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Flak: True Stories from the Men Who Flew in World War II by Michael Veitch
Category: Military
Michael Veitch's life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War led him to conclude that every single person who flew, or flew in them has at least one extraordinary story to tell. With most of these veterans in their eighties, he knew that it was a matter of urgency to find them now, bef ...Show more
Fly: True Stories of Adventure and Courage from the Airmen of World War 2 by Michael Veitch
Category: Military
Here are stories of bravery and fear, moments of terror and relief and vivid details of flying under fire. A passion for history and a boyhood obsession with World War II aircraft inspired Michael Veitch to record these stories of combat, fear and comradeship before they vanished.
Fly: True Stories of Courage and Adventure from the Airmen of World War II by Michael Veitch
Category: Biography
Fly is Michael Veitch's second collection of 24 interviews with pilots, navigators, and gunners--now all in their 80s--who flew during the Second World War. Here are stories of bravery and fear, moments of terror and relief, and vivid details of flying under fire. A passion for history and a boyhood ob ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
Category: History
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
Category: Australiana
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better lif ...Show more
Hell Ship (Audio CD; unabridged; 7 CDs) by Michael Veitch (read by the author)
Category: Audio
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better lif ...Show more
Hell Ship Audio MP3 by Michael Veitch (Read by)
Category: Audio
In the summer of 1852 a ghost ship rounded the heads of Port Phillip Bay. It was the clipper Ticonderoga, three months out from Liverpool, carrying emigrants from the Highlands of Scotland to a new life in Australia. When she'd set out, almost 800 of them were crowded into her 170 foot hull. The first d ...Show more
Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
Category: Military
"Every veteran has a story. Sometimes these stories become part of family folklore. Sometimes they are too terrible to speak of. In April 1943 Cyril Burcher bombed a German U-boat, killing its entire crew. Thirty years later, a letter arrived for him out of the blue from the daughter of the U-boat capta ...Show more
Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
Category: Military
'It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river of their memories, sensing, on occasion, a kind of urg ...Show more
Heroes of the Skies (Audio CD, unabridged, 6 CDs) by Michael Veitch
Category: Audio
'It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river of their memories, sensing, on occasion, a kind of urg ...Show more
Southern Surveyor: Stories from Onboard Australia's Ocean Research Vessel by Michael Veitch
Category: Australiana
This engaging book tells the stories of the men and women who worked onboard CSIRO's research vessel - the Southern Surveyor. For ten years (2003-2013) this magnificent ship sailed over 190 voyages across the seas and oceans around Australia and contributed a wealth of knowledge to marine science. From ...Show more