View from the Wings: 60 Years in British Aviation by Colin Cruddas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A View From The Wings
Let the Land Speak: How the Land Shaped Our Nation by Jackie French
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
To understand the present, you need to understand the past. To understand Australia's history, you need to look at how the land has shaped not just our past, but will continue to shape our future. From highly respected, award-winning author Jackie French comes a new and fascinating interpretation of Aus ...Show more
Broken Nation by Joan Beaumont
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Great War was, for the majority of Australians, one that was fought at home. As casualties of this monstrous war mounted, they triggered a political crisis of unprecedented ferocity in Australian history. Faultlines emerged in the ensuing years that would forever change the political landscape, rend ...Show more
Illustrated History of Australia 2013 by Five Mile Press The
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This vivid book traces the history of the island continent from the age of the dinosaurs through to the coming of the Aboriginal people and their unique culture, to the fateful impact of the first Europeans.
Australian History in Seven Questions by John Hirst
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's past and present. Hirst asks and answers questions that get to the heart of Australia's history: Why did Aborigines not take up farming? How did a pen ...Show more
The Bush - Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: good-very good
Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or should be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke ...Show more
The Spy Catchers: The Official History of Asio, 1949--1963 by David Horner
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian HistoryFor the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of I ...Show more
Deep South: Stories from Tasmania by Ralph Crane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A wonderful collection of twenty-four short stories that celebrate the history, culture and creativity of Tasmania. Tasmania is another country-a lush, sometimes foreboding island with a people fiercely protective of its history, culture and creativity. This handsome collection, the first to bring toget ...Show more
From the Trenches: The Best ANZAC Writing of World War I by Mark Dapin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the centenary of World War One, here are the Anzacs in their own words. From the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying accounts of life at the front, recorded by those who lived through the fighting. Drawn from diaries, memoirs and letters, as well as poetry, ...Show more
The Anzacs by Patsy Adam-Smith
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'If you have not read The Anzacs there will always be a part of Australia you will never understand.' Les Carlyon, The Australian Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was not time for escape or burial. And when Gallipoli was over there was ...Show more
Warrior A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier by Libby Connors
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our warriors were Anzacs. Not all our wars were just.' - John Birmingham, author and columnist In the 1840s, white settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, and a series of deadly ...Show more
Taking to the Skies Daredevils, Heroes and Hijackings, Great Australian Flying Stories by Jim Eames
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Great yarns of Australian aviation from a man who lives and breathes flying.