Illustrated biographies of doctors who served during the Second World War. The fourth volume in the series Australian Doctors at War, covers the Allied campaigns in North Africa and Syria until the Battle of Alamein, operations in Malaya until the Fall of Singapore, and the expeditionary forces sent by Australia to New Britain, New Ireland, ......
This compact edition of the bestselling Secrets of Churchills War Rooms takes you behind the glass that separate Churchill War Rooms from the public. It provides exclusive up-close photography of telling details in every room and tells the fascinating story of how the work carried out in these underground offices helped Churchill win the war.
On June 22nd, 1941 Hitler launched his invasion of Russia Operation Barbarossa. Eighty per cent of all German soldiers lost in World War II were killed on the Russian Front. Here were the greatest civilian losses the largest battle and the biggest tank battle Kursk the world has ever seen. This was war on a scale and ferocity never seen before ......
Silver was the codename for the only quintuple spy of the Second World War, spying for the Italians, Germans, Japanese, Soviets and the British. The Germans awarded him the Iron Cross, Germany s highest military decoration, and paid him 2.5 million in today s money. In reality Silver deceived the Nazis on behalf of the Soviets and the British. ......