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Battle on 42nd Street: The Anzacs' Gruesome Last Stand in Crete by Peter Monteath
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust? The Battle of Crete was one of the most spectacular military campaigns of the twentieth century. For the first time in history, German forces carried out an invasion entirely from the air while poorly equipped Anzac and Bri ...Show more
Captured Lives: Australia's Wartime Internment Camps by Peter Monteath
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Captured Lives peers behind the barbed wire drawn around people deemed threats to Australia's security during the two world wars. Civilians from enemy nations, even if born in Australia, were subjects of suspicion and locked away in internment camps. Prisoners-of-war were shipped from the other side of ...Show more
Escape Artist: The incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck by Peter Monteath
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break - an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete. Astoundingly, this was only the first of many escapes. ...Show more
Interned by Peter Monteath
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
In August 1914 war broke out across Europe. Within months hundreds of men - 'enemy aliens' - were interned on Torrens Island, in the Port River estuary near Adelaide. Sailors taken off enemy ships, foreign nationals living in South Australia, and even some naturalised British subjects found themselves b ...Show more
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