Additional reading

General

A Very Long War [2000] ISBN: 0522849091 Area: Pacific By: Margaret Reeson Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Comments: Experiences of families of men missing in the New Guinea Islands in WW II; how they coped alone, after evacuation, during the war & with death or uncertainty after it.
An Entertaining War [1986] ISBN: 0949825131 Area: Worldwide By: Michael Pate Publisher: Dreamweaver Books
Comments: Author was British P.O.W. captured at Singapore. He describes his time at Changi & includes many of the drawings he secretly made during his captivity.
At The Front Line [1996] ISBN: 0521560373 Area: Worldwide By: Mark Johnston Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Comments: Experiences of Australian soldiers in World War 2.
Australia In The War Of 1939-45 MEDICAL Vol.I : Clinical Problems Of War [1956] ISBN: No Area: Worldwide By: Allan S. Walker Publisher: Australian War Memorial
Comments: None written yet.
Australia In The War Of 1939-45 MEDICAL Vol.II : Middle East And Far East [1962] ISBN: No Area: Asia, Middle East By: Allan S. Walker Publisher: Australian War Memorial
Comments: None written yet.
Australia In The War Of 1939-45 MEDICAL Vol.III : The Island Campaigns [1957] ISBN: No Area: Pacific By: Allan S. Walker Publisher: Australian War Memorial
Comments: None written yet.
Australia In The War Of 1939-45 MEDICAL Vol.IV : Medical Services Of The R.A.N. And R.A.A.F. [1961] ISBN: No Area: Worldwide By: Allan S. Walker Publisher: Australian War Memorial
Comments: None written yet.
Australian Bushcraft [UNKNOWN] ISBN: No Area: Australia By: To add Publisher: Australian Army Education Service
Comments: 46 page booklet written by the Army for basic survival in the outback (making fire, miscellaneous hints, finding water & food) .
Australians Awarded [2008] ISBN: 9780975224571 Area: Australia By: Clive Johnson Publisher: Renniks Publications Pty Ltd
Comments: Concise guide to military and civilian decorations, medals and other awards to Australians from 1815 to 2007.
Captives [1986] ISBN: 0702219266 Area: Pacific By: Catherine Kenny Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Comments: Australian Army nurses in Japanese prison camps. Describes camps on Sumatra, Banka, Rabaul & Japan including the Banka Island massacre.
Captivity, Slavery And Survival As A Far East P.O.W. [2012] ISBN: 1848846223 Area: Pacific By: Peter Fyans Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Comments: Gunner of Royal Artillery captured in Far East by Japanese. His used his skills as a conjuror on the Burma Railway to distract the guards.
Churchill And Australia [2008] ISBN: 9781405038706 Area: Worldwide By: Graham Freudenberg Publisher: Macmillan
Comments: Describes Churchill's crusty relations with Australia 1907 - 1955. Author contends this was because Churchill saw Australia as part of the British Empire, not as an independent entity.
Did Singapore Have To Fall? [2005] ISBN: 0415374146 Area: Asia By: Karl Hack & Kevin Blackburn Publisher: Routledge
Comments: Scholarly account of the factors involved in the fall of Singapore and examination of the differing views on its cause.
Doctors At War [1945] ISBN: No Area: Worldwide By: Morris Fishbein Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc
Comments: U.S. medical corps doctors saving lives and performing advanced surgery.
Echoes Of ANZAC [2005] ISBN: 0734408099 Area: Worldwide By: Graham Seal Publisher: Thomas C. Lothian Pty Ltd
Comments: Verses of Australians at many wars.
Eyewitness To War [1985] ISBN: 0949193003 Area: Pacific By: Dreamweaver Magazines Publisher: Dreamweaver Magazines
Comments: Australia's Pacific Campaign 1941-1945 from Malaya to Balikpapan with many photos.
Fighting The Enemy [2000] ISBN: 0521782228 Area: Worldwide By: Mark Johnston Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Comments: How Australian soldiers interacted with enemy troops and their attitudes.
Heroes of the Winchelsea District Volume Two World War 2 [2002] ISBN: 095907032X Area: Worldwide By: Nancy Mawson, Christine Alsop & Robin Mawson Publisher: Snap Printing Geelong
Comments: A page per serviceman or woman from Winchelsea area and general information on World War 2.
High Command [1992] ISBN: 1863733337 Area: Worldwide By: David Horner Publisher: Allen Unwin Pty Ltd
Comments: Political background and decision making of the Australian contribution to World War 2.
Imperial Japan's World War Two 1931-1945 [2007] ISBN: 9780765803528 Area: Asia By: Werner Gruhl Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Comments: An American looks at the effect Japanese invasions and occupations had on other Asian nations.
Invading Australia [2008] ISBN: 9780670029259 Area: Asia By: Peter Stanley Publisher: Viking
Comments: Author considers whether Japan intended to invade Australia and reasons for answers to this question.
Matilda Waltzes With The Tommies [1944] ISBN: No Area: Middle East By: Mary Kent Hughes Publisher: Oxford University Press
Comments: War-time travels and service in the Middle East of an Australian woman doctor enlisted with British Army.
Nippon Very Sorry - Many Men Must Die [1990] ISBN: 0864391129 Area: Worldwide By: Queensland Ex-POW Reparation Committee Publisher: Boolarong Publications
Comments: Submission to Human Rights Commission of U.N. Organisation claiming reparations from Government of Japan on behalf of Australian Ex-P.O.W.s. Includes Japanese map of Railway.
No Memory For Pain [1970] ISBN: 0855610077 Area: Worldwide By: F. Kingsley Norris Publisher: William Heinemann Australia Pty Ltd
Comments: Autobiography of A.A.M.C. doctor who served in Syria (references to Litani, Merdjayoun, Damour, garrison after ceasefire and P.O.W.s being returned from France), New Guinea (Kokoda and Shaggy Ridge) during WWII and in the Korean War.
North Queensland WWII 1942-1945 [1988] ISBN: 9311662086587 Area: Australia By: P. D. Wilson Publisher: Government Printing Office
Comments: Describes the military forces based in Queensland during world war 2 and their effects on the areas.
On All Fronts [1989] ISBN: 0702221600 Area: Worldwide By: J. T. Laird Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Comments: Stories drawn from different books. Sections include New Guinea, Changi and F Force in Burma.
On The Home Front [1990] ISBN: 0195531264 Area: Australia By: Kate Darian-Smith Publisher: Oxford
Comments: Melbourne in wartime 1939-45: work, housing, family, entertainment, morality, and the Americans.
Our Home Front 1939-45 [1995] ISBN: 1863502033 Area: Australia By: Andrew Bolt Publisher: Herald Sun
Comments: Excerpts from The Herald and The Sun News Pictorial from 2 September 1939 to 15 August 1945.
Pacific War Odyssey [1995] ISBN: No Area: Pacific By: Ron Leech Publisher: UNKNOWN
Comments: Summary of the Pacific War from Japanese Peking invasion to atomic bombing of Japan.
Papua New Guinea Battlefields [1974] ISBN: 0851796931 Area: Pacific By: David Holdsworth Publisher: Rigby Limited
Comments: Various photos of battlefields and war relics in Papua New Guinea (present day).
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.
Salvos With The Forces [1995] ISBN: 0959951598 Area: Worldwide By: Walter Hull Publisher: The Salvation Army
Comments: Story of the Salvation Army Representatives on the battle front supporting the troops.
Saving Australia [2006] ISBN: 0734409044 Area: Worldwide By: Bob Wurth Publisher: Lothian Books
Comments: Australian - Japanese relations just before and after World War II and the role played by Japan's first Minister to Australia.
The Eyes of Damien Parer [1963] ISBN: No Area: Worldwide By: Frank Legg Publisher: Rigby Ltd
Comments: Biography of Damien Parer and some of his photos.
The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels And Other Verses [ca1944] ISBN: No Area: Pacific By: NX6925 Sapper Bert Beros Publisher: F. H. Johnston Publishing Company
Comments: Poems written mainly about units involved in the war in New Guinea.
The Hidden Chapters [1995] ISBN: 1875575227 Area: Pacific By: Robert Piper Publisher: Pagemasters Pty Ltd
Comments: Untold stories of Australians at war in the Pacific.
The Home Front Family Album [1991] ISBN: 1863021159 Area: Worldwide By: Sheena Coupe Publisher: Weldon
Comments: Timeline of World War 2 events with advertisements and photos of the time.
The Japanese Army 1931-45 (2) 1942-45 [2002] ISBN: 9781841763545 Area: Asia, Pacific By: Philip Jowett Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Comments: Volume 2 showing 1942-1945 period of deployments, organisation, uniforms and equipment of Japanese Army and auxiliary units in Burma and the Pacific.
The Road to Singapore [2010] ISBN: 9781921509957 Area: Australia By: Augustine Maher IV Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Comments: Author contends Australia's exposure to Japanese invasion was not due to Britain's failure to come to Australia's defence. Rather, it was due to Australia's failure to take responsibility for her own defence.
The Searchers [2000] ISBN: 070223026X Area: Worldwide By: Jim Eames Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Comments: R.A.A.F.'s search for the one thousand Australian airmen posted as missing in the Pacific during World War 2.
The Strength Of A Nation [2006] ISBN: 9781741147148 Area: Worldwide By: Michael McKernan Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Comments: Wide-ranging, readable & scholarly account of Australians at home & abroad 1939-45.
This War Never Ends [2001] ISBN: 0702232742 Area: Worldwide By: Michael McKernan Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Comments: The impact of World War 2 on soldiers, their family and friends, during and afterwards.
We Were There [1987] ISBN: 0670816272 Area: Worldwide By: John Barrett Publisher: Viking
Comments: The views of many World War 2 soldiers on many subjects.
World War II Wasn't All Hell [1988] ISBN: 0091692504 Area: Pacific By: Keith Smith Publisher: Century Hutchinsons Australia Pty Ltd
Comments: Author's account of serving in the Australian 15th Field Ambulance in Australia, New Guinea & the Solomon Islands.
You'll Be Sorry [1990] ISBN: 073168091X Area: Asia, Pacific, Australia By: Ann Holland Publisher: Tarka Publishing
Comments: Recollections of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) volunteers from 1941 to 1945.

Total books : 45