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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Military
Books about Tasmania's contribution to military campaigns since Federation.
The true story of murder on HMAS Australia. During WWII a sailor is killed, the suspects are part of a rumoured homosexual group on board the flagship. What followed was one of the most controversial events in the history of the Royal Australian Navy and triggered unprecedented legal and political events.
The revised and expanded second edition of Peter Henning's history of the 2/40th Battalion AIF — one of the most significant Tasmanian stories of the Second World War. The 2/40th was raised largely from Tasmanian volunteers in 1940 and sent to defend Timor in early 1942.
A social history of a few streets in the Launceston suburb of Newstead — and the World War One veterans who came home to live there under the now little-known War Service Homes Scheme, established after WWI to provide affordable housing to returned soldiers and their families.
![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]")
![Doomed Battalion – Mateship and Leadership in War and Captivity | Peter Henning | Revised 2nd Edition 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/Doomed%20Battalion-Apnzrt.png "Doomed Battalion – Mateship and Leadership in War and Captivity | Peter Henning | Revised 2nd Edition 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]")
![Home From War – Stories from the Newstead War Service Homes, Launceston Tasmania | Kim Simpson & Julieanne Richards | 2015 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/xctmpejVnko.png "Home From War – Stories from the Newstead War Service Homes, Launceston Tasmania | Kim Simpson & Julieanne Richards | 2015 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
