Books on war

[Marc Montgomery]

Ya gotta love the Hollywood film "The Great Escape"... never let the facts get in the way of a good story sez the Hollywood crowd.
For the true story
The Great Escape- A Canadian Story by Ted Barris

[Ryan]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/BRITISH-A...item1e888e8a14

An older excellent book on allied tanks.
Has a good coverage to the rear of the book on Australian Sentinels and carriers as well as Canadian tanks.

No connection.

[hrpearce]

Just finished Gallipoli Air War, I found it a very interesting insight into early aviation.

[hrpearce]

Vicki gave me a book for my birthday,

Michael Veitch
The epic battle in the skies
above Port Moresby
44
days
75 squadron
and the fight for Australia.

Another chapter we were not taught in history, what an awful ordeal they endured.

[Mike Cecil]

Just finished reading the above, a detailed account of the attacks on the Norsk Hydro factory at Vemork, Norway, producing heavy water for atomic developments in Germany. You may remember the 1965 Heroes of Telemark movie about the same subject, and there was a more recent TV series about the subject, too.

Highly recommended: Neal Bascombe has done a fantastic job of drawing all the threads together, and writing a gripping account of all the operations against the plant and its product. I'd read an earlier work of his (Hunting Eichmann) so had a good idea that this new book would be well researched and written, and I was not disappointed.

ISBN 9780544368057.

Mike

[motto (RIP)]

This book deals with the little known story of British aircraft carrier operations against the Japanese in the later part of the war in the Pacific.
Based in Sydney, the British Pacific Fleet comprised of up to five carriers and over 100 support vessels with around 250 aircraft carrying out combat operations.
One interesting fact touched upon is that within a couple of weeks of the Japanese surrender the US cancelled Lend/Lease agreements which resulted in around 1000 aircraft being dumped at sea, mainly Corsairs and Avengers. Some, maybe even many of these were off the Australian east coast.

The Kamikaze Hunters
Will Iredale
Macmillan
ISBN 978-0-230-76819-2 HB
ISBN 978=1-4472-8471-0 TBP

David

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by motto

This book deals with the little known story of British aircraft carrier operations against the Japanese in the later part of the war in the ....

The Kamikaze Hunters
Will Iredale
Macmillan
ISBN 978-0-230-76819-2 HB
ISBN 978=1-4472-8471-0 TBP

David

Hi David

Good read, read it a couple of months ago, actually found it at my local library here in the States. Unusual in that it actually tells the story of other than the US Navy having a role in the War in the Pacific, very pleased that our library for adding it to their collection.

Lots of interesting little tidbits, like the training of Commonwealth pilots in the US and the advantage they got from better weather meaning more flying hours.

Cheers Phil

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Just finished reading the above, a detailed account of the attacks on the Norsk Hydro factory at Vemork, Norway, producing heavy water for atomic developments in Germany. You may remember the 1965 Heroes of Telemark movie about the same subject, and there was a more recent TV series about the subject, too.

Highly recommended: Neal Bascombe has done a fantastic job of drawing all the threads together, and writing a gripping account of all the operations against the plant and its product. I'd read an earlier work of his (Hunting Eichmann) so had a good idea that this new book would be well researched and written, and I was not disappointed.

ISBN 9780544368057.

Mike

Following the same theme. ''Skis against the Atom' a paperback EDITION I HAD YEARS AGO.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Skis-.../9780942323078

[hrpearce]

Found these on buy swap and sell in Canberra, Greg picked them up for me. Can't wait to be able to visit and pick them up.