Uncommon Soldier : Brave, Compassionate and Tough, the Making of Australia's Modern Diggers by Chris Masters
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Chris Masters, the country's foremost investigative journalist, turns his penetrating gaze on the modern Australian soldier. Moving away from our ongoing fascination with Anzac story, he looks at the rich and illuminating present to write a character study of the modern Australian soldier - war fighter, ...Show more
Well May We Say...: The Speeches That Made Australia by Sally Warhaft
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Memorable speeches define a people and a place: they define a nation. It is impossible to imagine Australia's past without Peter Lalor's rallying cry at the Eureka Stockade or Ned Kelly's last words from the dock. Or to imagine recent decades without Pauline Hanson's controversial maiden speech in parli ...Show more
Last Woman Hanged: The terrible, true story of Louisa Collins by Caroline Overington
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
One woman. Two husbands. Four trials. One bloody execution. The last woman hanged in NSW. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands died suddenly. The C ...Show more
The Nashos' War : Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of our National Obsession by James Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Redback Ser.
"A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It's right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven't we learned about war, and what might ...Show more
Memoirs of an Anzac A First-Hand Account by an AIF Officer in the First World War by John Charles Barrie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The first publication of an AIF officer's revealing memoir. Against his mother's wishes, John Charles Barrie joined the Australian army in 1909. Five years later, he was on his way to Egypt as an officer with the Australian Imperial Force. He survived the war to write his memoirs, which were kept by his ...Show more
Mawson's Remarkable Men by David Jensen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1911, the Australian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson left Hobart on the Aurora, headed for Antarctica. Much is known about Mawson and tales of his exploits are often retold. But Mawson did not go alone. What of the men who set off with him and without whom he could have achieved little? Who ...Show more
A Journey Travelled: Aboriginal-European Relations at Albany and Surrounding Regions from First Contact to 1926 by Murray Arnold
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is a pivotal story long overdue for the telling: how Aboriginal and European people interacted with each other following the British territorial invasion of 1826 for the next hundred years. There has always been a wealth of documentary and oral history available to researchers prepared to write fro ...Show more
The Dismissal by Paul Kelly & Troy Bramston
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
There is no more dramatic event in our political history than the dismissal. This book is the definitive story, filled with fresh documents, revelations and new interviews that change our understanding of this event. It is also a brilliant forensic analysis of the ruthless, proud and stubborn main playe ...Show more
Flying Kangaroo: Untold Stories of QANTAS and the People Who Made a Great Australian Airline by Jim Eames
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From its earliest days, Qantas has attracted its fair share of unusual challenges and unique characters. These are the stories of a great airline and the people who made it told by a man who has Qantas running through his veins. Full of nostalgia for a company in its prime, they are hilarious, heroic, a ...Show more
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975 (HB) by John Blaxland
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War, and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering, ...Show more
The Europeans in Australia: A History: Volume Two - Democracy by Alan Atkinson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Europeans in Australia Ser.
The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. Volume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century communications revolution Atkinson casts new light ...Show more