After a busy week last week in which we added another 300 items to the various store collections, this week we turn our attention to a more quality selection of items rather than quantity. Keep a watch out for some excellent collector items in the Commando Comic Collections ranges including the Vol. 1-4 of the Achtung! Commando Fanzine magazine. With only four editions published these are possibly even rarer than the most sought after early editions of the Commando Comics themselves. We are adding the latest Commando Editions into the store with some excellent artistic work from Kennedy, Harris, Pino, Aldoma just to name a few. These comics have been going for over 60 years now and at current count we have around 8000 of them. A little something for every Chap! Our latest Commando editions can be found here.

Eighty Years ago there were several significant battles and events from the Second World War that have shaped significance in Australian Military History.

This week we will be remembering some of these events with particular focus on the Bombing Of Darwin which has been labelled as 'Australia's Pearl Harbor' due to the initially laid back approach to air defences in place around the strategically significant port. The Bombing of Darwin would also create a sense of urgency to bring home the Australian Divisions fighting in North Africa and additionally establish the political question on was Australia next on the Japanese Expansion to do list? As 1942 developed the question of the Japanese Expansion was answered as the Australian Home Defence rallied North into New Guinea. To meet the Japanese in battle in order to buy some time and slow down the Japanese advance. The Kokoda Track or Americanised 'Kokoda Trail' would take a more brutal challenge as young men from both sides fought mud, malaria and each other in a brutal series of battles. We have a range of quality books covering these battles and events heading into collection this week. Find them here during the week

Chaps, I am very excited to be able to offer some very rare Military History items in the form of some Antique books and inscribed items from significant people in Military History. Some of the books are almost two centuries old and as you gently flip through the pages you get a sense of the Historical significance that no internet wiki could provide for you as a replacement.

I won't reveal too much now, but the quality of items will want you coming back each day to do a quick check in on what has snuck into collections when you weren't looking.

Don't forget to please add your reviews to products you have read or have brought from the store. We love reading the impact the items have had on you and especially the link to your own personal story.

Now I do have to be careful with a few of the new items this week, as we have a few books that might be more suitable when the Younger Chaps go to bed. If you enjoy having a quick peek at those cute looking Pin-Up Girls painted on the WWII Bombers then these books are perfect for your 'study' of Military History. Every Chap needs to have a good reference material for his research from time to time and selfishly its going to be important to move these fast as the 'Mrs. Tally Ho Chap' knows exactly was is on those top shelves in the store. So all eyes on deck with these books please.

Finally added into the store this week is the increasingly large collection of Military Journals from RAND and in the current climate quite significant in their content.

As leaders meet in Munich (deja vu anyone?) to decide a NATO reaction to a possible Russian/Belorussian/ Russian Backed Rebel Invasion of Ukraine. What will be the outcome and what will future students of history appraise in the worlds actions?

The events of the Cold War have shaped the start of a new potential hot war and the landmarks of Ukraine once remembered in the Eastern Front Battles of WWII are in the news again. Let's hope things simmer down and thaw as Europe faces a new Spring.

Hope to catch up with you on Saturday at the Store...

Open 10am - 2pm

Tally Ho!

Dave