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Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks by Craig Collie
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan. Th ...Show more
NAGASAKI : THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENT AND UNKNOWING by Craig Collie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second bombing in Nagasaki In a compelling narrative based on eyewitness accounts, contemporary di ...Show more
On Our Doorstep: When Australia Faced the Threat of Invasion by the Japanese by Craig Collie
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
In 1942 Australia faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese. This is what happened.
Reporter and The Warlords: An Australian at Large in China's Republican Revolution by Craig Collie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Set against the turbulent background of China in the first half of the 20th century, this reads like a romantic novel; but it's a true story. The reporter is the intrepid Australian journalist Will Donald, who arrived in Hong Kong in 1903 and by 1908 was Managing Editor of the China Mail. As a freelance ...Show more
The Path of Infinite Sorrow : The Japanese on the Kokoda Track by Craig Collie and Hajime Marutani
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track over the mountainous spine of New Guinea. Few prisoners were taken, most were shot. War conventions were routinely flouted, by both sides. Troops were reduced to a primal level, such were the inhuma ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
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