Remembrance Day

Remembrance and Stories of War

Updated October 31, 2023
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The Pacific
Watt, Peter
Two families thrown together by War.When war correspondent Ilsa Stahl's plane goes down in a terrible storm over Papuan waters and she is taken prisoner by the Japanese, Ilsa prepares for the worst.Her father, Jack Kelly, will stop at nothing to save her - even if it means risking the life of his...
Walking with the Anzacs : an updated guide to Australian battlefields of the Western Front
McLachlan, Mat
Now fully revised for 2023, this is the essential and comprehensive guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front for anyone who wants to walk in the footsteps of the Anzacs. From one of Australia's leading battlefield historians, Mat McLachlan, Walking with the Anzacs...
Wise gals : the spies who built the CIA and changed the future of espionage
Holt, Nathalia
The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA - women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace).
Life so full of promise : further biographies of Australia's lost generation
McMullin, Ross
Acclaimed historian and biographer Ross McMullin has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in this sequel to Farewell, Dear People, the winner of multiple awards including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Life So Full of Promise, his second multi...
Broken nation : Australians in the Great War
Beaumont, Joan
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac legend. But it was also a war fought by the families at home. Their resilience in the face of hardship, their stoic...
The book spy
Hlad, Alan
Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Marie Benedict, and Pam Jenoff and inspired by true stories of the heroic librarian spies of WWII, the new book from the internationally bestselling author of Churchill's Secret Messenger transports readers from the New York Public Library to Portugal's city...
Anzac girls : the extraordinary story of our World War I nurses
Rees, Peter
The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War. Now a major six-part television series.
Ambulance girls at war
Burrows, Deborah
Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born and now lives in the glittering world of professional dancing. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she volunteers as an ambulance driver, finding joy both in helping the wounded during...
Night in Passchendaele
Bennett, Scott
One bloody night. One lone survivor. One chance of redemption. France, 1919. One year after the guns fell silent across the Western Front, Lieutenant Wilfred Rhodes receives his final classified mission before he can return to Australia. He must end the command of Captain Charles Kingsley, the...
Barbed wire and roses
Yeldham, Peter
The First World War, everyone said in 1914, would be over by Christmas, and Stephen Conway rushes to enlist. Leaving behind a new wife and a baby on the way, he soon finds himself in the trenches of Gallipoli. Four horrific years later, Stephen is the only survivor of his platoon. Shell-shocked and...
Pact with the devil
Steel, Jeff
Max had enjoyed the camaraderie in the Hitler Youth organisation. His week at the Berlin Olympics was a life-time highlight. He saw the Führer and fell in love with Inge. He loved the Third Reich.  Russia was where it started going wrong. He knew primal fear as the ruthless Red...
Snapshots from home
Wasley, Sasha
The factory : the official history of the Australian Signals Directorate. Volume 1, 1947 to 1972 : incorporating the history of Australian signals intelligence from 1901-1947
Fahey, John
The story of the first 25 years of Australia's national signals intelligence organisation, told for the first time.

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