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Murder at Dusk - How US Soldier and Psychopath Eddie Leonski Terrorised Wartime Melbourne by Ian W. Shaw
$26.39 AUD
$32.99 (20% off)
Category: True Crime
Far away from any World War II battlefront, the citizens of Melbourne lived in fear of a serial killer - the Brownout Strangler. May 1942: Melbourne was torn between fearing Japanese invasion and revelling in the carnival atmosphere brought by the influx of 15,000 cashed-up American servicemen. But tho ...Show more
On Radji Beach: The Story of the Australian Nurses After the Fall of Singapore by Ian W. Shaw
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
When Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942, amongst the evacuees who scrambled to leave were 65 Australian nurses. They boarded a coastal freighter named the Vyner Brooke, which was sunk by the Japanese. The shipwreck survivors marooned on Radji Beach, including 22 nurses, voted to surrender, but were ...Show more
On Radji Beach - Vivian Bullwinkel and the Vyner Brooke by Ian W. Shaw
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses who boarded a coastal freighter named the Vyner Brooke. They only made it as far as the waters off Muntok Island near Sumatra. There, Ja ...Show more
Operation Babylift: The Incredible Story of the Inspiring Australian Women who Rescued Hundreds of Orphans at the End of the Vietnam War by Ian W. Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Orphan Babies of Vietnam War
In late March 1975, as the Vietnam War raged, an Australian voluntary aid worker named Rosemary Taylor approached the Australian Embassy seeking assistance to fly 600 orphans out of Saigon to safety. Rosemary and Margaret Moses, two former nuns from Adelaide, had spent eight years in Vietnam during the ...Show more
The Rag Tag Fleet by Ian W. Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II. Mid-1942: from China to New Guinea, the Pacific belonged to the Japanese. In this desperate situation, a fleet of hundreds ...Show more
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