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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...
People Power: How Australian Referendums Are Lost and Won
WHY HAS SUCCESS BEEN SO RARE IN AUSTRALIAN REFERENDUMS? From the failed attempt to ban communism in 1951 to the unsuccessful Voice referendum in 2023, Australians have been cautious about...
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...
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to shit-shoveller-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and demise of Australia's...
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...
Qantas by George!
The book titled Qantas by George! by the author Paul Byrnes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
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
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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...
Through Fear and Fire: The explosive true story of a bomb squad
The thrilling memoir of Special Operations Group bomb squad veteran John Taylor. The Special Operations Group are Australia's most elite policing unit. They are who we turn to in times...
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...
The Secret Discovery of Australia: Portuguese Ventures 250 Years
The book titled The Secret Discovery of Australia: Portuguese Ventures 250 Years by the author Kenneth Gordon McIntyre. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
A Better Legend: From the World War II Letters of Jack and Jane
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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...
Norm - Bomber Command: The Story of Francis Norman Crouch, the first
The touching, true story of the first Australian RAAF airman to fly a Lancaster Bomber in World War II. As a fifteen-year-old boy growing up in Sydney, Francis Norman 'Norm'...
Typhoon Pilot
This is not only the story of one man's war, but of an aircraft - the Typhoon, or "Tiffy" as it was affectionately known - which the author describes as...
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...
The Penguin/Cae 10 Week Course in Tracing the History of Your House
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The book titled The Penguin/Cae 10 Week Course in Tracing the History of Your House by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Last Woman Hanged
Two husbands, four trials and one bloody execution: Winner of the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Crime Book (Non-fiction) -- the terrible true story of Louisa Collins. In January 1889,...
Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats
The story of the people, the events and the ideas that shaped Australian foreign policy and gave Australia its identity in the eyes of the rest of the world. In...
A Fortunate Life: Penguin Australian Classics,
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Born in 1894, Albert Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with...
Te Motunui Epa
'This is a story about the power of art to help us find a way through the darkness. It is about how art can bring out the best in us,...
Timor 1942: Australian Commandos at War with the Japanese
The book titled Timor 1942: Australian Commandos at War with the Japanese by the author Christopher C.H. Wray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
It's Wales: Welsh Australians Their History and Achievements
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The Welsh people have been part of Australian society since white settlements began two centuries ago, and today, those of Welsh descent, such as and Kylie Minogue, have achieved worldwide...
The Man on the Twenty Dollar Notes: Flynn of the Inland
The Royal Flying Doctor Service is a revered legend of the development of Australia as a caring nation. However, few Australians are aware of the man who founded it-John Flynn-usually...
Air War Pacific
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The book titled Air War Pacific by the author Christopher Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Facing North
Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia is the first book to assess the whole history of Australia's relations with Asia since Federation. This first volume presents a...
Belonging
Belonging is a First Nations poetic reflection on Country and the everlasting ties that bind us. A lyrical narrative full of the eternal interconnectedness of our families: land, water, sky,...
Long Journey Home: The perilous escapes of Anzac POWs from fascists in
After her father's death, Katrina Kittel opens his old Globite suitcase and finds tiny photos, postcards in beautiful handwriting from a mysterious Swiss woman, and memorabilia from his war. Katrina...
Alice (TM): The Biggest Untold Story in the History of Money
From Wall Street to the supreme court, how the world's largest banks control the money markets and crush competition In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money...
A Town is Born: The Fitzroy Crossing Story
The 1960s are remembered as a time of change and upheaval throughout the Western world, including Australia. No part of the country changed more in that decade than the remote...
Seafaring: Canoeing Ancient Songlines
'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle's do not...
Krithia: The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli
The Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War...
Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place
What does it mean to be on land taken from others? 'What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how...
The First Inventors: How people shaped a continent
This is what a history of Australia looks like when it has Indigenous perspectives at its heart. For over 65,000 years, people have made this continent their own through language,...
That's Not My Child: Five Generations on the Welfare Treadmill
There is more to Frances Sinnett's secret pain than the loss of her children - including the author - to an orphanage. Battalions of sorrows begin when her grandfather at...
Lighthouse Girl: An illustrated anniversary edition of a classic
Based on the true story of Fay Howe, this gentle, illustrated tale brings to life the hardships of those left at home during WWI - those waiting, wondering and hoping....
Where's All the Community?: Aboriginal Melbourne Revisited
A groundbreaking account of the people and places that have shaped Aboriginal Melbourne In Where's All the Community? Aboriginal Melbourne Revisited, Julie Andrews paints a vivid portrait of the Aboriginal...
The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European
The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. It has since become a...
Always a Lady: Courageous Women of Colonial Australia
The book titled Always a Lady: Courageous Women of Colonial Australia by the author Nance Donkin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Shameful Autobiographies: Shame in Contemporary Australian
This innovative work is about patterns of shame in a range of important Australian autobiographies published between 1960 and 1995. Writing autobiography is a risky business. What is shameful can...
Pacific Empires
A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J. C. Beaglehole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955....
Markets, Money and Empire: Political Economy of the Australian Wool
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This provocative analysis challenges the belief that, in the first half of this century, Australia was dependent on Great Britain. Instead, "Markets, Money and Empire", suggests that Australia enjoyed considerable...
After Light: A History of Adelaide and Its City Council 1878-1928
The book titled After Light: A History of Adelaide and Its City Council 1878-1928 by the author Peter Morton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Cousteau's Papua New Guinea Journey
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An account of the land and dive time of the exploration of Papua New Guinea, giving, with Cousteau narrative and insight, the lay of land