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Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia's Top End
$120.00 AUD
Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia's Top End presents the work of contemporary Australian textile artists working at five Aboriginal-owned art centers in the Northern Territory: Tiwi Design, Jilamara Arts and...
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 First Anzacs: The incredible untold stories of Aussie and Kiwi
They were airbrushed out of history. Official historian Charles Bean claimed the first Australian ashore at the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1915 was an infantry officer. But Bean wasn't...
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...
Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in
The final book in Elizabeth Tynan's landmark trilogy on the history of British nuclear testing in Australia. Nuclear Archipelago tells the shocking story of the two British atomic weapons test...
Musquito: The real story of a legendary colonial warrior
A vivid, compelling portrait of the intertwined lives of Aboriginal people and new arrivals in the fledgling colonies. Musquito was just a boy when a convoy of eleven British ships...
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...
Badiou and His Interlocutors: Lectures, Interviews and Responses
This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre...
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.
The Road to Botany Bay: An Essay in Spatial History
The book titled The Road to Botany Bay: An Essay in Spatial History by the author Paul Carter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
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...
A Short History of Papua New Guinea
This concise text describes the swift and steady growth of the many small, isolated and self-sufficient societies that made up the fledgeling British Papua and German New Guinea colonies towards...
Papua New Guinea: People Politics and History since 1975
The book titled Papua New Guinea: People Politics and History since 1975 by the author Sean Dorney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
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...
A History of Canberra
Designed as an 'ideal city' and emblem of the nation, Canberra has long been a source of ambivalence for many Australians. In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown challenges...
Myths and Legends of the Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean in the world, covering nearly one-third of the earth's surface and containing more than half of its seawater. The Pacific Ocean...
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...
The Hitler Club: The True Story of Australia's No. 1 Nazi
Before the Second World War, a photograph was taken by the side of a road in a quiet little valley in South Australia. The photograph depicted eight men standing around...
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...
No Country for Idealists: The Making of a Family of Subversives
This book is a dramatic account of the making of a family of 'subversives' in Australia and the USSR during the Cold War. It also captures the texture of everyday...
Australia's First Rotary Club: A History of the Rotary Club of
The Rotary Club of Melbourne was the first Rotary Club in Australia. Since its inaugural luncheon on 21 April 1921, the club has had an outstanding record of philanthropic endeavour...
At Dawn We Slept: Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
$12.00 AUD
The book titled At Dawn We Slept: Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by the author Gordon W. Prange. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Millington's Mission
On April 25th, 1915, Australian troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and thousands died as they landed at the incorrect position and faced steep cliffs and barrages of enemy fire....
The Moon Seems Upside Down: Letters of love and war
The war letters of Arthur Alan Mitchell 1939-45. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Alan Mitchell was a foreman at McPherson's bolt factory in Richmond. Eileen Griffin was...
A Better Legend: From the World War II Letters of Jack and Jane
$20.00 AUD
In the spring of 1987, a few weeks after her husband's death, Jane Weaver Poulton was rummaging through the sea chest Jack made on Tulagi Island and found a mass...
Engineer to Marvellous Melbourne: The Life and Times of William
William Thwaites engineered the Melbourne sewerage system with meticulous and untiring attention. He overcame technical challenges with such efficiency and foresight that the scheme served Melburnians unchanged for the next...
Gough Whitlam: The Definitive Biography
The definitive biography of Australia's twenty-first prime minister, Gough Whitlam, who swept to power in 1972, ending twenty-three years of conservative rule. His reform agenda modernised Australia and was ended...