Crete.
This book examines the large ‘outbreak’ by Japanese POWs from the Cowra Camp from a new perspective.
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 […]
This is another example of an Australian action that has been overshadowed by better-known military exploits.
McLeod begins her study with a strange, and to my mind irrelevant, discussion on the etymology of the Kokoda Track/Trail.
Ian McPhedran has subtitled this book ‘The Little Boat That Pulled Off Australia’s Most Daring Commando Raid of WWII’ to alert readers that this is more than another book about […]