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Phantoms of Bribie The Jungles of Vietnam to Corporate Life and Everything in Between
ISBN: PB: 9781925275575, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
320 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps
The Phantoms of Bribie is a highly readable blend of an engaging yarn and a fascinating portrayal of operational service in Vietnam as an infantry company commander, leading some 100 fine young national service and regular soldiers in close quarter j...
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£19,00
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Murder at the Fort A Double Homicide Cold Case and Cover Up!
ISBN: PB: 9781925520118, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
324 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps
Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was found on the side of the road. He had been shot a number of times with a military revolver. Despite extensive enquiries by some of the Victoria Police's...
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£19,00
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Battles Before Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership after the Vietnam War
ISBN: PB: 9781925520194, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
136 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm, 50 colour illus.
Much of Australia's military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? "The Battles Before" examines the role of senior leaders in...
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£13,00
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Charles Family's War A Gripping Story of Twin Brothers During World War II
ISBN: PB: 9781925275285, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
296 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Edwin Llewellyn Charles was a slim, handsome youth, but Terence John, his brother, was beautiful and he knew it. Technically, the boys were twins, but their personalities could not have been more different. So begins this sweeping true story of a f...
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£19,00
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Lessons Learned The Australian Military and Tropical Medicine
ISBN: HB: 9781925520224, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
276 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 illus. and maps
Historically, prolonged campaigns have been frequently lost or won because of the greater fitness of one of the combatant armies. In the twentieth century, infection was still a major problem, leading to withdrawal from Gallipoli, and the near defeat...
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£19,00
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Letters From Timor
ISBN: PB: 9781921941009, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
250 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 50 illus. and maps
Chaplain Graeme Ramsden served in Vietnam as a soldier and subsequently studied theology and was ordained as a deacon of the Roman Catholic Church. He commenced duties as a chaplain in the Australian Regular Army and was deployed on operations to sup...
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£15,00
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Eureka Stockade A Ferocious and Bloody Battle
ISBN: PB: 9781922132048, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
236 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm
"Eureka Stockade: A Ferocious and Bloody Battle", is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial g...
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£9,00
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More Than Bombs and Bandages Australian Army Nurses at Work in World War I
ISBN: HB: 9780980814057, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
352 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm
"More than Bombs and Bandages" exposes the false assumption that military nurses only nursed. Based on author Kirsty Harris' CEW Bean Prize winning PhD thesis, this is a book that is far removed from the 'devotion to duty' stereotyping offering an in...
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£14,00
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Backroom Boys Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46
ISBN: HB: 9781921941122, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
416 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm
"The Backroom Boys" is the remarkable, but little known, story of how a varied group of talented intellectuals, drafted into the Australian Army in the dark days of 1942, provided high-level policy advice to Australia's most senior soldier, General B...
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£14,00
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Do Unto Others Counter Bombardment in Australia's Military Campaigns
ISBN: HB: 9780987057440, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
448 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm
Since 1899, the significant role Australian gunners have played in supporting the Australian Military Forces' campaigns has been well-documented. They have gallantly and whole-heartedly supported Australian, British, New Zealand and Indian armies in...
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