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    A Collection of Conversations with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski Volume 7

    by Richard Fidler, Sarah Kanowski ...
    Narrated by Richard Fidler, Sarah Kanowski, Richard E. Grant, Deborah Lawrie, Kate Legge, Ben Graetz, Gillian Bell, Diana Nguyen, Kelvin Kong0 ...
    Series Audiobook 7 - Conversations with Richard Fidler

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may, or may not, have heard about – someone who has seen and done amazing things. This compilation features a selection of seven of the best interviews from the program: Richard E Grant explores the influence of the late love of his life, his wife Joan Washington, their adventures and the final message she left him. Deborah Lawrie ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • New Guinea Engineer

    The Memoirs of Les Bell M.B.E.

    Edited by Les Bell, Gillian Heming Shadbolt ...
    World War II Royal Australian Air Force Flying Officer Les Bell, MBE recounts startling tales of settlement in Northern Queensland, the equatorial coconut and gold empires of German and Australian New Guinea, and the country's island archipelagos. In 1914 Les, aged 10, won his first Scout badge for collecting sugar bags for use in WW1 but he valued most his introduction to Morse Code. As a radio ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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  • The Hunting Submarine

    The Fighting Life of HMS Tally-Ho

    by Ian Trenowden ...
    HMS Tally Ho, captained by Commander L.W.A. Bennington was a T-class submarine which achieved spectacular success in the Second World War. Her name was chosen for her by Winston Churchill and it proved a very suitable one for a hunting submarine. In a single commission, lasting from 15th March 1943 to 26th February 1945, she operated in the Malacca Strait. Here, surrounded by enemy air bases and ... Read more

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  • On Paths of Ash

    by Robert Holman ...
    On Paths of Ash is an extraordinary Australian World War II story. Robert and Jack Holman were working-class brothers who found themselves in three of the most horrific experiences of the war. They were interned in Changi prisoner-of-war camp, from where they became prison labourers on the infamous Burma Railway. From there they went as slaves to the coalmines of Japan, close enough to Nagasaki to ... Read more

    $11.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Judy: A Dog in a Million

    From Runaway Puppy to the World's Most Heroic Dog

    by Damien Lewis ...
    'The dog of war whose sixth sense saved hundreds of British lives' Mail on Sunday'One of the most famous animals of the Second World War' Daily Express'The extraordinary story of the only animal POW held during the Second World War' Sunday TimesJudy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only official animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million. Whether she was dragging... ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Rescue at 2100 Hours

    by Tom Trumble ...
    February 1942. The Japanese invasion of Timor has begun and attempts to evacuate a group of 29 Australian airmen, charged with keeping an airfield operational until the last moment, are thwarted.Under the leadership of Bryan Rofe, a 24-year-old meteorological officer, the airmen make for remote jungle along the northwest coast. All attempts to rescue the group fail. Malaria-ravaged and starving, ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Captivity, Slavery and Survival as a Far East POW

    The Conjuror on the Kwai

    by Peter Fyans ...
    Captivity, Slavery and Survival as a Far East POW is the incredibly moving story of Gus Anckorn, a British soldier who was captured by the Japanese and held for over three and a half years. Before the war, Gus was a magician and throughout the war, entertained both fellow soldiers and Japanese guards with his tricks.Gus has a brilliant sense of humor and a 'tell it as it is' attitude which got him ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Solomons Seal

    by Hammond Innes ...
    'It was a weapon fashioned by somebody with experience and understanding of a deadly primitive craft, and the red paint on the tip could be nothing else but a simulation of the blood of the intended victim. The masked doll and the weapon, the two together…and the blood-red sky fading above me. I felt suddenly cold and appalled'.When Perenna Holland, descendant of a once powerful shipping family, ... Read more

    $7.89 CAD

  • Australia's Greatest Disasters: The tragedies that have defined the nation

    by John Miller ...
    Australia is a land of extremes where searing heat and devastating floods can both take their toll. It is also a land of vast distances, leaving it vulnerable to calamaties at sea, by rail and in the air. AUSTRALIAS GREATEST DISASTERS charts the events that have caused not only tragic loss of human life, but also economic and environmental devastation. From Cyclone Tracy and the Ash Wednesday ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Bulldog Track

    A grandson's story of an ordinary man's war and survival on the other Kokoda trail

    by Peter Phelps ...
    This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found work as a carpenter in the goldfields of the New Guinea Highlands. No one expected the Japanese ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Ambon

    The truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit

    by Roger Maynard ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it were captured. Over a thousand of these soldiers were Australian. By the end of the war, just one-third of them had survived and Ambon became a place of nightmares, one of the most notorious of all POW ... Read more

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  • No Better Friend

    One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII

    by Robert Weintraub ...
    **This New York Times–bestseller "combines a gritty war story with a warm dog story—readers who like both will think they have gone to heaven" ( Boston Globe).Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: an internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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