Japan 1941 - Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta
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Category: MILITARY | Series: Vintage | Reading Level: near fine
A "Kirkus Reviews" Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, its leaders, in large part, understo ...Show more
The Real Great Escape : The Story of the First World Wars Most Daring Mass Breakout by Jacqueline Cook
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Category: MILITARY
Bigger than The Great Escape. The story of the first successful mass tunnel escape from a POW camp in First World War Germany. Situated in Lower Saxony, Germany, Holzminden swung open its barbed wire gates to welcome its first guests in September 1917. It was here that the transient population of office ...Show more
Private Bill in Love and War by Barrie Cassidy
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Category: MILITARY
Barrie Cassidy's dad Bill survived more than four years as a prisoner of war in World War II. He first saw conflict on Crete in May 1941, during the only large-scale parachute invasion in wartime history. Just four days later, Bill was wounded and eventually captured. Twice he tried to escape his intern ...Show more
Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44 by Anna Reid
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided instead to starve it out. Using newly available diarie ...Show more
Smithsonian Civil War in 3D: The Life and Death of the Soldier by Michael Stephenson
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Category: MILITARY
A collection of 35 stereoscopic photographs and sturdy metal viewer provide a remarkable and highly realistic 3D view of the daily life of soldiers during the American Civil War. Images will include building winter quarters, preparing food in the mess hall, bathing in a river in Virginia, waiting at the ...Show more
Zero Night: The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape by Mark Felton
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the hu ...Show more
Charles Bean's Gallipoli by Phillip Bradley (Editor); C. E. W. Bean
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Category: MILITARY
Charles Bean and Gallipoli are forever closely bound. Serving as the official Australian war correspondent from the landing to the evacuation, Charles Bean was able to dedicate his days and nights to witnessing and recording the events that would form the Anzac legend. In writing his diaries, Bean also ...Show more
Predator by Richard Whittle
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Category: MILITARY
The creation of the first weapon in history whose operators can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the globe was far more than clever engineering. As Richard Whittle shows in Predator, it was one of the most profound developments in the history of military and aerospace technology. Once consid ...Show more
Level Zero Heroes by Michael Golembesky
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Category: MILITARY
Level Zero Heroes follows the twenty-two members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their deployment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold known as Bala Morghab as they conduct special operations in an effort to liberate a valley from Taliban control. What started out as a routine op ...Show more
Monash: The Outsider Who Won A War by Roland Perry
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Category: MILITARY
'Compelling and wholly absorbing... among the most remarkable Australians of his time? Bob Carr, Australian General Sir John Monash changed the way wars were fought and won. When the British and German High Commands of the First World War failed to gain ascendancy after four years of unprecedented human ...Show more
1914: Fight the Good Fight: Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War by Allan Mallinson
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Category: MILITARY
'No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening', wrote Churchill. 'The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed.in fact the War was ...Show more
First Victory: The Hunt for the German Raider Emden by Mike Carlton
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Category: MILITARY
When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into Sydney Harbour in October 1913, a young nation was at peace. Under a year later Australia had gone to war in what was seen as a noble fight for king, country, and Empire. Thousands of young men joined up for the adventure of hav ...Show more