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Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia's First Colony 1788-1884
Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on...
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...
Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia
Loving Country is a powerful and essential guidebook that offers a new way to travel and discover Australia through an Indigenous narrative. In this beautifully designed and photographed edition, co-authors...
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...
Battle Surface
$60.00 AUD
This is an account of Japan's submarine war against Australia during 1942-44. It is a story of a campaign which was far more serious and extensive than anyone in Australia...
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...
The Battle of the Generals: MacArthur, Blamey and the defence of
'Roland Perry shows the true picture . . . enjoyable, clearly argued, comprehensive, and highly readable.' - Michael McKernan, Australian Book Review 11 March 1942: The Japanese have stormed the...
Challenging Anzac: Stories That Don't Fit the Legend
The Anzac legend has shaped Australia's national identity for more than a century. Yet many experiences of war do not fit comfortably within this. In Challenging Anzac , leading historians...
Raven Mother: War, Family and Inheritance: a Memoir
In a powerful work of memoir, history and biography, Jane Messer retraces the tragic and hopeful steps of her Jewish German grandmother, Bella. From pre-war Berlin to Tel Aviv to...
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...
The House of Blue Glass
Acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson - author of the award-winning Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm - pieces together the life of Penelope Lucas and the pivotal role she...
QBD Long Road to Changi
$12.00 AUD
The book titled QBD Long Road to Changi by the author Peter Ewer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own...
Memory, Monuments And Museums
This collection by Australia's leading writers, scholars and activists discuss the ways in which we record, preserve and sometimes re-create our histories and how the power of memory and the...
The Forgotten Fifties: Aspects of Australian Society and Culture in
Some of Australia's leading historians present new perspectives on social and cultural life in the 1950s. The 1950s is usually treated in the popular media as a metaphor for an...
Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U. S.
Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British...
The Australian Wars: The truth about the bloody battles fought to
It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...
Cargo of Women: the History
The book titled Cargo of Women: the History by the author Babette Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Menzies Legacy: Ideals, Change, Procession, 1960s and Beyond
Was Robert Menzies out of step with the swinging 1960s, or did he shape the profound changes that it wrought? Menzies led Australia for over half the decade, finally retiring...
With Dew on My Boots
The book titled With Dew on My Boots by the author Colin Thiele. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Australian Code Breakers: Our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T....
The Shadow's Edge: Australia's Northern War
This book is about a war zone and the people in it. The war was World War II; the zone Australias Northern Territory (7th Military District) with extensions into western...
Wings and the Navy: 1947-1953
ALS Colin Jones, a historian brings us a history of the Royal Australian Navy in the years following World War II (1947-1953). This was a period that saw a number...
Eureka PLC (BD)
The book titled Eureka PLC (BD) by the author Peter FitzSimons. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Australia's China: Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s
Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the...
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
In the First World War, Australian reactions to death were defined by distance, a circumstance that impelled mourners towards communal responses to their loss. It drove them to create and...