WW2 MTO History from Viceroy Books

W Olsen, 2012. New book, 509 pages. Battalion into Battle is the first full history of the 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, to be published. The battalion was formed at Northam Camp in November 1939, and was the first infantry battalion to be raised in Western Australia for overseas service in the Second World War. The book begins… Read more about this item

W Olsen, 2012. New book, 509 pages. Battalion into Battle is the first full history of the 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, to be published. The battalion was formed at Northam Camp in November 1939, and was the first infantry battalion to be raised in Western Australia for overseas service in the Second World War. The book begins… Read more about this item

Longueville Media, 2018. New book, 215 pages. Tobruk to Labuan is an account of Brigadier Colin ‘Hugh’ Boyd Norman’s life told through selected letters from his years of service during the Second World War. They present to the reader a soldier with a clear vision of his responsibilities to his men, and a man of compassion and unswerving integrity. Reading… Read more about this item

Longueville Media, 2018. New book, 215 pages. Tobruk to Labuan is an account of Brigadier Colin ‘Hugh’ Boyd Norman’s life told through selected letters from his years of service during the Second World War. They present to the reader a soldier with a clear vision of his responsibilities to his men, and a man of compassion and unswerving integrity. Reading… Read more about this item

Longueville Media, 2018. New book, 215 pages. Tobruk to Labuan is an account of Brigadier Colin ‘Hugh’ Boyd Norman’s life told through selected letters from his years of service during the Second World War. They present to the reader a soldier with a clear vision of his responsibilities to his men, and a man of compassion and unswerving integrity. Reading… Read more about this item

Longueville Media, 2018. New book, 215 pages. Tobruk to Labuan is an account of Brigadier Colin ‘Hugh’ Boyd Norman’s life told through selected letters from his years of service during the Second World War. They present to the reader a soldier with a clear vision of his responsibilities to his men, and a man of compassion and unswerving integrity. Reading… Read more about this item

Longueville Media, 2018. New book, 215 pages. Tobruk to Labuan is an account of Brigadier Colin ‘Hugh’ Boyd Norman’s life told through selected letters from his years of service during the Second World War. They present to the reader a soldier with a clear vision of his responsibilities to his men, and a man of compassion and unswerving integrity. Reading… Read more about this item

Boolarong Press, 2011. New book, 173 pages. The initial Australian and British victory over Rommels Afrika Korps on Easter Monday 1941 at Tobruk was Germanys first defeat in World War II. Incongruously the vital actions of Queenslands 2/15 Battalion on that day have been generally ignored. For the first time, this investigation places that lost body of infantrymen nearly four… Read more about this item

MacMillan, 2011. New book, 523 pages. Australians from every field of conflict in WW2 found themselves as prisoners in Hitler's notorious Stalags, or prisoner of war camps. Whether captured merchant seamen, bomber crews or soldiers taken in North Africa or the disastrous Greek and Cretan campaigns, they were to see out the war in the heart of Hitler's Europe, their… Read more about this item

Boolarong Press, 2011. New book, 173 pages. The initial Australian and British victory over Rommels Afrika Korps on Easter Monday 1941 at Tobruk was Germanys first defeat in World War II. Incongruously the vital actions of Queenslands 2/15 Battalion on that day have been generally ignored. For the first time, this investigation places that lost body of infantrymen nearly four… Read more about this item

Boolarong Press, 2011. New book, 173 pages. The initial Australian and British victory over Rommels Afrika Korps on Easter Monday 1941 at Tobruk was Germanys first defeat in World War II. Incongruously the vital actions of Queenslands 2/15 Battalion on that day have been generally ignored. For the first time, this investigation places that lost body of infantrymen nearly four… Read more about this item

Viking, 2007. New book, 414 pages. March 1941. The Allied forces have suffered one brutal defeat after another. For Hitler's forces the conquest of Egypt, and the rich oilfields of the Middle East, lie next on the horizon. All that stand in their way are a few Australian brigades defending a town called Tobruk. For eight months the Australian Imperial… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2012. New book, 96 pages, CAM250. The battle of El Alamein saw the shattering of Germany’s hopes for victory in North Africa and from this point on the end was inevitable. In the six months that passed before the final surrender there was much hard fighting, as the defeated German and Italian armies sought to hold off… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2013. New book, 96 pages, CAM251. Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left the North African theater with a jaundiced and dismissive view of the combat capabilities of the inexperienced US Army after… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2013. New book, 96 pages, CAM257. In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft… Read more about this item

Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2006. New book, 96 pages, BTO20. In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster. By early February 1941 the whole of Cyrenaica had been lost, and German help became necessary to avoid the loss of all of Libya. On 14 February 1941 the first echelons of German… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2006. New book, 96 pages, BTO21. The Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) saw the first operational deployment of US armoured divisions in World War II, and the experience proved chastening for the 1st Armored Division when it suffered defeat at the hands of Rommel’s Afrika Korps at the battle of Kasserine Pass. This title covers the organization… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2006. New book, 96 pages, BTO22. While the best-known multi-division airborne operations were carried out in the European Theater of Operations (such as the Normandy landings and Market Garden), a significant number of airborne assaults were conducted in the Mediterranean Theater in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Southern France. These included parachute drops and in some instances… Read more about this item

William Heinemann, 2011. New book, 506 pages. ANZAC Fury" commemorates the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Greece and Crete were released from captivity. In 2010, it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures in… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2012. New book, 64 pages, CMD28. Archibald Wavell remains one of the great Allied commanders of the early phases of World War II. In fact, between June 1940 and June 1941, he was the only British theatre commander actively engaging Axis forces. At a time when the British Expeditionary Force had been expelled from the European continent,… Read more about this item