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  • Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War

    by Garth Pratten ...
    Series series Australian Army History Series
    In Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, Garth Pratten explores, for the first time, the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry battalions in World War II. Despite their vital role as the lynchpins of the battlefield, uniting the senior officers with the soldiers who fought, the battalion commanders have previously received scant attention ... Read more

    $56.59 USD

  • The Limits of Peacekeeping: Volume 4, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations

    Australian Missions in Africa and the Americas, 1992–2005

    Edited by Jean Bou, Bob Breen, David Horner, Garth Pratten, Miesje de Vogel ...
    The Limits of Peacekeeping highlights the Australian government's peacekeeping efforts in Africa and the Americas from 1992 to 2005. Changing world power structures and increased international cooperation saw a boom in Australia's peacekeeping operations between 1991 and 1995. The initial optimism of this period proved to be misplaced, as the limits of the United Nations and the international ... Read more

    $139.39 USD

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    The Lost Chapters of Australia's Beginnings

    by Nick Brodie ...
    For over 200 years Australia’s official history has focused on English colonisation and ‘discovery’, with tales of British explorers and first generation white Australians navigating the vast and unfriendly land. But what of the millennia before the English claimed Australia as their own and wrote the history books. 1787 traces the journey of Australia before the infamous 1788 date, to explore ... Read more

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  • The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk

    by David Grant ...
    A major biography of arguably New Zealand's greatest modern political leader As Norman Kirk’s body lay in state near the steps of Parliament on the day after his death on 31 August 1974, a kaumatua wailed ‘the mighty totara has fallen’. The lament reflected what many New Zealanders felt about this big, commanding and loved leader, dead at just 51. More than 30,000 people filed past Kirk's casket ... Read more

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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 Art of Time Travel

    Historians and Their Craft

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us.Winner of the Ernest Scott Prize and shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction'A rare feat of imagination and generosity.'– Mark McKennaWith every sentence they write, historians must walk the tightrope between discipline and imagination, empathy and ... Read more

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  • The Paradise Conspiracy

    by Ian Wishart ...
    From the shady cover of a tropical tax haven, they hatched a billion dollar plan to raid the treasuries of the world, robbing the poor to give to the rich...A death, missing computer disks, a winebox full of secret files, a tax haven, alleged extortion, arms dealing, corruption, cover-ups and criminal fraud, billion dollar deals, kidnap attempts, espionage, secret military operations, death ... Read more

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  • Replenishing the Earth:The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld

    The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld

    by James Belich ...
    Why does so much of the world speak English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.Between 1780 and 1930 the ... Read more

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  • Broken Circles

    by Anna Haebich ...
    This major work reveals the dark heart of the history of the Stolen Generations in Australia. It shows that, from the earliest times of European colonization, Aboriginal Australians experienced the trauma of loss and separation, as their children were abducted, enslaved, institutionalized, and culturally remodeled. Providing a moving and comprehensive account of this tragic history, this study ... Read more

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    The untold story of Australia's Holden

    by John Wright ...
    The FJ Holden. It's an unmistakable, much loved and unique symbol of Australia - right up there with the pavlova, Don Bradman's baggy green, or Christmas on the beach.But how did it get this way? Exactly how did an American car company so accurately grasp Australia's automotive pulse to create a car which is now an Australian motoring icon?Right from the beginning, Holden understood the importance ... Read more

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  • Letters from the Front

    by Dorothy Gilding ...
    “There were dead men everywhere, and a good number of our cavalry. We passed Fritz artillery with dead horses attached to their limbers. I come across a wounded Fritz. He was just a young boy and our tanks had run over him. A crew of five had a gun mounted in a shell-hole and the tank had flattened it into the ground, killing the rest. He had both his legs broken and had a very pitiful look. I ... Read more

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  • Beyond Betrayal

    by Keith Newman ...
    Beyond Betrayal delves into New Zealand's pioneering history, and asks why such promising partnerships descended into decades of distrust. After the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, a succession of governors resisted missionary advice, despite their local knowledge and peacemaking skills, and influenced a raft of misunderstandings that provoked violent outbreaks across the country. The rise of Maori ... Read more

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