Gallipoli by John Masefield
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This book heralded the beginnings of a federalised Australia, who turned to the legends of the ANZACS and their heroic and also laconic attitude, to redefine their nation. When World War I began, poet John Masefield had joined the staff of a British hospital for French soldiers, serving briefly in 1915 ...Show more
Our Darkest Day: The Tragic Battle of Fromelles by Patrick Lindsay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The Forgotten Islands by Michael Veitch
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Bass Strait has over fifty cold, dark islands that are regularly pounded by atrocious weather and hardly visited. These islands are rich in atypical Australian history: sealers, lighthouse keepers, feuds, Aboriginal 'resettlements', deadly encounters with nature and people who have vanished. Michael Vei ...Show more
Bligh - William Bligh in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Second hand. In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life and career in a ...Show more
Mission 101: The Untold Story of Five Australian Soldiers' Extraordinary War in Ethiopia by Duncan McNab
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the second world war's most daring operations. Leading a small force of Ethiopian freedom fighters on an epic trek across the harsh African bush from the Sudan, the small incursion force entered Italian-occupied E ...Show more
A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate About Remote Aboriginal Australia by Diane Austin-Broos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Great beauty is juxtaposed with seemingly endless grief in remote Aboriginal Australia. Communities which produce magnificent art and maintain ancient ways also face extremes of social stress. Why does our society seem to get it so wrong for remote Aboriginal communities? Why, despite decades of consult ...Show more
Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came in from the Desert by David Rosenberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and been the target of much public and political controversy. For the first time, a US h ...Show more
Beautiful Bodies by Gerald Stone
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1833, the Amphitrite, a convict ship bound for Australia, was wrecked in a storm on the coast of France. She carried 102 female prisoners, 12 of their children, along with the captain and crew. Only three people survived. The reaction of the British government was to cover it up. Gerald Stone recreat ...Show more
The Australian Light Horse by Roland Perry
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Roland Perry is fantastic - a tried and true author who entertains and informs. He saturated the media with Bradman's Invincibles last year and his previous book, Monash, has sold over 30, 000 copies. He is always in demand by mainstream media and always a
Australian Tragic: Gripping Tales from the Dark Side of Our History by Jack Marx
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australian Tragic is about a nation that began its life as a stage for misfortune - and ever since has struggled to outgrow its birthright. These are gripping tales that take us into the heart of this country: tales of genuine catastrophe, of grand chances gone astray, of fools and their plans pathetica ...Show more
Females on the Fatal Shore : Australia's Brave Pioneers by Susanna De Vries
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the story of the lives of 11 significant women who sailed to the colonies in Australia's founding years. Letters and portraits help bring these women to life and describe the dangers and deprivations of pioneering in the 6 colonies that would unite at Federation to form one nation - Australia. T ...Show more
Wild Ride: Rise and Fall of Cobb and Co by Sam Everingham
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Cobb & Co. began when a young American, Freeman Cobb, arrived in Melbourne in the 1950s to seek his fortune and instead of heading to the Victorian goldfields, he started up a coaching transport company: Cobb & Co. But he left Australia a few years later and it was another American Rutherford, w ...Show more