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Secret Cold War by John Blaxland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world. Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine operati ...Show more
Strangers in the Land: The coming of the Europeans by Joseph Harding; Australian Geographic Staff
$24.95 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Aust Geographic History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 04
Trace the interactions between the Europeans and indigenous people from 1788, from the first visits by European explorers to their eventual expansion throughout the land.Australian Curriculum: History - Historical Knowledge And Understanding Australian Curriculum Correlation: (Year 4) ''First C ...Show more
Strategy and Command: Issues in Australia's Twentieth-Century Wars by David Horner
$59.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian Army History Ser.
In Strategy and Command, David Horner provides an important insight into the strategic decisions and military commanders who shaped Australia's army history from the Boer War to the evolution of the command structure for the Australian Defence Force in the 2000s. He examines strategic decisions such as ...Show more
Surveying Success - The Hume Family in Colonial Queensland by Hilary J. Davies
$29.95 AUD
Category: Queensland History | Series: Brisbane History Group Ser.
Colonial Queensland was the stage on which the Hume family achieved success between 1863 and 1901. The scenes were set on the Darling Downs and in Brisbane. After serving in the merchant marine with the P&O Line, Walter Hume migrated to Queensland from England in 1862 to train as a surveyor. Soon he ...Show more
The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the ANZAC Legend by Matthew Haultain-Gall
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Ypres salient 'was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions' wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres – now known as Passchendaele – in 1917 would have disagreed. All five of the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) in ...Show more
The Cat: A Natural History by Sarah Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: A\Natural History Ser.
Of all the domesticated species, cats have enjoyed the most complex relationship with people--one that still leads to arguments about whether you can label the cat asleep by your fire "tame." The Cat: A Natural History begins at the beginning, just like Kipling but with more scientific heft, with a sect ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...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
The First Fleet : How and Why It Happened by Kenneth Muir; Australian Geographic Staff
$24.95 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Aust Geographic History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 04
A look at the series of decision made by the English government that led to the founding of the colony in New South Wales, and a chronicle of the events that befell the First Fleet on their journey.
The Good Country - The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Australian History Ser.
Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the imperial and colonial governments to protect them, and each other?In The Good Country Bain Attwood makes a m ...Show more
The Origin of Empire Rome from the Republic to Hadrian (264 BC - AD 138) by David Potter
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Capturing the pivotal moment when Rome transformed from a republic to a world empire, spanning over three hundred action-packed years. In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local ...Show more
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975 by John Blaxland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
In 1963, Robert Menzies had been in office for 13 years, Australians had entered the war against communism in Vietnam, and change was in the air. With its focus on exposing Soviet spies and communist collaborators, ASIO struggled to adjust to a society no longer willing to unquestioningly accept authori ...Show more