A newly researched true account of Billy Gadd, a young lad from Tasmania's West Coast mining town of Queenstown who managed to enlist in the AIF during World War I while under the legal age.
Those who served, their families and the impact of World War One volume I - the 12th and 52nd Battalions. Tasmanian ANZACS considers the unique contribution of Tasmanian soldiers in WWI and the pain endured by their grieving families.
Jessie Elizabeth Simons's first-hand account of her three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese during the Second World War — one of the Australian nurses captured in the fall of Singapore in February 1942 and held captive until the Japanese surrender in 1945. Simons was Tasmanian. Her account, published in 1954, is one of the earliest first-hand records by an Australian Army nurse of the prisoner of war experience in the Pacific — written while the events were relatively fresh and before the wave of later memoirs and histories shaped how this story was told.
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Books about Tasmania's contribution to military campaigns since Federation.
The story of Ordinary Seaman Edward "Teddy" Sheean — a Tasmanian from Latrobe who, on 1 December 1942, strapped himself to an anti-aircraft gun on the sinking HMAS Armidale and continued firing at Japanese aircraft to protect his shipmates in the water, even as the ship went down beneath him. He was 18 years old. He did not survive.
This book is a photographic tribute to the people of Hobart and Tasmania who came forward and volunteered to do their part in helping the fight in World War Two.
The story of the death of Micky Hallam, told by his mate Desmond Jackson - an indictment of the behaviour of the Japanese toward Prisoners of War in WWII. This is a USED book.
John Wadsley's history of two connected aspects of the Claremont area on the western shore of the Derwent River — the Claremont military camp and the Cadbury peninsula. The Claremont Camp was a significant military training facility in Tasmania — used for the training and mobilisation of Tasmanian soldiers across both World Wars and through much of the 20th century.
![While History Passed | Jessie Elizabeth Simons | 1954 [USED – HCDJ – Worn]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/while-history-passed-cwC33l.png "While History Passed | Jessie Elizabeth Simons | 1954 [USED – HCDJ – Worn]")
![Honour Denied – Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero | Dr Tom Lewis | 2016 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/xctmpuQkvie.png "Honour Denied – Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero | Dr Tom Lewis | 2016 [USED – SC]")
![A Town of Tents – A History of the Claremont Camp and the Cadbury Peninsula | John Wadsley | 2022 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/a-town-of-tents-WgBGQf.png "A Town of Tents – A History of the Claremont Camp and the Cadbury Peninsula | John Wadsley | 2022 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Very Good]")
