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  • Cruel Conflict
    Kathryn Spurling
    The story of the men who served in HMAS PERTH in the early years of the second World WarCruel Conflict is the story of the men who served in HMAS Perth between 1939 and 1942. The courage and humour of those who were taken as prisoners of war, who endured the hardships of the camps and laboured on the Burma-Thailand railway is a story of triumph and tragedy. Kathryn Spurling has...
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    19,50 €

  • Abandoned and Sacrificed
    Kathryn Spurling
    Rabaul, New Guinea, is a tropical paradise, but between January and July 1942 it was a tragic and terrifying place. Hundreds of Australian defence force volunteers and civilians were massacred by the invading Japanese. Forced into the holds of the hellship Montevideo Maru, a further 1053 perished in Australia’s worst maritime disaster. On 22 June 1942, 845 military POWs and ove...
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    19,76 €

  • A Grave Too Far Away
    Kathryn Spurling
    A Grave Too Far Away illuminates the story of the men of (RAF)Royal Air Force Bomber Command Europe 1939-1945 who answered the call of their nation to defend the Mother Country in World War II.A Grave Too Far Away describes the highs and lows of their training and military service through letters, interviews and remembered stories. The demands of the bombing campaign on men and...
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    22,88 €

  • Fury to Hell
    Kathryn Spurling
    When members of the RAAF were shot out of the sky during World War II over the land of the enemy they were invariably subjectedu2028to cruelty by civilians while authorities turned away. Many were murdered. Those taken into custody received the harshest treatment of all POWs of Germany in WWII. Their interrogations were vicious as the opposing military attempted to extract info...
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    17,33 €

  • Bureaucracy, Bankers and Bastards
    Kathryn Spurling
    William ’Bill’ Mott came from generations of farmers/graziers who never wanted anything else but to own their own land. Hard work, family and the sense of community were pitted against the harsh reality of this ancient land and its climate of drought and flooding rain. Overseas wars had taken many of their own, but they had to believe it was for the greater good, for the safety...
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    20,18 €