Product Description: "What I saw was apparently three white parachutes in a triangular fashion about 60 degrees elevation. Suddenly there was a brilliant flash like a photographer's magnesium flash. Instinctively, I dropped to the ground beside a kerbing at the side of the alleyway...read more

Product Description: Book by Slessor, Kenneth

Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to their last operation of the war in Europe--the occupation of Germany. Alan Moorehead's original intention was to chronicle the collapse of German Europe sociologically and politically, psychologically and even emotionally. He was after atmosphere more than fact, especially since ECLIPSE was written too soon after the fact for responsible history. In the final tally, ECLIPSE is a commentary. Starting with the collapse in Italy, Moorehead advances through France, the Rhine, finally into the heart of Germany where the last Nazis were finally stopped. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Book by Conners, Libby, Finch, Lynette, Saunders, Kay, Taylor, Helen

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Product Description: This book tells - through the diaries and memoirs of others who survived - the story of the men of 'A' Force who labored as WWII prisoners of the Japanese on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway from April 1942 until late 1943.

Product Description: Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people served their country during World War II and this book focuses on the experiences of six of those soldiers.

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One of Australia's well-known chroniclers of the Second World War tells the devastating story of war from the insider's perspective. Based largely on Osmar White's own war diary and the articles he wrote as a war correspondent, this deeply personal account stands out among the vast literature on World War II. Selected among the best 100 articles in Australian journalism of the twentieth century, White's eloquent record of the climactic events in the final days of the Third Reich remains as fresh and timely as ever. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 265 pages of excellent text, with many great photos. First Edition.