Hell of a Time

Hell of a Time
Author: Philip Owen Ayton
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1925773426

One of the last undiscovered personal accounts of an Australian soldier fighting to survive WWI

In Great Spirits

In Great Spirits
Author: Archie Barwick
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1743099819

An Aussie soldier's diary of the first World War - by turns compelling, illuminating, funny, touching and sad - and absolutely unputdownable. Archie Albert Barwick was an enthusiastic young 24 year old when he joined the First AIF in late August 1914 - his service number was 914. When he learnt that he'd been accepted into the army, he was so happy he turned two somersaults for pure joy. this is his diary, that he kept throughout the war - from Cairo to Gallipoli, from Marseilles through to the terrible winter of 1916 in the Somme, from Ypres to Pozieres. He was wounded three times and sent back to the fighting, before finally travelling back home in December 1918.this diary is simply a treasure - vivid, alive, compelling. His description of the war is by turns down-to-earth, horrifying, illuminating, funny, touching and terribly sad. Yet his voice and personality shine through. In his diary, Archie describes someone as being 'merry & bright & never downhearted' and this could be a description of Archie himself. Readable, spirited and humming with life, In Great Spirits is a unique and incredibly moving tribute to the Australian character and the ANZAC spirit.

Stone Cold

Stone Cold
Author: Andrew Faulkner
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2016-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 174237378X

'If I'd have been a Vietcong you'd be dead.' - Len Opie 'Len was a soldier above soldiers.' - Keith Payne VC Through three wars across 30 years, Len Opie carved a reputation as one of the country's greatest infantrymen. A cold-eyed killer who drank nothing stronger than weak tea, he fought with his bare hands, a sharpened shovel and piano wire. He was a larrikin who went by the book, unless the book was wrong. He set his own bar high and expected others to do the same. Stone Cold is the extraordinary story of one of Australia's most fearless fighters. It takes us into the jungles of New Guinea and Borneo and some of the fiercest battles of World War II. It goes to the cold heart of Korea, where Len emerged from the ranks to excel in the epic Battle of Kapyong and play a key role at the Battle of Maryang San. And it drops us into the centre of the American counterinsurgency war in Vietnam with Len's involvement in the CIA's shadowy black ops program, Phoenix. Action-packed and surprising, Stone Cold gives rich life to a warrior soldier and one of Australia's greatest diggers.

Anzac Girl: The War Diaries of Alice Ross-King

Anzac Girl: The War Diaries of Alice Ross-King
Author: Kate Simpson
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1760873543

It was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all she had ever wanted to do. But Alice couldn't have imagined what she would see. She served four long years and was brave, humble and endlessly compassionate. Using extracts from Alice's actual diaries kept in the Australian War Memorial, this true story captures the danger, the heartache and the history of the young nurse who would one day become the most decorated woman in Australia.

Our Forgotten Volunteers

Our Forgotten Volunteers
Author: Bojan Pajic
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 2019-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1925801446

Australian and New Zealand volunteers were already in Serbia, treating wounded Serbian soldiers and fighting a typhus epidemic, before the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli in 1915. The Gallipoli Campaign sealed Serbia’s fate, however, as Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria moved to secure a land supply corridor to Turkey through Serbia. Australians and New Zealanders accompanied the Serbian Army on a deadly retreat over wintry mountains to the Adriatic coast. When the fighting shifted to the Salonika or ‘Macedonian’ Front, many served there with the British Army, the Royal Flying Corps, two AIF units and six Royal Australian Navy destroyers in the Adriatic and Aegean Seas. Some died in action, others from disease. Several hundred doctors, nurses and orderlies treated the wounded and sick in an Australian-led volunteer hospital and in British and New Zealand Army hospitals. The author Miles Franklin was a medical orderly supporting the Serbian Army; her little-known memoir is quoted extensively in this book. Fifteen hundred Australians and New Zealanders served on this little known yet crucial battlefront. Now for the first time we have an engaging and comprehensive account of what they experienced and achieved in the Great War.

Contact - Wait Out

Contact - Wait Out
Author: Bruce Ravenscroft
Publisher:
Total Pages: 197
Release: 1997
Genre: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN: 9780646315386

The Western Front Diaries

The Western Front Diaries
Author: Jonathan King
Publisher: Scribe Us
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Soldiers
ISBN: 9781925106695

"A Special 100th-anniversary edition"--Title-page. "Revised edition"--Verso.

Truscott

Truscott
Author: John Beasy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 303
Release: 1995-01
Genre: Air bases
ISBN: 9780646041049

A full account of the secret Western Australian air base and the raids that left from there to attack Japanese locations in Dutch East Indies and elsewhere. Written in a diary form, the book traces the building of the base, the flying operations and what is left to see today.