Flak

History

Michael Veitch

Military

Pan Macmillan/Australia

The Forgotten Islands

Travel

Australia & South Pacific

Penguin

History of Saratoga thoroughbred racing for those years. Famous people, horses, and events.

Summit of Champions: Thoroughbred Racing in Saratoga Springs 1901-1955

Sports & Outdoors

Privately Published

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, before their personal stories disappear forever.From bomber pilots to fighter aces, from rear gunners to bomb aimers, from stories of death and fear to tales of humor and comradeship, Michael has helped unearth the extraordinary stories of ordinary men living and fighting in extraordinary times.

Bolinda Audio

Heroes of the Skies

Fly: True Stories of Courage and Adventure from the Airmen of World War II

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 obsession with World War II aircraft inspired Michael Veitch to record these stories of combat, fear and comradeship before they vanished.

"The more I learned, the more I realised this was an Australia I hardly knew. This was stormy weather Australia, an Australia of shipwrecks and sealers; of brutality and extermination; of folly and heroism; of wild weather and explorers in flimsy boats; of thousand-foot cliffs and amazing birds and strange vegetation; of places well-trodden and others believed never to have felt the impact of a human foot. This was a truly gothic Australia, as real and as valid as the gold and the drovers and the deserts, yet known to almost no one." Michael Veitch has long been fascinated by the islands of Bass Strait, between mainland Australia and Tasmania-a multitude of cold, dark isles, regularly pounded by atrocious weather and hardly visited, but rich in atypical Australian history. This is the story of his personal odyssey among them (plagued at times by appalling seasickness, airsickness and stinging nettles).

Forgotten Islands, The

Australia & Oceania

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Books by Michael Veitch