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Australia's Secret Army by Michael Veitch
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From acclaimed author Michael Veitch comes this compelling, vivid history of the secret army of civilians who worked with the Australian Defence Force during World War II as 'Coast Watchers', observing Japanese movements along the coastlines and in the jungles of the South Pacific. A Coastwatcher's work ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better lif ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.
Hell Ship Audio MP3 by Michael Veitch (Read by)
$12.99 AUD
$49.95 (73% off)
Category: Audio
In the summer of 1852 a ghost ship rounded the heads of Port Phillip Bay. It was the clipper Ticonderoga, three months out from Liverpool, carrying emigrants from the Highlands of Scotland to a new life in Australia. When she'd set out, almost 800 of them were crowded into her 170 foot hull. The first d ...Show more
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were agai ...Show more
The Forgotten Islands: One Man's Voyage into a Truly Gothic Australia by Michael Veitch
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Michael Veitch has long been fascinated by the islands of Bass Strait, between mainland Australia and Tasmania - a multitude of cold, dark isles, regularly pounded by atrocious weather and hardly visited, but rich in atypical Australian history. This is the story of his personal odyssey among them (plag ...Show more
Turning Point: The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat in World War II by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Aust soldiers in the Milne Campaign of 1942
Told for the first time, this is the epic story of the Milne Bay campaign of 1942 - which saw Japanese land forces suffer their first defeat of the war - and has properly been called the RAAF's forgotten finest hour. September 1942 marked the high-point of Axis conquest in World War II. In the Pacific, ...Show more
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