Menzies at War by Anne Henderson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little. Many followers of Australian political history, including Liberal party supporters, forget that Rob ...Show more
The Search for HMAS Sydney : An Australian Story by Ted Graham et al
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In November 1941 HMAS Sydney, the pride of Australia's wartime fleet, and its crew of 645 disappeared without a trace off the Western Australian coast. All that was known was Sydney had come under fire from the German raider HSK Kormoran, which also sank. After numerous unsuccessful searches from the mi ...Show more
Changi Book by Lachlan Grant
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the tradition of "The Anzac Book "comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi prison camp. No other place is more closely associated with the Australian prisoner-of-war experience of the Second World War than Changi. With 15,000 Australian soldiers captured at the fa ...Show more
Dismissal, the Where Were You on November 11, 1975? by Sybil Nolan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Forty years have passed since Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam from office, shocking an already divided nation. Now all the principal players in this political and constitutional drama have passed: not only Kerr and Whitlam but also Whitlam's chief opponent Mal ...Show more
Kidnapped by Mark Tedeschi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Kidnapped is about Stephen Bradley, who perpetrated the 1960 kidnapping for ransom and murder of eight-year-old Sydney schoolboy, Graeme Thorne. This was not only a vivid example of murder for greed, but also marked the beginning in Australia of modern forensic science as a tool in the investigation of ...Show more
The Europeans in Australia: A History - Volume one - the Beginning by Alan Atkinson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Europeans in Australia Ser.
The first of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the clim ...Show more
Death of Holden: The End of an Australian Dream by Royce Kurmelovs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When Holden signalled that it would close its Adelaide factory, it struck at the very heart of Australian identity. Holden is our car made on our shores. It's the choice of patriotic rev heads and suburban drivers alike. How could a car that was so beloved - and so popular - be so unprofitable to make? ...Show more
The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989 (HB) by John Blaxland
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Official History of ASIO 3
The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world...Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine operat ...Show more
Sea of Dangers: Captain Cook and His Rivals by Geoffrey Blainey
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Two ships set out in search of a missing continent- the St Jean-Baptiste,a French merchant ship commanded by Jean de Surville, and the Endeavour, a small British naval vessel captained by James Cook. Distinguished historian Geoffrey Blainey tells the story of these rival ships and the men who sailed the ...Show more
The Big Book of Flight by Rowland White
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
Everybody dreams of flying. For as long as we've been able to look up and see the birds we've wanted to join them. But our efforts to do so have not always been as elegant or accomplished. Instead, there's been danger, excitement, courage and brilliance. The Big Book of Flight is a celebration of it all ...Show more
Flying the Southern Cross : The Adventures of Aviators Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm by Michael Molkentin
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Australian aviators Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm made the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928 in an aircraft constructed largely of timber and fabric, the Southern Cross. With Americans Jim Warner as radio operator and Harry Lyon as navigator, they made the trip from Oakland, California, in ni ...Show more
Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles by Joe Maxwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles is the rollicking eyewitness account of the role of 18th Battalion AIF in the First World War by one of its most decorated soldiers, the irrepressible Joe Maxwell. Maxwell served at Gallipoli before being transferred to the Western Front. In just twelve months during 1917- ...Show more