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Book review: The Flag’s Up

Book reviewer · Sep 5, 2017 ·

By Peter Poland. Published by Halstead Press, Sydney in 2017. Soft cover of 176 pages with plentiful supply of black & white and colour photographs. Available from booksellers and online ...

Book Review: Aus-Ships 2017 (CD)

Book reviewer · Sep 5, 2017 ·

Somewhat unusually we have been asked to review a CD. Aus-Ships 2017 by Tony Starke, revised by Rex Cox and Robert Fildes. This is the fourth and greatly improved edition ...

Book Review: HMAS Sydney II in Peace and War

Book reviewer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

By Wes Olson, Privately Published at Hilton, WA in 2016, 610 Pages with maps and photographs. Available direct from the author at email: wes.dale@westnet.com.au. Price $60.00 plus postage. Aside from ...

Book Review: HMAS Canberra – Casualty of Circumstance

Book reviewer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

By Kathryn Spurling, Publishers New Holland, Sydney, 2016. Paperback, 255 pp with b & w illustrations, maps and portraits. Available most bookshops from $33.00 with discounts available. The author served ...

Book review: Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan

Book reviewer · Mar 29, 2017 ·

By Mike Carlton. Penguin Random House, Sydney, August 2016. Hardcover 642 pages with illustrations and many b&w photographs. RRP $50 – discounts available. Some naval history books traverse well-worn tracks ...

Book review: False Flags – Disguised German Raiders of World War II

Book reviewer · Mar 29, 2017 ·

By Stephen Robinson. Publishers Exisle, Wollombi, NSW, August 2016. Hardcover, 359 pages with many b&w photographs and good quality maps. RRP $28.00. There is a plentiful supply of publications on ...

Book Review: Bravo Zulu: Honours and Awards to Australian Naval People Volume 1: 1900-1974

Book reviewer · Dec 28, 2016 ·

By Ian Pfennigwerth. Echo Books, Geelong, 2016. Hardcover & Paperback with illustrations, maps and index, 775 pages. RRP from $65. Available through Echo Books at www.echobooks.com.auor from Ian Pfennigwerth at ...

Book review: The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945

Book reviewer · Dec 28, 2016 ·

By Peter Hennessy and James Jinks, Publishers Allen Lane, 2015, Hardcover & Paperback, 864 pages. RRP from $30. To many people the submarine is a mystery – what do they ...

Book Review: Waterline Warships

Book reviewer · Dec 14, 2016 ·

Waterline Warships by Philip Read. Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley (UK) The author is a professional model maker who has been commissioned to build a static waterline model of the Ca class ...

Book Review: John Jess, Seeker of Justice

Book reviewer · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By Elizabeth McCarthy. Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, 2015. Paperback 320 pages. RRP $29.95 but discounts available. This book, published in August 2015, was written by a daughter of John Jess ...

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