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A Very Different War: RAAF Operations in the Korean War (#8 Australian Air Campaigns) by Owen Zupp
Category: Military | Series: Australian Air Campaign Ser.
The Korean War lies between the enormity of the Second World War and the controversy of Vietnam. Although it often slips through the cracks of history, it represented a global shift as two opposing ideologies clashed and the Cold War heated up. The fledgling United Nations was called to act, and Austral ...Show more
Armada 1588 - The Spanish Assault on England by John Barratt
Category: History | Series: Campaign Chronicles Ser.
The defeat of the Spanish Armada is one of the turning points in English history, and it was perhaps the defining episode in the long reigns of Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain. The running battle along the Channel between the nimble English ships and the lumbering Spanish galleons has achi ...Show more
Armageddon and OKRA - Australia's Air Operations in the Middle East a Century Apart by Lewis Frederickson
Category: Military | Series: Australian Air Campaign Ser.
The dispatch of an Ottoman Army by Australian-led Imperial air power in the Wadi Fara on 21 September 1918 occurred just five years after the advent of military aviation in Australia. In 1914, the fledgling Australian air service operated the flimsy Bristol Boxkite; four years later it was flying the fa ...Show more
Battle of Britain 1940: The Luftwaffe's 'Eagle Attack' by Dildy Doug
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
The Battle of Britain was one of the most iconic campaigns of World War II, where the "Few" of the Royal Air Force took on the might of the German Luftwaffe. At stake was not just air superiority over the British Isles--a German victory would enable Hitler's plan to invade and conquer the last Allied co ...Show more
Battle of Lys - April 1918 by Colin Mattey
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
In the wave of devastating German offensives launched in the spring of 1918, it is Operation Michael that has captured most attention, characterised by astonishing advances and their potentially shattering impact on the British Expeditionary Force's (BEF) Third and Fifth armies. While this offensive eve ...Show more
Battle of Mont St Quentin Peronne 1918 by Michele Bomford
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 explores the relationship between myth and history and the significance of the Anzac legend. It analyses the forces that drove the diggers forward even when they had reached the limits of their endurance. The Battle of Mont St Quentin-P?ronne represents ...Show more
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-41 - RAF Coastal Command's Years of Struggle Against the U-Boats by Mark Lardas
Category: No Category | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
At the start of World War II, few thought the U-boat would be as devastating as it proved to be. But convoys and sonar-equipped escorts proved inadequate to defend the Allies' merchantmen, and the RAF's only offensive weapon was the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft. For RAF Coastal Command, the fir ...Show more
Battle over the Atlantic: RAAF in Coastal Command 1939-45 (#3 Australian Air Campaigns) by John Quaife
Category: Military | Series: Australian Air Campaign Series
At the outbreak of World War II, somewhat by accident -- and just as the first shots of the war were fired -- young Australian airmen from the Royal Australian Air Force were engaged in operations that would become known collectively as the Battle of the Atlantic. Arguably lesser-known than air campaign ...Show more
Battles Before : Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership after the Vietnam War by David Connery
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Much of Australia's military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? "The Battles Before" examines the role of senior leaders in preparing an army for war -- fighting bureaucratic bat ...Show more
Battles of Bullecourt 1917 by DAVID COOMBES
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
In April-May 1917 the sleepy hamlet of Bullecourt in northern France became the focus of two battles involving Australian and British troops. Given the unique place in this nation's military history that both battles occupy, surprisingly little has been written on the AIF's achievements at Bullecourt. T ...Show more
"Big Week" 1944: Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe by Douglas C. Dildy
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one foresaw the devastation that German radar-directed inter ...Show more
Bosworth 1485 - The Downfall of Richard III by Christopher Gravett; Graham Turner (Illustrator)
Category: History | Series: Campaign Ser.
The battle of Bosworth was the culmination of the War of the Roses, the dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster that dominated England in the second half of the 15th century. Edward IV had secured the throne for the house of York, but his early death in 1483, followed by the death of ...Show more