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“peter grose”

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  • 1942: the year the war came to Australia

    The bombing of Darwin and the attack on Sydney by the Japanese

    by Peter Grose ...
    The story of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese midget sub attack on Sydney Harbour in one volume from the bestselling author of An Awkward Truth and A Very Rude Awakening.'Grose's compassionate, honest and vivid account deserves to be widely read.' Sun Herald on An Awkward Truth'About as good as any yarn can get . . . a great retelling of a great story.' Sydney Morning Herald on A Very Rude ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Awkward Truth: The bombing of Darwin, February 1942

    The bombing of Darwin, February 1942

    by Peter Grose ...
    The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942. Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet the Japanese attack on 19 February 1942 was the first wartime assault on Australian soil. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that devastated Pearl Harbor only ten ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • A Good Place to Hide

    by Peter Grose ...
    Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed.This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Very Rude Awakening

    The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour

    by Peter Grose ...
    In May of 1942, the war seemed very far away to most Sydneysiders - until the night the three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour and caused an unforgettable night of mayhem, high farce, chaos and courage. A ground-breaking new look at one of the most extraordinary stories of Australia at war.On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Bad Characters

    by Peter Stanley ...
    Australians have celebrated the Anzacs for nearly a century--but what do we really know of what war did to them? Charles Bean, historian of the citizen soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force, wrote that its history spanned 'the good and the bad'--but so far Australians have only looked at the good.Leading war historian Peter Stanley reveals the citizen soldiers the army regarded as its 'bad ... Read more

    $11.19 USD

  • Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    The must-read story of the boy from Brisbane who became a wartime hero and aviation trailblazer.In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he won the Military Cross for gallantry - before becoming the greatest peacetime aviator of his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Man Who Invented Christmas

    How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

    by Les Standiford ...
    As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world—now a major motion picture.Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Cops, Drugs, Lawyer X and Me

    by Paul Dale, Vikki Petraitis ...
    'How did a kid from the country who dreamed of joining the Victoria Police, end up on the wrong side of the bars? There are a lot of reasons, and I hope this story will help clarify some of them, not only for you, the reader, but for me too, because a lot of the time I am left shaking my head, wondering how things went so wrong.'Paul Dale knows he is tainted. After almost fifteen years as a cop, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Drugs, Guns & Lies

    My life as an undercover cop

    by Keith Banks, Ben Smith ...
    A story from the inside when Queensland had the most corrupt police force in the country. This is what it's really like to be an undercover police officer.'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' - John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The AgeUndercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had ... Read more

    $9.79 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

  • The Good Cop

    by Justine Ford ...
    **As seen on Foxtel's Logie winning The Good Cop and Channel 7's Homicide with Ron Iddles'A - Assume nothing. B - Believe nothing. C - Check everything.' Ron Iddles**In an incredible twenty-five year career as a homicide detective, Ron Iddles' conviction rate was 99%. Yet that only partly explains why Iddles is known to cops and crims alike as 'The Great Man'.Tough, inventive and incorruptible, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Pozieres

    the Anzac story

    by Scott Bennett ...
    In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozières. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task.At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands of Australians stormed Pozières. Forty-five days later they were relieved, having suffered 23,000 casualties ... Read more

    $26.29 USD