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A Week in September: A story of enduring love from the Burma Railway by Peter Rees
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Through a precious cache of WWII letters, a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and survival, from award-winning and bestselling writer, Peter Rees. Doug Heywood was a grown man when he discovered, in a shoe box hidden in a wardrobe, a time capsule of sorts - ...Show more
Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
Bearing Witness the Remarkable Life of Charles Bean and the Legend He Created by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the journalist who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the historian who did so much to create the Anzac legend and shape the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation. ...Show more
Desert Boys by Peter Rees
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
Australians and New Zealanders fought with great distinction in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East in both World Wars—in places that are now part of our history. Told through the diaries and letters of those who were there, Desert Boys brings to life the experiences, hardships, adventures a ...Show more
Desert Boys: Australians at War from Beersheba to Tobruk and El Alamein by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
About 1,300 Australians died in the desert campaigns of World War I, while another 3,500 died in North Africa and the Middle East during World War II. Thousands more carried the wounds of war for the rest of their lives. Countless families were left behind to mourn the dead and comfort the injured. A ri ...Show more
I am Tim: Life, Politics and Beyond by Peter Rees
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
A heartfelt look at the life of a man who placed his role as a father with an autistic son above his service to the country as deputy prime minister 'My name is Tim, and that is what I want you to call me, except if another officer is present and especially if it is the CO, Lt Col Bennett, then I am Si ...Show more
Killing Juanita by Peter Rees
$28.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The award-winning, definitive account of Australia's most notorious cold case, now fully updated with new information Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True CrimeOn 4 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen set out on foot through the wintry streets of Sydney's red-light district. The chic heiress and newspaper publ ...Show more
Lancaster Men : The Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
Over 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who undertook some of the most dangerous operations of World War II. They flew mission after mission over France and Germany knowing that the odds were against them. Stretched to breaking point, nearly 3500 died in ...Show more
Lancaster Men the Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command by Peter Rees
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
More than 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who undertook some of the most dangerous operations of World War II. They flew raid after raid over France and Germany knowing that the odds were against them. Stretched to breaking point, nearly 3500 died in ...Show more
The Missing Man - From the Outback to Tarakan, the Remarkable Story of Len Waters, the RAAF's Only WWII Aboriginal Fighter Pilot by Peter Rees
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'You were the master of the machine...you were an airman.' Flying Officer Bob CrawfordLen Waters was a Kamilaroi man. Born on an Aboriginal reserve, he left school at thirteen and by twenty was piloting a RAAF Kittyhawk fighter with 78 Squadron in the lethal skies over the Pacific in World War II. It wa ...Show more
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