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Beneath Hill 60 by Will Davies
Category: Australian History
On 7 June 1917, 19 massive mines shattered the Messines ridge near Ypres. Ten thousand German soldiers died and the largest man-made explosion in history up until that time smashed open the German frontline. Two of these mines, at Hill 60 and the Caterpillar, were fired my men of the 1st Australian Tunn ...Show more
Beneath Hill 60 - The Australian Miners' Secret Warfare Beneath the Trenches of the Western Front by Will Davies; Francis Greenslade (Read by)
Category: Military
We all remember images from WWI of massive artillery barrages and soldiers crossing shattered landscapes towards certain slaughter. Beneath these killing fields of the Western Front, another war was taking place, a deadly game 30 meters down, played between thousands of troops. These were not infantrym ...Show more
Beneath Hill 60: The Australian Miners' Secret Warfare Beneath the Trenches of the Western Front by Will Davies
Category: Military
We all remember images from WWI of massive artillery barrages and soldiers crossing shattered landscapes towards certain slaughter. Beneath these killing fields of the Western Front, another war was taking place, a deadly game 30 meters down, played between thousands of troops. These were not infantryme ...Show more
In the Footsteps of Private Lynch by Will Davies
Category: Military
Retrace Australia's role in the First World War from the trenches of Somme Mud to the wider war on the Western Front. Imagine this. You are a country boy and just eighteen. The war has been raging for two years and because of your age, you have not been eligible for enlistment. Your mates, older by a fe ...Show more
Secret and Special by Will Davies
Category: Audio
Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE) and called the Inter-allied Services Department. The unit was tasked with the role to 'obtain and report information of the enemy ... weaken ...Show more
Secret and Special: The untold story of Z Special Unit in the Second World War by Will Davies
Category: Australian History
Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE) and called the Inter-allied Services Department. The unit was tasked with the role to "obtain and report information of the enemy ... weaken ...Show more
Somme Mud : An Australian Teenager in the First World War by Will Davies; Edward P. Lynch
Category: Children's Educational
"Beautifully presented young readers edition of the bestselling memoir of a young soldier on the First World War s Western Front.'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of u ...Show more
TALES FROM A SUITCASE THE AFGHAN EXPERIE by DAVIES WILL DAL BOSCO ANDREA
Category: Biography Memoir
The Boy Colonel by Will Davies
Category: Australian History
Known as The Boy Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks, was the youngest battalion commander in the AIF and highly regarded not only as a future military commander, but as a business and community leader. It was a blustery day on the 25th January 1920 at Palm Beach to the north of Sydney and the sur ...Show more
The Forgotten the Chinese Labour Corps and the Chinese Anzacs by WILL. DAVIES
Category: History
The Forgotten explores an often-overlooked part of Australia’s rich and diverse history – the service and sacrifice of the Chinese Labour Corps who worked under the British and French on the Western Front during the First World War. It puts the story of the Chinese Labour Corps into the broader history ...Show more