Second World War

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Book Cover: The Pacific: Hell was an ocean away
By Hugh Ambrose

Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan.

Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the...

Published: 01/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921656101
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover:  Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan
By Robin Gerster
In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved into western Japan to 'demilitarise and democratise' the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima Prefecture. For over six years, up to 20,000 Australian servicemen, including their wives and children, participated in an historic experiment in nation-rebuilding dominated by the United States and the occupation's supreme...
In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved into western Japan to 'demilitarise and democratise' the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima Prefecture. For over...
Published: 27/10/2008
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781921215346
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality
By Richard Overy

The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of one of the pivotal events of the Second World War - the struggle between British and German air forces in the late summer and autumn of 1940. Exposing many of the myths surrounding the conflict, the book provides answers to important questions: how close did Britain really come to invasion? What were Hitler and Churchill's motives? And what was...

The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of one of the pivotal events of the Second World War - the struggle between British and German air forces in the late summer and autumn of 1940. Exposing...

Published: 09/07/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846143564
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  World War II
By H.P Willmot & Robin Cross & Cha Messenger

A compelling and powerful global account of the Second World War in all its brutal intensity, now in paperback

Evoking the epic scale of combat and its appalling impact across the globe, World War II is a unique telling of the Second World War.



A compelling and powerful global account of the Second World War in all its brutal intensity, now in paperback

Evoking the epic scale of combat and its appalling impact across the globe, World War II is...

Published: 26/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781409376491
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
By Lizzie Collingham

Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War.

Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War.

Published: 07/03/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713999648
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
By Keith Lowe

The Second World War left Europe in chaos.

Landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people killed. Across most of the continent, the institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport,local and national government - were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates soared, economies collapsed, and the European population...

The Second World War left Europe in chaos.

Landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people killed. Across most of the continent, the institutions that we now take for granted...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670917464
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies 1939-45

Beyond the Battlefield by Gerald Hensley is the dramatic unknown story of New Zealand's involvement in World War II told for the first time, here in an accessible, popular and enjoyable read.

Savage, Nash, Fraser, Freyberg, Churchill, Roosevelt, Menzies, all great names from New Zealand and world history during the Second World War and all involved in the story of New Zealand's response to the global...

Beyond the Battlefield by Gerald Hensley is the dramatic unknown story of New Zealand's involvement in World War II told for the first time, here in an accessible, popular and enjoyable read.

Savage, Nash...

Published: 31/08/2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670074044
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia 1942
". . . unlike cricket which is a polite game, Australian Rules Football creates a desire on the part of the crowd to tear someone apart, usually the referee . . . "

" . . . The Australian has few equals in the world at swearing . . . the commonest swear words are bastard (pronounced "barstud"), "bugger", and "bloody", and the Australians have a genius for...

". . . unlike cricket which is a polite game, Australian Rules Football creates a desire on the part of the crowd to tear someone apart, usually the referee . . . "

" . . . The Australian...

Published: 30/07/2007
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670071319
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sgt. Forrest Guth
By Larry Alexander

Through the epic war chronicle Band of Brothers , an entirely new generation of Americans learned of the heroism, sacrifice, and camaraderie of the soldiers who served, fought, and died in Easy Company during World War II.

Through the epic war chronicle Band of Brothers , an entirely new generation of Americans learned of the heroism, sacrifice, and camaraderie of the soldiers who served, fought, and died in Easy Company...

Published: 09/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451233158
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Bomber Boys: Heroes Who Flew the B-17s in World War II
By Travis L Ayres

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...

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...

Published: 15/12/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451228710
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the   Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
By Gregory A Freeman

In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.

In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable...

Published: 19/11/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451224958
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover: A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brother and the Legacy They Left Us
By Marcus Brotherton

After chronicling the personal stories of the Band of Brothers in We Who Are Alive and Remain , author Marcus Brotherton presents a collection of remembrances from the families of the soldiers of Easy Company-and how their wartime experiences shaped their lives off the battlefield . . .

Complied from notes, journals, letters, photographs, and the author's personally conducted interviews with the surviving...

After chronicling the personal stories of the Band of Brothers in We Who Are Alive and Remain , author Marcus Brotherton presents a collection of remembrances from the families of the soldiers of Easy...

Published: 09/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425240953
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Hitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare
By Dennis Showalter

'Engagingly written and packed with the kind of shrewd insights so typical of Showalter's work.'
- Richard L. DiNardo, author of Germanys Panzer Arm

On the front lines of World War II, a new strategy was implemented.  Devastating and unstoppable, it would enable the Nazi juggernaut to engulf almost all of Europe . . .



'Engagingly written and packed with the kind of shrewd insights so typical of Showalter's work.'
- Richard L. DiNardo, author of Germanys Panzer Arm

On the front lines of World War II, a new strategy was...

Published: 01/12/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425236895
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Churchills' Secret Agent: A Novel Based on a True Story
By Max Ciampoli & Linda Ciampoli

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...




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. ...




Published: 07/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425229750
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943
By Keith Lowe

In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map.  The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead.

Inferno is a searing account of terrifying destruction: of how and why the Allies dropped a hail of high-explosive and incendiary bombs; of blizzards of sparks, hurricane-force...

In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map.  The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left...

Published: 22/08/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241964248
RRP: $24.99
Book Cover:  Yalta: The Price of Peace
By S M Plokhy

'A colorful and gripping portrait of the three aging leaders at their historic encounter.'
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL


'A colorful and gripping portrait of the three aging leaders at their historic encounter.'
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL


Published: 21/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143118923
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Fly: True Stories of Courage and Adventure from the Airmen of World

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

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

Published: 03/08/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143011941
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Orwell & Politics
This major new collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his evergreen satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm .
This major new collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his evergreen satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm .
Published: 26/06/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141185187
RRP: $28.00
Book Cover:  Hiroshima
By John Hersey
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history.

Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. He added a further chapter when, forty years later, he...

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history.

Written only a year after...

Published: 25/03/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141184371
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Flight to Arras
On 22 May 1940, Antoine de Saint-Exupery set off on a reconnaissance operation from Orly over Nazi-occupied France to Arras. It was a pointless mission, since the French surrender was only weeks away, but still so dangerous that he was not expected to survive it. That journey and his return home are recorded in Flight to Arras , a profound and passionate meditation on mortality and war.

"A thrilling...

On 22 May 1940, Antoine de Saint-Exupery set off on a reconnaissance operation from Orly over Nazi-occupied France to Arras. It was a pointless mission, since the French surrender was only weeks away...
Published: 19/09/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141183183
RRP: $24.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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