Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Vietnam remains one of most controversial and difficult wars that has been fought. On the 50th anniversary of Australia's first involvement comes Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War, for anyone who wishes to understand why Australia went to war, and wants to make sense of the intensely unr ...Show more
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
A Town Is Born - The Story of Fitzroy Crossing by Steve Hawke
$22.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Dreamtime Heritage by Ainslie Roberts (Illustrator); Melva Roberts
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
A man's Dreaming merged with the Dreamtime. Everything in life, whether tangible or intangible, had been influenced by the people of the Dreamtime: the creators of the world and those who lived in the beginning. Therefore, everything that he saw, did, felt, and experienced was to some degree sacred. The ...Show more
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau: How Australia’s Signals-Intelligence Network Shortened the Pacific War by David Dufty
$37.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Alan Turing saved millions of lives. But Bletchley Park wasn't the only major code-breaking operation during World War II. Down under, there was Central Bureau.Central Bureau - Australia's own large and sophisticated intelligence network, built from scratch. It was this group of mathematicians, code-bre ...Show more
Melbourne (Updated Edition) by Sophie Cunningham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: City Ser.
A year in Melbourne's city life told in diary form, this contemporary and personal portrait depicts major events from the Australian heat wave, which culminated in more than 400 bushfires, to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. While walking through Melbourne's oldest suburb to its largest market, ex ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People: Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to term ...Show more
The Eureka Stockade: 1854 by Gregory Blake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
The Eureka Stockade is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial government attacked and stormed a crudely-built fortification erected by insurgent go ...Show more
Homeland Heroes - From Australian Disasters Heroes Are Born by Mal Walden
$25.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Australia's favourite newsman, Mal Walden, continues his theme of unique Australian stories with Homeland Heroes. This is a tribute to those who have demonstrated incredible bravery and self-sacrifice in the face of overwhelming odds. Out of disasters, heroes are born. Homeland Heroes pays tribute to o ...Show more
Qantas: The Flying Kangaroo by Neil Montagnana-Wallace
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
No symbol better conveys the intrepid spirit of Australia than the flying kangaroo. Whether it's glimpsed on a red-eye flight to an interstate business meeting, before leaving for adventure or holidays, or when longing to return home, that sweep of red defines air travel in Australia.Qantas has always b ...Show more
150 Years Melbourne Zoo by Neil Montagnana-wallace
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Times change and so too, do zoos. Gone is the menagerie mentality. The cigarette-smoking Orang-utan or monkey tea-parties are things of the past. Feeding gorillas peanuts in return for a trick, or riding an elephant for kicks are activities that have become quirky anecdotes in the Zoo's history. Today, ...Show more
Kokoda by Paul Ham
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Numerous accounts have been written of the infamous Kokoda Track campaign, but never before has this fascinating tale been told from both sides of the conflict. Now, in a unique and balanced portrayal, journalist Paul Ham recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of the hellish Papuan jungl ...Show more