The Waler - Australia's Great War Horse DVD
Over 130;000 Australian horses served in the 1914- 1918 war;...
The Crying Years - Australia's Great War
The Great War continues to fascinate us all. In this origina...
The Waler - Australia's Great War Horse
When the first convoys of the ANZAC Expeditionary Forces sai...
To Win the Battle: The 1st Australian Division in the G...
To Win the Battle: The 1st Australian Division in the Great ...
Making History: The Great War - The Red Army DLC Steam ...
The first expansion to the acclaimed WWI strategy game Makin...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Cente...
The first book in a new series that will explore Australia...
WWI - The Great War Collector's Edition
The definitive War collection from the History Channel. E...
Australia's Great War - 1918
Zero Night - The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 Zero Night 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first Great Escape but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious Warburg ...
Of Fortunes and War - Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
The list of female war reporters is long and distinguished. But the great-grandmother of them all was Clare Hollingworth Mail on Sunday Unputdownable Alexander McCall Smith One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met Chris Patten She was a pioneer Kate Adie OBEA NEW EDITION WITH EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE CLARE HOLLINGWORTH FAMILY ARCHIVELegendary journalist Clare...
Great ANZAC Stories - The Men and Women Who Created the Digger Legend
These stories show the overwhelming blood and honour, heroism and horror that was the Australian experience on our cruellest shores. Peter FitzSimons Accessible, short, often fresh tales capture the spirit and sentiment of Anzac. Roland Perry Over the years, the experiences of soldiers at war become the stuff of legend: tales of great bravery, battlefield wins, and also the tragic ...
Broken Nation - Australians in the Great War
Winner of the 2014 Prime Ministers Literary Award for Australian History.If you read only one book about Australias experience of World War I . make it Broken Nation, an account that joins the history of the war to the home front, and that details the barbarism of the battlefields as well as the desolation, despair, and bitter divisions that devastated the communities left behind. Maril...
The Great World
Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other peoples battles from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy yea...
One Boy's War
Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914 recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War. Bursting with enthusiasm, he runs away to join up, but soon finds himself a long way from home in a frontline trench where reality and the rats begin to bite. Told through Sydneys optimistic letters home and his journal, this is his honest portrayal o...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The first book in a new series that will explore Australias role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air warfares newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britains flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
ANZAC Sons - The Story of Five Brothers in the War to End All Wars
Well dear Jim it breaks my heart to write thisletter. Our dear [brother] was killed yesterdaymorning at 5.30. The bullet killed him instantlyand he never spoke a word. I had just left himand gone down the trench to see the other ladswhen I was called back. Oh Jim it is awful
OhI do hope he is the last
It is April 27, 1918, Jims brother writes from the battlefields ofFrance. Of five brothers ...
A Ship of War - Charles Hayden Book 3
A Ship of War is a stunning new maritime adventure from Top Ten bestselling author Sean Thomas Russell, following the great success of A Battle Won and Under Enemy Colours. For fans of Bernard Cornwell and Patrick OBrian, A Ship of War is the third instalment in the electrifying historical series of Charles Hayden and the Themis. Hayden kept his eye fixed upon the chasing ship
The screech of...
War and Peace
War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleons war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoys view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoys...
The Romanovs - 1613-1918
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the worlds surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the worlds greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiores gripping ch...
Fighting the Kaiserreich - Australia's epic within the Great War
This book portrays a modern epic of an army that sailed across the world to fight a war. Its struggle with the Kaiserreich (German empire) became the most formidable campaign Australian troops have ever fought. By the time Monashs soldiers broke through the Hindenburg Line, their achievement and its cost were staggering. This epic was created by normal Australians, and is understandable to no...
Australia's Great War - 1914
Louis Jullian and his older brother Thomas are on holiday in Sarajevo, enjoying the privileges of life in a diplomats family. But the peace is shattered as a bomb explodes and the heir to the Austrian Empire is assassinated in front of their eyes. As Europe descends into war, Louis convinces his parents to let him go to the front as a war correspondent. Sent to northern France, Louis witnesse...
Courage in the Skies - The Untold Story of Qantas, it's Brave Men and Women and Their Extraordinary Role in World War II...
Between 1942 and 1943, Qantas lost eight aircraft during its involvement in Australias war against the Japanese. Over sixty passengers and crew died as a result. Yet Qantas exemplary contribution to Australias war effort and the courage of its people in those difficult times has been forgotten. Courage in the Skies is the remarkable story of Qantas at war and the truly heroic deeds of its c...
Kitty's War
Kittys War is based upon the previously unpublished diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same part of regional Victoria, except many decades apart. The idea of this young nurse setting out in July 1915 on a journey that would take her across the world and into the First World War took hold of Janet Butler and inspired her to r...
Dorothy Brooke and the Fight to Save Cairo's Lost War Horses
In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke (1883-1955) followed her new husband to Cairo, Egypt, where she discovered thousands of malnourished and suffering former British war horses leading lives of backbreaking toil and misery. Brought to the Middle East by British forces during the Great War, these ex-cavalry horses had been left behind at the wars end, abandoned like used equipment t...
The Unseen Anzac - How An Enigmatic Explorer Created Australia'sWorld War I Photographs
The previously untold story of an extraordinary man and a great war photographer. Cameras were banned at the Western Front when the Anzacs arrived in 1916, prompting correspondent Charles Bean to argue continually for Australia to have a dedicated photographer. He was eventually assigned an enigmatic polar explorer??George Hubert Wilkins. Within weeks of arriving at the front, Wilkins ...
Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914
The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th centurys first terrible act of self-immolation what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how th...
A Chaplain at Gallipoli - The Great War Diaries of Kenneth Best
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working with the troops under fire. Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrians the first Territor...
A Prayer for Gallipoli - The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working with the troops under fire. Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrians the first Territ...
The Great Swindle - Au revoir la-haut (English edition)
Now a major French film Au revoir la-haut Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irene and Camille. October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri dAulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once mor...