Not Your Usual Bushrangers by Peter Macinnis
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Take a journey with one of Australia's most accessible history and science writers into an early Australia that extends beyond the Wild Colonial Boy and the Kelly Gang.Discover the endearing Moondyne Joe and Diver Fitzgerald, scallywags rather than villains, as well as some who affected a gentlemanly fr ...Show more
China Breakthrough: Whitlam Talks with China, 1971 by Billy Griffiths
$24.95 AUD
Category: Asian
In June 1971, Australian Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam left Sydney for a tour of Asia. At the time, the People's Republic of China was a forbidding unknown in Australia - the subject of heated debate, charged imagination, and Cold War paranoia. When Whitlam returned from his tour, the debate had irrev ...Show more
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
This book is the winner of the National Book Award 2014. A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. Age of Ambi ...Show more
Elegy : The First Day on the Somme by Andrew Roberts
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. In killing-grounds whose names are indelibly im ...Show more
Every Hill Got a Story by Central Land Council
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This collective memoir is for anyone who has ever wondered why Aboriginal people choose to live in remote communities in the heart of Australia. It is for all who want to truly understand why nyinanyi ngurangka - being on country - is not a "lifestyle choice" but a hard won right, a spiritual and cultur ...Show more
After the Blast: An Australian Officer in Iraq and Afghanistan by Garth Callendar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A very Australian story of heroism and healing. In 2004 Garth Callender, a junior cavalry officer, was deployed to Iraq. He quickly found his feet leading convoys of armoured vehicles through the streets of Baghdad and into the desert beyond. But one morning his crew was targeted in a roadside bomb att ...Show more
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston ...Show more
Warrior Elite: Australia's Special Forces - From Z Force and the SAS to the Wars of the Future by Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
WARRIOR ELITE is a unique and compelling account of Australia's special forces and intelligence operations - ranging from the early special forces of World War II to the establishment and development of the SAS and Commando Regiments as the elite fighters of today, and from the Australian Security Intel ...Show more
An Economy is Not a Society: Winners and Losers in the New Australia by Dennis Glover
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In modern Australia, productivity is all that matters, our leaders tell us. Economic growth above all else. But is this really what we, the people, want? Does it make our lives and our communities better?If the high priests of economics want the credit for Australia's economic growth over the last three ...Show more
War Classics Slipcase: War Letters of General Monash & Australian Victories in France in 1918 by John Monash
$80.00 AUD
Category: War
John Monash War Classics, In his own words . . . War Letters of General MonashThis collection of extraordinary, intimate letters from General Sir John Monash to his wife and daughter, records his experiences throughout World War I, from landing at Gallipoli to leading decisive victories on the Western F ...Show more
The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by John Monash; Bruce Haigh (Foreword by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
First published in 1920, The Australian Victories in France in 1918immediately garnered glowing praise as one of the most entertaining and informative accounts of war ever written. It is now recognised as one of the most important records of World War I, revealing the critical role Australians played on ...Show more
War Letters of General Monash by John Monash
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
Monash in his own words . . . Long before this letter can possibly reach you, great events which will stir the whole world and go down in history will have happened, to the eternal glory of Australia and all who have participated. -John Monash, 24 April 1915 These extraordinary, intimate letters from ...Show more