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ALAMEIN : THE AUSTRALIAN STORY by MARK JOHNSTON AND PETER STANLEY
Category: Fiction
In North Africa in 1942, Australian forces provided the hinge on which the success of the Western Alliance sung. This book relates how the 9th Australian Division came to take part in the crucial battles around El Alamein in the summer of 1942. The authors have drawn on letters, diaries and other contem ...Show more
An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division by Mark Johnston
Category: Military
This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which sustained more casu ...Show more
Derrick VC: in His Own Words - Australia's Most Famous Fighting Soldier of World War II by Mark Johnston
Category: Military
Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC DCM was Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II. Derrick fought in five campaigns, won the highest medals for bravery, and died of wounds sustained while leading his men in the war's last stages. His career reached its climax on the jungle-clad heights of Sattelbe ...Show more
Proud 6th - Australian 6th Division by Mark Johnston
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Following Mark Johnston's acclaimed illustrated histories of the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions, this is his long-awaited history of the 6th Australian Division: the first such history ever published. The 6th was a household name during World War II. It was the first division raised in the Second Aust ...Show more
Stretcher-Bearers: Saving Australians from Gallipoli to Kokoda by Mark Johnston
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Australian Army History Series
Stretcher-bearers is a compelling account of the experience of Australian stretcher-bearers during the First and Second World Wars. Respected military historian, Mark Johnston traces the development of formal stretcher-bearing from its origin in the early nineteenth century under Napoleon to the Second ...Show more
That Magnificent 9th : An Illustrated History of the 9th Australian Division 1940-46 by Mark Johnston
Category: Military
This is a unique and powerful visual history of the men who fought in the 9th Division, the most famous Australian division of World War II. Many never before published photographs, some from veterans' private collections, illustrate dramatic and moving stories of Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea and Born ...Show more
The Australian Army in World War II by Mark Johnston
Category: Cap Link Damages SPECIALS | Series: Elite Ser.
The Australian infantry were amongst the Commonwealth's toughest and most widely travelled infantry, serving in campaigns including Syria, Greece, Cyprus, Crete, Libya Egypt, New Guinea, and the South West Pacific. Their fearsome fighting reputation was earned first against the Afrika Corps in the Libya ...Show more
Whispering Death : Australian Airmen in the Pacific War by Mark Johnston
Category: History
In Whispering Death, Mark Johnston, one of Australia's leading experts on World War II, explains vividly how more than 130,000 Australian airmen fought Japan from the Pacific War's first hours in 1941 to its last in 1945. They clashed over a vast area, from India to Noumea, Bass Strait to the Philippine ...Show more
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