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  • 1942

    Australia's Greatest Peril

    by Bob Wurth ...
    1942 was the year of Australia's greatest peril - as Darwin was destroyed by bombing, Australian ships were torpedoed within sight of our coast, midget Japanese submarines attacked shipping in Sydney Harbour, and the Japanese army invaded New Guinea on its inexorable march south. This is the real story of the genuine and imminent threat to Australia in that fateful year.On the beautiful Inland Sea ... Read more

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  • The Great Race

    The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

    by David Hill ...
    On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the west and east coasts, four thousand kilometres apart, were part of the same island.And so began ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You

    by John Hamilton ...
    On August 7th 1915, men of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade staged one of the most tragic, brave and futile charges of the First World War. Seeking to break out of the Anzac position at Gallipoli they attempted to storm an extraordinarily strong Turkish position, defended by artillery, machineguns and thousands of men, using nothing but fixed bayonets and raw courage. The first wave of Light Horsemen ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Castaway!

    by Robert Carter ...
    The story of a stranding alone, on an island off the coast of New Zealand, of an English Clergyman. His survival, despair, and joy at rescue. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Mutiny on the Bounty

    Texts by Captain Bligh, Sir John Farrow, and Rosalind Amelia Young

    by Captain William Bligh, Sir John Farrow, Rosalind Amelia Young ...
    The Mutiny of the Bounty is one of the most famous stories in maritime history that has been told in countless books and motion pictures. It describes the arduous voyage of the H.M.S. Bounty, under the harsh rule of the strict Captain Bligh, and the eventual mutiny of much of the crew led by the Mutineer Fletcher Christian. Less well-known is the incredible survival story of how Captain Bligh and ... Read more

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  • Evolution of a Family

    by Helen M Neville ...
    The writing of "Evolution of a Family" has been a four year project which was primarily started as a method to uncover my family secrets, but ended up as a tribute to an extraordinary, resilent family. Along the way I found it advantageous to include the social and political demographics that existed in 19th Century Ireland, and also the same demographics in Australia from the 1850's to the ... Read more

    $3.56 USD

  • Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow

    by Galarrwuy Yunupingu ...
    Series Book 12 - Short Blacks
    'I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women ... The flame will burn and intensify – an immense smoke, cloud-like and black, will arise, which will send off a signal and remind people that we, the Gumatj people, are the people of the fire. There are people of the fire around Alice Springs – and I reach out to them, too. We can then burn united, together.'Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow is ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Kokoda Trail for Dummies

    by Peter Williams ...
    Everything you need to know about the Kokoda Trail and its place in Australian historyInterest in the Kokoda Trail is growing rapidly among many Australians, both for its attraction as a hiking destination and for its historical significance. Kokoda For Dummies offers a fast track tool for learning everything you need to know about this unique thoroughfare, in one concise volume. Part history book ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • True Stories of Early Australia

    by Richard G Tomkies ...
    This new book "True Stories of Early Australia" is the result of a great deal of research and is complete with old photographs both black and white and color. The author has endeavored to record some fascinating stories of an earlier era many of which have been obscured over time from the general reading public. The stories cover the period from the late 19th Century to the mid-20th. Read the tale ... Read more

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  • Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia during the years 1837 to 1839, volume 1 of 2

    by George Grey ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New ... Read more

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  • Bizarre Takings Cases in the United States and Australia

    by Silas Flint ...
    A dispute about who owns garbage? A court case over who gets to operate San Quentin Prison? A fight regarding use of a church pew? Bizarre as these examples sound, each was a real court case in either the United States or Australia, in which the government took private property. In clear, simple language this volume presents some of the quirkier "takings" cases in the history of the law, which ... Read more

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  • The Fair Dinkums

    by Glenn McFarlane ...
    "A chronicle of sad loss." Sydney Morning Herald"eloquent... heartbreaking... a sterling tribute. The stuff of legends." Nick Richardson, Herald SunFAIR DINKUM (def.): honesty, guts, directness, fortitude, courage, truth.You had to be fair dinkum to enlist after the hell of Gallipoli hit home. A new breed of warrior and patriot stepped up as Anzac's second wave. Among them were 152 men of the 7th ... Read more

    $11.59 USD