I Am Bound to be True: The Life and Legacy of Arthur A Calwell by Mary Elizabeth Calwell
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Arthur Augustus Calwell (1896-1973) played a dominant role in Australia's development into a free, confident and independent nation in the twentieth century. This new biography tells the story of his life, career and achievements and argues that this knowledge is essential for understanding our Australi ...Show more
Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two ...Show more
Gallipoli: The Landing by Hugh Dolan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The truth about the assault on Gallipoli is finally being told - panel by panel. Gallipoli: The Landing takes the events of 25 April 1915 and presents them in a full-colour comic that's action-packed but historically accurate. Rather than a botched attack planned by indifferent British generals, the Gal ...Show more
Anzac Mascots: All Creatures Great and Small of World War I by Nigel Allsopp
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
‘The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.’ – Mahatma Gandhi Animals have the power to change people’s lives. They can be loving, loyal companions that will never judge. In World War I, many Australian and New Zealand units – army, naval and air ...Show more
The Bulldog Track - A Grandson's Story of an Ordinary Man's War and Survival on the Other Kokoda Trail by Peter Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: War | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival. March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found ...Show more
Sons of War: Astonishing Stories of Under-Age Australian Soldiers Who Fought in the Second World War by Paul Byrnes
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
"In the Second World War, thousands of Australian boys lied about their age and volunteered for a war the scale of which they could never have imagined. Like many of their fathers in the Great War, they went with their eyes wide shut: under-trained, under-equipped and under-age. Some were as young as th ...Show more
Bill the Bastard: The story of Australia's greatest war horse by Roland Perry
$27.99 AUD
Category: War
An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine.
Murder by the Prosecution by Andrew L. Urban
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A disturbing expose of wrongful murder convictions: Sue Neill- Fraser, Henry Keogh, David Szach and Gordon Wood. Exposing the grave mistakes in Australia's not-so-trustworthy criminal justice system, film critic turned activist journalist Andrew L. Urban recounts how his life is changed when he is drawn ...Show more
The Great Barrier Reef (Souvenir Book) S Parish by PARISH STEVE SLATER PAT
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Souvenir Books Ser. | Reading Level: Adult
Brimming with bright and colourful photographs that capture the essence of The Great Barrier Reef, this quality reproduction explores local towns and their surrounds, beaches, islands and some of the most beautiful underwater marine life in the world.
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority 1788–1853 by Babette Smith
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of outrage at their vulgarity, their depravity and their promiscuity. Babette Smith takes the reader beyond this traditional casting of convict women, looking for evidence of th ...Show more
1942: the year the war came to Australia: The bombing of Darwin and the attack on Sydney by the Japanese by Peter Grose
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
The story of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese midget sub attack on Sydney Harbour in one volume from the bestselling author of An Awkward Truth and A Very Rude Awakening. 'Grose's compassionate, honest and vivid account deserves to be widely read.' Sun Herald on An Awkward Truth 'About as good as ...Show more