Great Australian Places: Funny, curious and downright astonishing stories from across a big country by Graham Seal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's master storyteller takes us all around the country, uncovering tales of unsolved crimes, early exploration and military exploits, fascinating natural phenomena and iconic destinations. Wherever you go in Australia, you'll stumble across traces of ancient settlement, remnants of exploration, ...Show more
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new so ...Show more
The Lost Boys by BYRNES
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
Buckley's Chance (PB) by Garry Linnell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. e was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England, ...Show more
Australia & the Pacific: A History by Ian Hoskins
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
There are many ways to present a history of Australia and its Pacific neighbourhood, though there have been remarkably few attempts to do so. Had I worked as a reporter, administrator, aid worker or entrepreneur my insights would be very different. So, too, if I were a missionary or the son of the same. ...Show more
The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'All the violence I had experienced before felt like a bad dream. It was a paradise. I think most of the children felt it was a paradise.' In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read M ...Show more
Australia's Secret Army by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
From acclaimed author Michael Veitch comes this compelling, vivid history of the secret army of civilians who worked with the Australian Defence Force during World War II as 'Coast Watchers', observing Japanese movements along the coastlines and in the jungles of the South Pacific. A Coastwatcher's work ...Show more
The Cowra Breakout by Mat McLachlan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
During World War II, in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, Japanese prisoners of war were held in an internment camp. By August 1944 over a thousand were interned and on the icy night of August 5th they staged the largest prison breakout in history, launching the only battle of World War II t ...Show more
Little Book of the Concise History of Wwii by Mccan Liam
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
A brief history of the Second World War
Great South Land by Rob Mundle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
How Dutch sailors discovered New Holland and left Australia to a British pirate. For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance with the immensity of ...Show more
Mischka's War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
On a winter's day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods-a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities, which makes Mischka?s decision to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS by going ...Show more
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitu ...Show more