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“craig collie”

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  • Where the Flaming Hell Are We?

    The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete

    by Craig Collie ...
    The ANZ bestselling story of the fight for Greece and Crete - through the eyes of the soldiers.We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops are rushed to Greece in a desperate attempt to stop the Wehrmacht overrunning the country. Most of them overseas for ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Code Breakers

    Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks

    by Craig Collie ...
    The extraordinary untold story of the brilliant men who cracked the Japanese codes from Australia during World War II.At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or ... Read more

    $13.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Our Doorstep

    When Australia faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese

    by Craig Collie ...
    I can't understand the mentality of the Australian people. One day they are in a panic about the war and the next they want more race meetings.' - John CurtinBy March 1942, the Japanese had steamrolled through Malaya, laid siege to Singapore, and bombed Darwin with the same ferocity they had dealt Pearl Harbor. Nothing could stop them. Their next step was inevitable, surely: the invasion and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Nagasaki

    The massacre of the innocent and unknowing

    by Craig Collie ...
    The war was coming to an end at last. The people of Nagasaki knew this as they desperately tried to survive each day's shortages of food and warmth - ordinary people going about their lives as normally as they could manage. People like Nagai, the doctor who'd just been told he had leukemia; Father Tamaya, the obliging Catholic priest, who'd agreed to postpone a return to his rural parish; and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reporter and the Warlords

    An Australian at large in China's republican revolution

    by Craig Collie ...
    Set against a background of the birth of modern China, this is the true story of Australian journalist, Bill Donald, and his role in those turbulent events in the first half of the 20th century.With no agenda other than an unshakeable belief in China's potential, Donald was drawn into the republican revolution as it swept aside the last imperial dynasty, becoming advisor to a succession of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Path of Infinite Sorrow

    by Craig Collie and Hajime Marutani ...
    The story of the bloody Kokoda campaign, told for the first time through the personal experiences of the Japanese soldiers. 'We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back.' Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track over the mountainous spine of New Guinea. Few prisoners were taken, most were ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Chindit

    Special Force, Burma 1944

    by Stewart Cochrane ...
    The untold story of the P.B.I! The "POOR BLOODY INFANTRY"In the whole of W.W.II, never was so much asked from allied soldiers, than was asked of "The Chindits" six months of grueling combat behind the Japanese lines. This is a first hand account of the second Chindit expedition, "Operation Thursday". These were the long-range penetration combat units that fought the Imperial Japanese forces where ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Kokoda (TV TIE IN)

    by Paul Ham ...
    The inspiration for a major two-part ABC documentary, KOKODA is set to win over a whole new audience'Never in my life ... had I seen soldiers who looked so shocked and so tired and so utterly weary as those men' Brigadier John Rogers, Australia's Director of Military Intelligence, 1942Now a major two-part ABC documentary series produced with Screen Australia's Making History, Paul Ham's KOKODA is ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Battleground Atlantic

    How the Sinking of a Single Japanese Submarine Assured the Outcome of WW II

    by Richard N. Billings ...
    The true story of a German-Japanese scheme to turn much of America into a radioactive wasteland.In the early hours of June 24, 1944, U.S. Navy warplanes patrolling the Atlantic attacked a Japanese submarine known as the I-52. But this was more than the sinking of one more enemy warship. It was an event of enormous strategic importance. For the I-52’s mission was to return to Japan with the lethal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 76 Hours: The Invasion Of Tarawa

    by Eric Hammel and John E. Lane ...
    On the morning of November 20, 1943, the U.S. 2d Marine Division undertook the first modern amphibious assault against a well-defended beachhead. The objective was tiny Betio Island in Tarawa Atoll. The result was a tragedy and near defeat turned around into an epic of victory and indomitable human spirit. Although the admirals commanding the Tarawa invasion fleet had assured the Marines that ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Korean War

    by Cameron Forbes ...
    The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world's most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions and nuclear warheads.Cameron Forbes, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • 36 Days

    by Hugh Dolan ...
    When Australian troops stormed ashore in the pre-dawn darkness of April 25th 1915, it was the culmination of one of the most complex and daunting operations in the history of warfare - the seaborne assault of a heavily fortified shore, defended by a well-prepared and forewarned enemy.The risks were enormous, and the death toll on the beach at Anzac Cove could have been murderous - as it was with ... Read more

    $9.89 USD