Additional reading

Escape

Barbed Wire & Bamboo [1993] ISBN: 186373421X Area: Worldwide By: Hugh Clarke and Colin Burgess Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
Comments: Australian P.O.W. stories spanning WW1 and WW2 in Europe and Asia.
Behind Bamboo [UNKNOWN] ISBN: 0140149252 Area: Asia By: Rohan Rivett Publisher: Penquin Books Australia Ltd
Comments: Journalist escaped Singapore. POW Java. To Burma Railway, Burma end, No.3 Branch then Tamarkan, Chungkai, Kanburi & Nakom Nayok. Records own & others experiences. Diary-based.
Blitzkrieg [1977] ISBN: 0809424541 Area: Europe By: Robert Wernick Publisher: Time-Life Books
Comments: Initial attack by Hitler through Holland and Belguim to France and the evacuation of Dunkirk.
Diggers And Greeks [2010] ISBN: 9781742230146 Area: Europe By: Maria Hill Publisher: University of New South Wales Press Ltd
Comments: The Australian campaigns in Greece & Crete.
Escape : A Thousand Miles To Freedom & Hunted [1995] ISBN: No Area: Pacific By: M. Murray Publisher: Seal Books
Comments: Escape from New Ireland in the Pacific of Harry Murray and a group of Australians over 3 months behind enemy lines back to safety. Second part of book is about the Coastwatchers intelligence network.
Escape And Evasion [2001] ISBN: 0304362379 Area: Worldwide By: Ian Dear Publisher: Cassell & Co
Comments: Description of eighteen great escapes and the organisations that set up escape lines.
Escape From Hell: The Sandakan Story [1958] ISBN: No Area: Asia By: Walter Wallace Publisher: Robert Hale Limited
Comments: Australian escaped from Sandakan to the Philippines where he worked with the guerillas before being returned to Australia.
Fear Drive My Feet [1992] ISBN: 0140172564 Area: Pacific By: Peter Ryan Publisher: Penquin Books Australia Ltd
Comments: Author's account of patrolling remote, enemy-infiltrated parts of New Guinea and returning to Allied lines with the incredible help & loyalty of the native New Guineans.
Independent Company [1989] ISBN: 0858593408 Area: Pacific By: Bernard Callinan Publisher: William Heinemann Australia
Comments: Australian Army in Timor 1941 - 1943 guerilla warfare.
My Life with the Samurai [1996] ISBN: 0864178123 Area: Asia By: Anthony Cowling Publisher: Kangaroo Press
Comments: Young British/Singaporean joined R.A.F. Singapore; escaped to Java. Made P.O.W. Worked in Indonesian slave labour camps on Java, Haruku, Ambon & Muna.
Nancy Wake [2002] ISBN: 0732269199 Area: Europe By: Peter FitzSimons Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Comments: Biography of Australia's greatest war heroine known to the Germans as the White Mouse.
Project Kingfisher [1995] ISBN: 0733304893 Area: Pacific By: Athol Moffitt Publisher: ABC Books
Comments: Story of the massacres of the Sandakan P.O.W.s in Borneo and the secret plan for a rescue that never happened.
Shot Down And On The Run [2003] ISBN: 1903365538 Area: Worldwide By: Graham Pitchfork Publisher: The National Archives
Comments: R.A.F. and Commonwealth aircrews who got home from behind enemy lines 1940-1945.
The Bridge at Parit Sulong [2004] ISBN: 0949284653 Area: Asia By: Lynette Ramsay Silver Publisher: The Watermark Press
Comments: Detailed description of the massacre at Parit Sulong; the lead-up to it, survival of a few men and attempt to find the perpetrators to bring them to trial before the Allies opted for reconciliation with Japan.
The Sands Of Dunkirk [1967] ISBN: No Area: Europe By: Richard Collier Publisher: Fontana Books
Comments: Account of the Dunkirk evacuation in May 1940.
The Twilight Squadron [1995] ISBN: 0646253565 Area: Worldwide By: Gary Kendall Publisher: Burdekin Townsville Branch of the Aircrew Association
Comments: Aircrew stories of the R.A.A.F.
The War Journal Of Major Damon Rocky" Gause" [1999] ISBN: 0330362038 Area: Pacific By: Damon Gause Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
Comments: 159 day escape of U.S. soldier from the Bataan Death March and then by leaky boat to Australia.
They Were Expendable [1943] ISBN: No Area: Pacific By: W. L. White Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London & George Jaboor, Melbourne
Comments: Getting MacArthur out of the Philippines & the role played by American Motor Torpedo Boats.
Wingless Victory [1953] ISBN: No Area: Europe By: Anthony Richardson Publisher: Odhams Press Ltd
Comments: Sir Basil Embry's escape from occupied France in 1940.
You'll Die In Singapore [1956] ISBN: No Area: Asia By: Charles McCormac Publisher: Reader's Union Ltd
Comments: Escape by P.O.W. from Singapore, down Sumatra and Java until picked up by a Catalina.

Total books : 20