The Killer Bees: Australian Independent Companies and Commandos at War, 1942-1945 by Gregory Blake
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
The Independent Companies and Commandos were a unique form of sub-unit within the Australian army during the Second World War. They were units composed of an exceptional group of individuals with very special attributes and skills who thrived on the unconventional and doing things very much in their own ...Show more
Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3 by David Hunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Libera ...Show more
1942: the year the war came to Australia: The bombing of Darwin and the attack on Sydney by the Japanese by Peter Grose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The story of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese midget sub attack on Sydney Harbour in one volume from the bestselling author of An Awkward Truth and A Very Rude Awakening. 'Grose's compassionate, honest and vivid account deserves to be widely read.' Sun Herald on An Awkward Truth 'About as good as ...Show more
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The untold story of race and power in Australia's Jazz AgeThe 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster-and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful ...Show more
Taking to the Field: A History of Australian Women in Science by Jane Carey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
If asked to name an Australian woman scientist from the past, very few could. Let’s change that.Histories of Australian science largely overlook women. Their absence gives the impression that, until recently, there were no Australian women scientists. But this is far from true: women formed a much large ...Show more
Failed Ambitions: Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities by Lee-Ann Monk; David Henderson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The history of Melbourne's Kew Children's Cottages (1887- 2008) is the challenging story of an institution that failed its residents - and it is vividly relevant to today, when the rights of people with disabilities are the subject of a royal commission. Those with an intellectual disability were histor ...Show more
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' -David Marr With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent ...Show more
The Colony: a History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: General Adult
The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blu ...Show more
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
The Battle for Australia by Bob Wurth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Battle for Australia stemmed the unprecedented Japanese advance from the north. The battle became a precarious fighting comeback at a time when Australia was naked to invasion. It loosened subservient ties to Britain and strengthened co-operation and dependence on the US. It was fought in Malaya, Si ...Show more