Ian Denys Peek. A memoir of life and death on the Burma - Thailand Railway. Peek spent three years on the railway, refusing to die where over 20,000 people met their death. 

Australian soldiers and Military police. A detailed history, complimented by vivid interviews outlines this complex and sometimes bitter aspect of military history

Hardcover. A follow-on book from Convoys Up the Track. Tells how thousands came into contact with the Outback as part of World War II communication lines along the Stuart Hwy & Barkly Hwy. Over 300 historic photos

The story of Australian Army Aviation's reconnaissance 161 flight in South Vietnam

A record of the changes to rural Australia because of World War I.

Bob Wurth. An account of a deadly dance with appeasement between Australia and Japan in the lead up to Pearl Harbor.

Fasten your fleecy-lined flying suit, and pull on your leather helmet, goggles, and gloves. It is 1919, the First World War is over, and the Commonwealth Govenment has put up £10,000 prize money for the first Australian air crew to fly from London to Port Darwin. Up until now, the longest flight anywhere in the world has been 2,000 miles, yet this one will be 11,000 miles, almost halfway round the planet - with very few landing strips on the way. Sixteen outstanding young Australian aviators - decorated ex-servicement - have the opportunity to participate in the unique air race. Kingsford Smith, Bert Hinkler, Hudson Fysh, Keith and Ross Smith and the indefatigable Ray Parer - all to become legendary for their exploits - are involved. By today's standards their aircraft would be considered almost unbelievably primitive. Yet at the time, they were at the cutting edge of the new science of aeronautics. Still, only six flyers will reach Australia by aeroplane. Others will never see their country again.

The true story of Jim Martin, the youngest Anzac. He was just fourteen years old.

Four months after leaving home he would be numbered among the dead, just one of so many soldier boys who travelled half way around the world for the chance of adventure.

It is also the story of Jim's mother Amelia Martin who had to let him go, of his family who lost a son, a brother, an uncle and a friend.

E.P.F Lynch

The experiences of an Australian infantryman in France 1916-19. Private Edward Lynch enlisted in the army at eighteen. On his return from Fance in 1919 he wrote Somme Mud in pencil in 20 school exercise books. This is a rare find, capturing the horror and magnitude of the First World War, written from the perspective of the ordinary soldier rather than the officers.

We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it, and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can't escape it, not even by dying.

‘The Digger’ is a key piece of the complex jigsaw puzzle that makes up ‘The Australian’. But who is the Digger exactly and what elements have gone into forging this spirit? In over a century of conflicts our diggers have had an impact far in excess of their numbers, yet their essential characteristics have remained the same.