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Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
$34.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
'It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river of their memories, sensing, on occasion, a kind of urg ...Show more
Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
$24.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
"Every veteran has a story. Sometimes these stories become part of family folklore. Sometimes they are too terrible to speak of. In April 1943 Cyril Burcher bombed a German U-boat, killing its entire crew. Thirty years later, a letter arrived for him out of the blue from the daughter of the U-boat capta ...Show more
Southern Surveyor: Stories from Onboard Australia's Ocean Research Vessel by Michael Veitch
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australia
This engaging book tells the stories of the men and women who worked onboard CSIRO's research vessel - the Southern Surveyor. For ten years (2003-2013) this magnificent ship sailed over 190 voyages across the seas and oceans around Australia and contributed a wealth of knowledge to marine science. From ...Show more
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were agai ...Show more
Turning Point: The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat in World War II by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Aust soldiers in the Milne Campaign of 1942
Told for the first time, this is the epic story of the Milne Bay campaign of 1942 - which saw Japanese land forces suffer their first defeat of the war - and has properly been called the RAAF's forgotten finest hour. September 1942 marked the high-point of Axis conquest in World War II. In the Pacific, ...Show more