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A Failure to Understand: Early Colonialism and the Indigenous Peoples by Margaret McPhee; Australian Geographic Staff
$24.95 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Aust Geographic History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 04
At look at the monumental clash between European colonialism and the Aboriginal peoples, from the first tentative and difficult interactions of the early explorers to the arrival of the First Fleet.Australian Curriculum: History - Historical Knowledge And Understanding Australian Curriculum Correl ...Show more
A Short History of Coffee by Gordon Kerr
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: Short History Ser.
Having conquered the world's taste buds and established itself as a staple in our daily lives, coffee has mirrored the moods and movements of society for centuries - yet, how much do we know about its history?In his riveting new book, Gordon Kerr investigates the fascinating history behind the global ob ...Show more
Across the Seas: where our immigrants came from by Adrian Osterley; Australian Geographic Staff
$24.95 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Aust Geographic History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 06
Millions of people from all over the world have come to Australia as immigrants. Learn about the countries and regions they came from, and why they left to make the long trip to Australia.Australian Curriculum: History - Historical Knowledge And Understanding Australian Curriculum Correlation: ...Show more
Armies in Europe by John Gooch
$75.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Routledge Library Editions: Military and Naval History Ser.
This book, originally published in 1980, is a study of the nature and purposes of peace-time military organization in Europe, and of the characteristics and outcome of the major wars fought during these years. It charts the rise of mass armies and the role of conscription as a socializing agent and a mi ...Show more
Australia - Modern Architectures in History by Harry Margalit
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Modern Architectures in History Ser.
This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the beginning of a search for better city forms and buildings to accommodate the changing realities of Austra ...Show more
Australian Battalion Commanders in by Garth Pratten
$69.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Army History Series
In Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, Garth Pratten explores, for the first time, the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry battalions in World War II. Despite their vital role as the lynchpins of the battlefield, uniting the senior officers ...Show more
Barney and the Secret of the French Spies (Secret History #4) by Jackie French
$15.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
The new title in the critically acclaimed series that explores Australia's early Colonial secret history In 1798 orphaned Barney Bean now has a flourishing farm in the New SouthWales colony and everything he ever dreamed of ... except his childhood friendElsie. Butwhen Elsie falls ill and Barney rushes ...Show more
Barney and the Secret of the Whales (Secret History #2) by Jackie French
$15.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
What is the sailor's secret about the treasure of Australia's colony? The second book in a series that explores little-known history about Australia's fascinating past. Barney Bean is keen to make his fortune and he hears a secret; a sailor's secret about the treasure of the colony. But how can chasin ...Show more
Born of Fire and Ash - Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000 by Craig Stockings (Editor)
$99.00 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: The\Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor Ser.
Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War, and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nes ...Show more
Coming to Australia: post-war immigration by Australian Geographic
$24.95 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Aust Geographic History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 06
In 1946 a great immigration program began. It was encouraged by a desire to rapidly increase the population to lessen the chance of invasion by a future enemy. The other main reason to provide a large base of workers for the nation's expanding factories and ambitious infrastructure projects.Australian C ...Show more
Death on Bloody Ridge: Chunuk Bair: the battle that decided the fate of the Gallipoli Campaign by David W. Cameron
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
The August Offensive or ‘Anzac Breakout’ at Gallipoli was an attempt to break the stalemate of the campaign. It saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the landing as Commonwealth and Turkish troops fought desperate battles at Lone Pine, German Officers’ Trench, Turkish Quinn’s, The Chessboard, The Ne ...Show more
Destroy and Build : Pacification in Phuoc Thuy, 1966-1972 by Thomas Richardson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Army History Series
In 2002, Governor General Michael Jeffrey stated that 'we Australians had everything under control in Phuoc Tuy Province'. This referred not only to military control, but to the policy of 'pacification' employed by the Republic of Vietnam and external 'Free World' allies such as the US and Australia. In ...Show more