Books

The 2/24 Australian Infantry Battalion

• Serle, R.P. 2/24 - A history of the 2/24 Australian Battalion 2/24 Australian Battalion association 1986
• Baillieu, Everard Both sides of the Hill 2/24 Battalion Association 1987

1941-1942 The Western Desert

• Austin, Louise Journey to Tobruk: John Murray - bushman, soldier, survivor Pier 9 2009
• Badman, P. North Africa 1940-1942 The Desert War Time-Life, Sydney 1989
• Barber, Jack The War, the Whores and the Afrika Korps Kangaroo Press, Roseville 1997
• Barnett, C. The Desert Generals Viking Press, New York 1961
• Clune, Frank From Tobruk to Turkey A & R 1945
• Cochrane, P. Tobruk 1941 ABC Books 2005
• Collier, R. World War II War in the Desert Time-Life 2004
• Devine, John The Rats of Tobruk A &R, Sydney 1943
• Fearnside, G.H. Soujourn in Tobruk Ure Smith, Sydney 1944
• Forty, G. The Desert War Sutton Publlishing, Stroud 2002
• Glassop, L. We Were the Rats Currey O'Neill, South Yarra 1982
• Goldman, R. A Hospital at War Boolarong Publications, Brisabane 1983
• Goldman, R. I was a Rat - Tobruk 1941 CopyRight Publishing, Brisbane 2004
• Hall, T. Tobruk 1941 The Desert Siege Methuen, North Ryde 1984
• Harrison, F. Tobruk - The Great Siege Reassessed Brockhampton Press, London 1999
• Heckstall-Smith, A. Tobruk The Story of a Siege Anthony Blond 1959
• Hill, R. Desert Conquest Jarrod's Publishers, London 1943
• Jarrott, Aubrey Two Wars and a Family (privately publsihed) Myrtleford 1997
• Johnston, M. That Magnificent 9th Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest 2002
• Latimer, J. Tobruk 1941 Rommel's Opening Move Osprey Military 2001
• Long, G. To Benghazi Australian War Memorial, Canberra 1952
• Lyman, Robert The Longest Siege Tobruk Macmillan, Sydney 2009
• Maughan, B. Tobruk and El Alamein Australian War Memorial, Canberra 1966
• Moorehead, Alan Mediterranean Front George Jaboor, Melbourne 1941
• Monteath, Peter P.O.W. Macmillan, Sydney 2011
• Murray, John J. I Confess - A Memoir of the Siege of Tobruk Bug Sly Publlishing 2011
• Pitt. Barrie The Crucible of War: Western Desert 1941 Jonathan Cape, London 1980
• Pitt. Barrie The Crucible of War: Year of Alamein 1942 Paragon House, New York 1990
• Sadler, John El Alamein Amberley Publishing 2010
• Wahlert, Glenn The Western Desert Campaign 1940-41 Austrlian Army Campaign Series - 2, Army History Unit, Canmbewrra 2006
• Salter, J.C. (Chaplain) A Padre with the Rats of Tobruk Walch & Sons, Hobart 1946
• Wilmot, Chester Tobruk A & R Sydney 1945

The Pacific - New Guinea and Tarakan

• Charlton, Peter The Unnecessary War - Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944-45 Macmillan, 1983
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• Threfall, Adrian Jungle Warriors Allen & Unwin 2014

Film - VCR and DVD

Documentaries

• Tobruk
  Narrated by Peter Fitzsimons. The DVD is a summary narration of the book and includes a separate section of Movietone and Cinesound newsreels with many aspects of Tobruk - including the opening of the German Memorial in Tobruk!

  Made by Filmworld which appears to have been acquired by ThoughtEquityMotion (a US company with an office in Sydney) and who now have release rights to Cinesound and Movietone.

• Battle for the Desert
  This contains newsreel of El Alamein and American newsreels of Tunisia, but it also contains an interview with Alan Macfarlane (currently President of the 2/24th Battalion Assoc) and covers from Benghazi through to withdrawal from Tobruk. No contact address on their website.

  Shock DVD, a division of Shock Entertainment Group (Australian Coy).

Movies

• The Fighting Rats of Tobruk
  Story of three men (Rafferty, Taylor and Finch) who join up and fight in Tobruk.

  DVD with Peter Finch, Grant Taylor, Chips Rafferty, George Wallace and Pauline Garrick. Directed by Charles Chauvel, written by Charles and Elsa Chauvel. B&W, released in December 1944. Time: 68mins.

• The Desert Fox
  Thought to be one of Mason's best roles.

  DVD with James Mason as Rommel with Cedric Hardwicke and Jessica Tandy. Released in 1951 it depicts Rommel's final years based on the biography by Colonel Desmond Young. Has been criticised as glossing over Rommel's early admiration of Hitler. B&W, made in USA. 88 mins.

• The Desert Rats
  Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer who is put in charge of a group of troops on the perimeter of Tobruk.

  DVD - Released in 1953 with Richard Burton, Robert Newton, James Mason, Chips Rafferty and Charles (Bud) Tingwell.