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Bloodbath - 1945 VFL Grand Final by Ian W. Shaw
$30.00 AUD
Category: Football/Soccer | Reading Level: very good
The 1945 VFL Grand Final was Melbourne's first major sporting event after the end of World War II. The game was advertised as "the Victory Grand Final" and signalled an end to global violence and bloodshed. Ironically those are the characteristics that will forever be associated with the game which has ...Show more
On Radji Beach - Vivian Bullwinkel and the Vyner Brooke by Ian W. Shaw
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses who boarded a coastal freighter named the Vyner Brooke. They only made it as far as the waters off Muntok Island near Sumatra. There, Ja ...Show more
Pandemic - The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20 by Ian W. Shaw
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay: The 1942 Bombing of Broome, and its Tragic Aftermath by Ian W. Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Japanese attack on Broome is the second most deadly air raid on Australia soil in our history and yet it's almost entirely overlooked. On 3 March 1942, nine Japanese Zero planes strafed the small town planning to destroy the aerodrome and American planes. With no notice, the townsfolk could only put ...Show more
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