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.

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.
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.