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Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...
The Howard Factor: A Decade That Transformed a Nation
The Hon. John Howard MP, Prime Minister of Australia launched The Howard Factor on 2nd March at Parliament House in Canberra. John Howard's federal election victory over Paul Keating in...
First Victory: The Hunt for the German Raider Emden
HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider, Emden. HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider, Emden. When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into...
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
A unique, seminal work about co-opted beliefs when European missionaries encountered Australian Aboriginals. The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was...
Healing Our History 3rd Edition
A powerful and humane book, Healing Our History eschews rhetoric and cuts to the true story of race relations in New Zealand. A powerful and humane book, Healing Our History...
A Carefree War: The Hidden History of Australian WWII Child Evacuees
During World War II Australia was under threat of invasion. Could Australia be invaded by the Japanese? Even with the heavy censorship by the government many certainly thought so. Stunned...
Remember When...: Snapshots of Australia from the '50s to the 90s
Take a trip down memory lane with Bob Byrne ... Remember loading up the back of the car and heading away with the family over the summer holidays? Being part...
Yarra: The History of Melbourne's Murky River
It was John Wedge, Batman's private surveyor, who named the Yarra Yarra. In September 1835 he was at the Turning Basin with some Kulin and heard them identify the river...
Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories
'Us firefighters do more than fight fires. We also assist those who have just gone through what's probably the worst experience of their lives.' The devastating 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires...
Manning Clark's History of Australia
$20.00 AUD
The book titled Manning Clark's History of Australia by the author Manning Clark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Gona'S Gone!
This work suggests that, for Australia, the Pacific War was the beginning of a new interpretation of the Southeast Asian region and Australia's position in it. The three battles fought...
You're Leaving Tomorrow
The Vietnam conflict was an event that bitterly divided Australian society. While many people supported the government's military response to the perceived threat posed by expasionist communism, many others violently...
An Irresistible Temptation: The True Story of Jane New and a Colonial
Carol Baxter has written a work that captures the reader This is largely because of her skill as a narrative historian, her capacity to tell a good story.' - Gregory...
Lost Anzacs
This book is intended for students of military history and of Commonwealth history.
To the Last Ridge
The re-release of the World War I memoirs of a Melbourne law student. First published in 1920, it was reissued by Duffy and Snellgrove in 1998 and sold mainly through...
Zombie Myths of Australian Military History
Over the years many books on Australian military history have given rise to a host of such 'zombie' myths - myths that refuse to die. A great many have a...
Clive Caldwell, Air Ace
'His courage, determination, skill and his undoubtedly outstanding ability as a leader are an inspiration to his wing and worthy of the highest praise.' Extract from Distinguished Service Order citation...
Gallipoli: The Final Battles and Evacuation of ANZAC
In early August with the failure of the August Offensive at Gallipoli the senior commanders still believed that victory was possible. To help prepare for a new offensive sometime in...
Honor by Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific
The book titled Honor by Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific by the author Lyn Crost. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's
January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the defenders of this Southwest Pacific island, soon to be the war's darkest...
A Land Half Won
The book titled A Land Half Won by the author Geoffrey Blainey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Australia Street: A boy's-eye view of the 1920s and 1930s
The book titled Australia Street: A boy's-eye view of the 1920s and 1930s by the author John Kingsmill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Commandos: Heroic and Deadly ANZAC Raids in World War II
Australian and New Zealand special forces are renowned for their bravery, their skill and their sense of duty - so much so that World War II Allied commanders turned to...
History of Australia in 100 Objects
The History of Australia in 100 Objects is a fresh, accessible take on Australian history. It explores both well- and little-known stories through the objects of the time and the...
First Australians: An Illustrated History
$50.00 AUD
First Australians is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the...
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the
$17.50 AUD
Dive into this New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. "Truly...
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in
'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me...
Helena Rubinstein: The Australian Years
The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behind 'Because of Trumble's surgical precision, his empathy...
Stamp of Australia Pbk C the Story of Our Post--from Second Fleet to
$12.00 AUD
The story of Australia's postal services now two hundred years old is the story of Australia itself. At first, a small huddle of colonists awaited letters from England, which most...
Barney and the Secret of the French Spies (The Secret History Series,
The new title in the critically acclaimed series that explores Australia's early Colonial secret history In1798 orphaned Barney Bean now has a flourishing farm in the New SouthWales colony and...
Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age
Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...
Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age
Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...
The Shame of Savo
$70.00 AUD
This is a controversial look at the events surrounding the Allied disaster of the battles of Savo Island and Guadalcanal, and the sinking of the "Canberra". Bruce Loxton (who served...
This Accursed Land
The book titled This Accursed Land by the author Leonard Bickel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
He Was My Father
Harry was 13 when his father died. He has reconstructed his father's life, and where information was spare, has carefully researched how such people lived. Discovering harsh the life of...
We of the Never-Never and the Little Black Princess.
The book titled We of the Never-Never and the Little Black Princess. by the author Aeneas Gunn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
German Anzacs and the First World War
By 1914 Australia's German immigrants were well-regarded in their communities and made up (after Irish and Scots) the fourth-largest white ethnic community in Australia. This thoroughly readable history, with lively...
Neighbours: Australia and the Pacific
A new vision for Australia's relationship with the Pacific Australia has a long history in the Pacific. Many Australians might have forgotten it, but the region has not forgotten us....
Ellen Savage and the Heroes of AHS Centaur: from the bestselling
The extraordinary true story of courage under fire and survival during one of the deadliest wartime attacks on Australia - the sinking of the hospital ship, the Centaur - and...
The Wanted and the Unwanted
When the Wet comes to Wyndham, bones wash down with the loose shale of the surrounding Bastion ranges. Year round, lost spirits wander this tiny port town on the northern...
About Face
The book titled About Face by the author David H. Hackworth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Voices from the West End: The people and events that shaped Fremantle
$40.00 AUD
On a triangle of land that points out to sea at the mouth of the Swan River is Fremantle's heritage district, the West End, renowned for its colonial architecture. Although...
Nature'S Plenty: A History of the City of Whittlesea
The book titled Nature'S Plenty: A History of the City of Whittlesea by the author Mike Jones. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...