Crawl to Freedom: Australian POW Escapes of World War One by Darren Prickett
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
During World War One over 4000 Australian servicemen were taken prisoner. Yet the prisoner of war experiences of the Anzacs are frequently forgotten, treated as mere footnotes in the proliferation of the literature of Australian military history. Where individual stories have been told they are often fr ...Show more
Lest: Australian War Myths by Mark Dapin
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
From Simpson's donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn't happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight.Australia's war tales could be said to be the cl ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
29.99 AUD
Category: General
‘Majestic, ambitious’ Literary Review ____________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity and sophistication, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and w ...Show more
When We Was Fab: Inside the Beatles Australasian Tour 1964 by Greg Armstrong, Andy Neill
69.99 AUD
Category: History
June 2024 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Beatles historic – and hysterical – visit to Australasia. When We Was Fab: Inside The Beatles Australasian Tour 1964 is the definitive and highly illustrated account of this extraordinary tour. June 2024 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Beatles histo ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Pirates by Howe, Katherine (ed)
32.99 AUD
Category: General
Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
34.99 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--throu ...Show more
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman by Barbara Minchinton, Philip Bentley
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the woman behind the alter ego. Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Caroline arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Le ...Show more
Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia by Sarah Gilbert
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The lives of the women who joined a closed convent in Melbourne in a time of great upheaval In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who the ...Show more
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
34.99 AUD
Category: General
From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the exploration of the Arctic, the tragic story of HMS Terror and tales of bravery a ...Show more
The Irish: Tales of Emigration, Exile and Imperialism by Turtle Bunbury
29.99 AUD
Category: General
Explore the lives of over forty men and women - great and otherwise - whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history.The Irish have always been a travelling people. Since 1800 an estimated 10 million people have left the Irish shores, and today more than 80 mill ...Show more