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Avonmore Books

Avonmore Books is an Australian publisher specialising in military and aviation history books, with a particular interest in WWII Pacific War aviation. Avonmore prides itself in being the only mainstream Australian military history publisher producing full colour illustrated books. Avonmore Books strives to produce books that are a pleasure to own and read, and which incorporate first-class aircraft profiles, artwork and maps. Many of Avonmore's titles match both Japanese and Allied records for a unique and factual account of Pacific War campaigns. This approach was recognised internationally when South Pacific Air War Volume 2 was listed as one of the best global WWII books of 2018 by the respected US book review site Stone & Stone.

Pacific Adversaries - Volume Three Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 102
ISBN: 9780648665953
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2020
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
This Volume Three of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the exaggerated claims made by both sides upon which many traditional histories have relied to date. Further, for each of the chosen stories photographic or other evidence enables an accurate depiction of the aircraft involved.
Pacific Profiles - Volume One Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780648665915
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2020
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese aircraft in the “South Seas” theatre. Volume One illustrates, by unit, Japanese Army Air Force fighter aircraft operating in New Guinea and the Solomons from December 1942 to April 1944. In this theatre numerous different aircraft types and their variants were assigned to eleven fighter regiments which formed the 4th Air Army.
Pacific Adversaries - Volume Two Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 108
ISBN: 9780648665908
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2020
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
This Volume Two of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the exaggerated claims made by both sides upon which many traditional histories have relied to date. Further, for each of the chosen stories photographic or other evidence enables an accurate depiction of the aircraft involved.
The Empire Strikes South Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9780648665939
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2020
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
Very few Australians today know of the fierce air battles fought across the Top End of Australia in World War II.For more than two years Japanese aircraft crossed the coast and bombed relentlessly. Savage dogfights were fought between the legendary Zero fighter and Allied Kittyhawks and Spitfires.
Pacific Adversaries - Volume One Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780646803142
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2019
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
This volume conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the exaggerated claims made by both sides upon which many traditional histories have relied to date. Further, for each of the chosen stories photographic or other evidence enables an accurate depiction of the aircraft involved.
South Pacific Air War Volume 2 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780994588975
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2018
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
This second volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific for the two crucial months of March and April 1942 when a deadly struggle for Port Moresby played out. It can be read alone or as part of a trilogy that culminates in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. The period begins with the stunning 10 March US Navy carrier strike against Lae and Salamaua, which caused the Japanese to pause their advance until their own carriers were available.
South Pacific Air War Volume 1 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 252
ISBN: 9780994588944
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2017
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
This volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific from December 1941 until March 1942, durign which air operations by both sides became a daily occurrence. As Imperial Japanese Navy flying boats and land-based bombers penetrated over vast distances, a few under-strength squadrons of the Royal Australian Air Force put up a spirited fight. However it was the supreme power of aircraft carriers that had the biggest impact.
Carrier Attack Darwin 1942 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780987151933
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2013
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
When the Pacific war began it was a case of “when not if” Darwin would be attacked. But nobody could have predicted the extraordinary scale and ferocity of the 19 February 1942 raid. A massive strike force, blooded at Pearl Harbor just weeks before, hit Darwin in the biggest Japanese air attack ever in the South Pacific.
The Submarine Six Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 202
ISBN: 9780987151919
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2011
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
Naval conflicts take place often far from our shores. Ships and men sometimes disappear, to leave only mystery in their wake. In the 1990s the Royal Australian Navy broke with tradition, and for the first time named six submarines after naval heroes.
RRP: £9.95
Darwin's Submarine I-124 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 182
ISBN: 9780957735194
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2010
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
The first attacks on Australia by the Japanese were made by four submarines of the Sixth Submarine Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Together, these 80-man boats laid mines, and then waited in their killing zones for targets to torpedo. On 20 January 1942, it all went horribly wrong.
RRP: £9.95
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