Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
Snowy River Story by Claire Miller
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
This stirring David and Goliath story tells of the townspeople of Dalgety on the Snowy River, whose grassroots campaign took on the massive power of the Snowy Hydro in an attempt to save their homes, communities and the Snowy River itself from a slow death.
Outback Heroes - Australia's Greatest Bush Stories by Evan McHugh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: near fine
History of 1 Field Squadron Group, Royal Australian Engineers, Svn, 1965-1972 by Brian Florence
$64.99 AUD
Category: History
Past Vietnam War histories have tended to record the sappers' work as peripheral. This book attempts to highlight the skill, ingenuity, and courage they displayed throughout the entire war. It chronicles their experiences-both good and bad-that are based around their operations, with an emphasis on the ...Show more
Australian Voices by Ariana Klepac
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
Australian Voices presents a broad social history of colonial, predominantly European, Australian life, focusing on the ordinary and the everyday, through the words of Australians of the time and a handful of visitors. This atmospheric anthology comprises letters and diary entries, memoirs and reminisce ...Show more
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack - SIGNED by Brenda Niall
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
The Race for the South Pole : In Their Own Words by Roland Huntford
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In 1910, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. 2010, marks the centenary of the l ...Show more
The First Wave - The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw
$29.99 AUD
$49.99 (40% off)
Category: War
The New York Timesbestselling author of The Liberatorand Avenue of Spiesreturns with a thrilling, action-heavy account of D-Day combat.Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wavefollows ten men attempting to carry out D-Day's most critical missions. Their actions would determine th ...Show more
Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' -David Marr With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent ...Show more