Penguin Books Australia

The official companion book to the HBO® miniseries available on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Hugh Ambrose's bestseller follows the struggles and triumphs of four US Marines and a US Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II. 

More than 75,000 Australians and New Zealanders went to war on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. They shared a horror, but their courage on a battlefield of tragic errors and unimaginable suffering helped build a legend, the legend of the Anzacs. The Anzacs lost more men on the Western Front than they did against the Turks at Gallipoli. Yet, rightly or wrongly, Gallipoli is etched deepest into the Australian...

At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five more were wounded, one of whom died six weeks later. The survivors returned from war, more-or-less intact, to live through the next sixty-odd years...

In this intensely personal account, Barry Heard draws on his own experiences as a young conscript, along with those of his comrades to look back at life before, during, and after the Vietnam War. The result is a sympathetic vision of a group of young men who were sent off to war completely unprepared for the emotional and psychological impact it would have on them.

At once fable and history, Cafi Scheherazade...

Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier.

Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typical Anzac, fiercely patriotic, he enlisted in the A.I.F. in 1915, several months under-age. He spent...

In World War II, there were all too many ways for a fighting man to die.  But no theater of operations offered more fatal choices than the skies above Nazi-occupied Europe.  Inside a B-17 bomber, thousands of feet above the earth, death was always a moment away.  From the hellish storms of enemy flak and relentless strafing of Luftwaffe fighters, to midair collisions, mechanical failure...

I AM AN OLD MAN NOW.
BUT MANY YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG,
I HELPED TO DEFEAT THE GREATEST EVIL THE
WORLD HAD EVER KNOWN.

I was little more than a boy when my beloved France fell to the Nazi invaders.  But when Winston Churchill recruited me as a 'special' secret agent shortly thereafter, my youth did not matter.  All that mattered was my determination to rid Europe of the Nazi scourge...

TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

'A superb meditation on time, loss and retrieval. A new kind of writing, combining fiction, memoir, travelogue, philosophy and much else besides . . . greatness in literature is still possible' 
John Banville, Irish Times , Books of the Year

Winner, 2009 Asher Literary Award

Three generations,
two world wars,
one family

The young men who worked in the canefields of northern New South Wales in 1914 couldn't wait to set off for the adventure of war. The women coped as best they could, raised the children, lived in fear of an official telegram. They grieved for those killed, and learnt of worse things than death in combat. They bore more...

The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 destroyed New Zealand's fantasies of war as a glorious schoolboy adventure on behalf of a beloved Empire. The Western Front campaign that followed in 1916–18 gave shape to the emotional impact. It was a horror world of death and mud that destroyed the souls of the young men who fought in it. Together, these two campaigns shaped the lives of a generation of New Zealanders...

'Fly is an absorbing read thanks to the amazing and previously untold stories Veitch collected from aging pilots, navigators and gunners.' HERALD SUN

With an Introduction by
Hew Strachan

'An established classic . . . accurate and detailed in observation of the war scene and its human figures'
D.J. Enright