World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian
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World War, 1939-1945
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- The diaries of Donald Friend, edited by Anne Gray, Volume 1
- Stubborn buggers, survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven, Tim Bowden
- Ray Parkin's wartime trilogy, Ray Parkin
- Billy, my life as a teenage POW, Lynette Silver, Keith (Billy) Young
- The dictates of destiny, an autobiography, by Royce Hall
- Digger's story, surviving the Japanese POW camps was just the beginning, David Barrett ; Brian Robertson
- Australian commandos, their secret war against the Japanese in World War II, A.B. Feuer ; foreword by Robert Barr Smith ; afterwords by George Folta and John Keith Leasure
- The diggers of Colditz, the classic Australian POW story about escape from the inescapable, Jack Champ and Colin Burgess
- Active service with Australia in the Middle East
- Ray Parkin's odyssey, Pattie Wright
- Centaur, death of a hospital ship
- The battle within, POWs in postwar Australia, Christina Twomey
- From the Somme to Singapore, a Medical Officer in two world wars
- A week in September, a story of enduring love from the Burma Railway, Peter Rees & Sue Langford
- A long way home, one POW's story of escape and evasion during World War II, Charles Granquist
- The last of the last, the final survivor of the First World War, Claude Choules
- Doc's war, New Guinea, the final campaign, Tom McSweeny
- The battles for Kokoda Plateau, three weeks of hell defending the gateway to the Owen Stanleys, David W. Cameron
- Ryan's luck, a life of Peter Ryan MM, John Tidey
- The lost battalions, a battle that could not be won. An island that could not be defended. An ally that could not be trusted, Tom Gilling ; read by David Tredinnick
- Larrikins in khaki, tales of irreverence and courage from World War II diggers, Tim Bowden ; narrated by Stephen Hunter
- A true story of the Great Escape, a young Australian POW in the most audacious breakout of WWII, Louise Williams
- Diary of a spitfire pilot, Granville Allen Mawer
- RAAF Black Cats, Robert Cleworth and John Suter Linton ; read by David Tredinnick
- A very short war
- Saving Port Moresby, fighting at the end of the Kokoda Track, David W. Cameron
- The Changi book, edited by Lachlan Grant
- The diggers of Colditz, the classic Australian POW story about escape from the inescapable, Jack Champ and Colin Burgess
- Moody's tale, the story of Corporal Horrie, James Bell Moody ; read by John Derum
- Men of the line, building the Burma-Thai railway, 1942-1945, Gordon Nelson
- Tomorrow we escape, one man's extraordinary story of courage and survival from Tobruk to the prison camps of occupied Europe, Tom Trumble
- Great escaper, a young POW in the most audacious breakout of WWII, Louise Williams
- Jack Bell's war, the remarkable story of an Australian airman and POW in North Africa, Italy and Germany, Marcus Fielding
- Behind bamboo, hell on the Burma railway, Rohan Rivett ; foreword by Weary Dunlop
- Thinks he's a bird, from postal clerk to pathfinder pilot : a wartime journey of love, loss, mateship and sacrifice, Ian Campbell
- A week in September, a story of enduring love from the Burma Railway [Kiosk], Peter Rees & Sue Langford
- The way my father tells it, [the story of an Australian life], by Tim Bowden
- Great Australian World War II stories, from the annals of the RSL, edited by John Gatfield ; read by Jim Daly
- A doctor's war, Rowley Richards
- The way my father tells it, [the story of an Australian life], by Tim Bowden
- Soldiering on, the Australian Army at home and overseas, prepared by some of the boys
- On paths of ash, the extraordinary story of an Australian prisoner of war, Robert Holman ; edited by Peter Thomson
- Barney Greatrex, from bomber command to the French Resistance, Michael Veitch
- The war diaries of Weary Dunlop, Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945
- The lost battalions, a battle that could not be won, an island that could not be defended, an ally that could not be trusted, Tom Gilling
- One fourteenth of an elephant, a memoir of life and death on the Burma-Thailand railway, Ian Denys Peek
- Black knights
- Stoker Munro survivor, David Spiteri
- Girls' own war stories
- Jack of hearts: QX11594, Jackie Huggins & Ngaire Jarro
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