Gallipoli by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its hist ...Show more
The Bridge: The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'... in world terms, that great arch defined Sydney and for the most part, Australia ...' - Hon. Paul Keating, former Prime Minister of AustraliaWhen it was finally opened in March 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge had taken almost nine years to complete at a cost of sixteen lives and more than six millio ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--thro ...Show more
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Voyages by Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Anyone who loves history, science, art, or classic tales of adventure will be enthralled by the journeys of Captain James Cook and his intrepid crews. Three epic voyages took them to South America, the Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Australia, Alaska, Siberia, the East Indies, and across the vast Indian O ...Show more
John Curtin's War Volume II - Triumph and Decline by John Edwards
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The first volume of John Curtin?s War was recognized as 'a landmark in Australian political biography? (The Australian) and 'remarkable? (AFR). That book ends with the fall of Singapore and a fundamental realignment of Australia?s place in the world- 'The Americans were coming. So were the Japanese.? Th ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land : An Aboriginal History by Murray Johnson; Ian McFarlane
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle against almost insurmountable odds is one worthy of respect and admiration, not to mention serious attention. This broad-rangin ...Show more
Gularabulu by Paddy Roe; Stephen Muecke (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
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Scorched Earth: Australia's Secret Plan for Total War Under Japanese Invasion in World War II by Sue Rosen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: General Adult
In 1942 the threat of Japanese invasion hung over Australia. The men were away overseas, fighting on other fronts, and civilians were left unprotected at home. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese advance south, Prime Minister Curtin ordered state governments to prepare. From January 19 ...Show more
The Power of Humanity : 100 Years of Australian Red Cross 1914-2014 by Melanie Oppenheimer
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Written by leading historian Melanie Oppenheimer, and fully illustrated with a wealth of photographs and other records from the archives of the Australian Red Cross Society, this riveting history marks 100 years of the Red Cross in Australia. This is the story of everyday Australians. It is a history of ...Show more
Adelaide Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Remember childhood visits to the Adelaide Zoo with a ride in the elephant cart? School lunches and a glass bottle of sun-warmed milk? spending Saturday night at Downtown or Tilt to play arcade games or go rollerskating? rides at Magic Mountain or Dazzleland, dances at local clubs with local bands, early ...Show more
The Anzacs: From Gallipoli to the Western Front by Peter Pedersen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This important book traces the evolution of the Australian Imperial Force from the enthusiastic amateurs of Gallipoli to the skilled warriors of the Western Front, where fighting in conditions of unspeakable horror and brutality they won their legendary reputation as "the best infantrymen of the war and ...Show more
Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore by Harvey Broadbent
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This book by Harvey Broadbent, a leading authority on the Gallipoli campaign and producer of the acclaimed ABC documentary Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore, seeks to convey the story of Gallipoli to Australians of all ages. On 25 April, 1915, Allied troops stormed the cliffs of Gallipoli. Twenty-eight thousan ...Show more