On 1 January 1915, ramifications from the First World War, raging half a world away, were felt in Broken Hill, Australia, when in a guerrilla-style military operation, four citizens were killed and seven wounded.
When injured war hero Charlie finally returns to SAS service, he no longer needs Caesar's help as a care dog. Caesar can go back to being a super-sniffing explosive detection dog in the Australian Army.
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.
Remembering a Tasmanian Hero - the Life of Major Justin Hutchinson is the story of a young Tasmanian from Hamilton who was posted to the 9th and 3rd Light Horse Brigades, serving in Gallipoli, before being transferred to the 58th Battalion; he was killed at Fromelles in July 1916, aged only 21.
On Anzac Day 2010, a 96-year-old man in Hobart, a returned soldier from World War II, wrote a letter to the local paper thanking the people who were going to that morning's dawn service.
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.
Told from the heart by the Searle brothers' great-nephew, award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins using the letters and journals of the Searle brothers and remembrances of other family members, Crack Hardy is a compelling book that defines Australia and Australians during the making of our nation on the far-flung battlefields of the First World War.