The Frontier Below by Jeff Maynard
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two thirds of our planet. We only see the entrance to it. Beyond that entrance is a world ...Show more
'the Best System of Trenches in Australia' - World War I Training Site, Duntroon Trench Warfare and Bombing School, Jerrabomberra Wetlands Nature Reserve, Canberra by Mark Butz
20.00 AUD
Category: Canberra
History under your feet: This is the story (so far) of one of the most surprising finds in the history of Canberra - a World War I trench system within sight of Australia's Parliament House. Through 1916-17 hundreds of Army officers and senior NCOs from across the country participated in the Trench Warf ...Show more
Lessons From History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia’s Greatest Challenges by Edited by: Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity, David Lowe
39.99 AUD
Category: History
In Lessons from History leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present.Does history repeat itself in meaningful ways, or is each problem unique? Does a knowledge of Australian histor ...Show more
On the Trail of the Plains-wanderer: A Precious Australian Bird by Rohan Cleave
24.99 AUD
Category: Queer Non-Fiction
Age range 5 to 9The Plains-wanderer is unlike any other bird on Earth – it’s one of a kind! On the Trail of the Plains-wanderer tells the true story of one of Australia’s most critically endangered bird species. This unique, quirky and precious bird faces many threats, but continues to survive against t ...Show more
Dive! Australian Submariners at War by Mike Carlton
45.00 AUD
Category: Military
Submariners are a special breed. Not for them a life on the ocean wave, the fresh air and sunshine of other naval sailors. With stealth and daring they go deep and dark, alone and unseen, in often dangerous waters. They sometimes call themselves the Silent Service, with good reason. Australian submarin ...Show more
The Dragon Empress by Marina Warner
25.00 AUD
Category: Historical Biography
From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's biography lays bare her complex personality- her extreme conventionalism; her h ...Show more
Murder at Myall Creek: The trial that defined a nation by Mark Tedeschi
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the man who conducted it. In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in New South Wales. The trial created an eno ...Show more
Passchendaele by Paul Ham
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not disarmed these pictures of their power to shock. At the very least they ask us, on the 100th anniversary of the battle, to see and to try to understand what happened here. Yes, we commemorate the event. Yes, we adorn our breasts with po ...Show more
Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham
45.00 AUD
Category: Military
Seen as the last 'hot' frontline of the Cold War, the ten-year struggle in the rice paddies and jungles of South Vietnam unleashed the most devastating firepower on the Vietnamese nation and visited terrible harm on civilians and soldiers. Yet the Australian forces applied tactics that were very differe ...Show more
Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches by Paul Ham
34.95 AUD
Category: Military
The untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches of the Second World War.This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2500 British and Australia ...Show more
The Pacific: in the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill (PB) by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
32.99 AUD
Category: History
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of peop ...Show more
The Honest History Book by Alison Broinowski (Editor); David Stephens (Editor)
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity? The passionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia - mostly for its impact on our citizens a ...Show more