Velzen Marianne Van: 3 books
Missing in Action
Australia's World War I Grave Services, an astonishing true story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
By the end of World War I, 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. Some bodies had been hastily buried mid-battle in massed graves; others were mutilated beyond recognition. Often men were simply listed as 'Missing in Action' because nobody knew for sure.
Lieutenant Robert Burns was...
Bomber Boys
The extraordinary adventures of a group of airmen who escaped the Japanese and became the RAAF's celebrated 18th Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
March 1942. Java is about to fall. An Australian military dispatch rider and a Dutch air force transport pilot embark on a frightening escape from the advancing Japanese that takes them from Bandung to a crash landing just north of Darwin. Both would later join a unique band of flyers determined to...
Call of the Outback
The remarkable story of Ernestine Hill, nomad, adventurer and trailblazer
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia's vast outback.
After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill abandoned her comfortable urban life as a journalist for a nomadic one, writing about this...