Our Mob Served: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories of War and Defending Australia
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander war time and defence service, told through the vivid oral histories and treasured family images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of ...Show more
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau: How Australia’s Signals-Intelligence Network Shortened the Pacific War by David Dufty
$37.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Alan Turing saved millions of lives. But Bletchley Park wasn't the only major code-breaking operation during World War II. Down under, there was Central Bureau.Central Bureau - Australia's own large and sophisticated intelligence network, built from scratch. It was this group of mathematicians, code-bre ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
Australia's Vietnam - Myth vs History by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn't alone. In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myt ...Show more
Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers by Meg Foster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ and their bushranging brethren are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were white men. And not all ...Show more
The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems by Sarah Maddison
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The evidence is incontrovertible. Whatever the policy - from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition - government policies and programs have made little positive diffe ...Show more
44 Days: 75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It's also a top read.' ****ADELAIDE ADVERTISERThe epic World War II story of the heroes of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days when these brave and barely trained pilots fo ...Show more
The Dogs That Made Australia by Guy Hull
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Hunter. Worker. Legend. The untold story of the dog's role in building a nation. The Dogs That Made Australia pays tribute to the dogs that gave their all for our prosperity: the fearless hounds that saved fledgling colonies from famine; the courageous heelers and tireless collies that powered the rise ...Show more
On Our Doorstep: When Australia Faced the Threat of Invasion by the Japanese by Craig Collie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1942 Australia faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese. This is what happened.
The Palace Letters: The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam by Professor Jenny Hocking
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history? And why weren't we told? Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the lett ...Show more
The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit by Larry Writer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The epic story of one of Australia's greatest maritime disasters, the wreck of The Dunbar. At the top of The Gap, the haunted cliffs that front the coast of Sydney's Watsons Bay, sits a massive, battered anchor. It belonged to the Dunbar, an 1186-tonne three-masted clipped en route to Sydney from Plymou ...Show more
Mercedes-Benz: Icon of Style by Alessandro Sannia
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Mercedes-Benz is held in awe by many other manufacturers, for its engineering integrity. The magnificent sports and racing cars of the 1920s and 1930s gave way to the up-market executive saloons and coupes of the 1950s and 1960s, resulting in a half century of excellence. ICONS OF STYLE is a brand new s ...Show more