Military

The enemy must not get the Messines Ridge at any price … So read the orders to German troops defending the vital high ground south of Ypres. On 7 June 1917, the British Second Army launched its attack with an opening like no other. In the largest secret operation of WWI, British and Commonwealth mining companies placed over a million pounds of explosive beneath the German front-line positions in 19 giant mines which erupted like a volcano. This was just the beginning. This is a USED book.

Craig Deayton's history of the 47th Battalion AIF — raised largely from Queensland and Tasmania, fought at Pozieres, Bullecourt and Messines, and won a Victoria Cross at Dernancourt in 1918. Hardcover with dustjacket, used.

Beyond the Seas Volume 2 commemorates King Island's Anzacs 1914-1918 by telling the history of the island's diggers and King Island's role in World War One.

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.