The Women Were There - Nineteen Women Who Enlivened Australia's History by Nance Donkin
$6.50 AUD
Category: Australiana
The King's Cardinal - The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey by Peter Gwyn
$12.00 AUD
Category: General History
Proud, greedy, corrupt and driven by overwhelming personal ambition. Such is the traditional image of Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Abbot of St. Albans, Bishop if Tournai and Papal Legate. It is an image which Peter Gwyn examines, challenges and decisively ove ...Show more
Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
$4.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
This is an extraordinary story of courage and faith. It is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy deemed these girls were taken from their ki ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
$12.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Miles Franklin award-winning classic. 'One of the greatest books written this century' - The Illustrated London News 'the thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clev ...Show more
Crossed BoomerangsThe History of All the 31 Battalions by Robert Burla
$14.95 AUD
Category: Military
To the Limit by Tom A Johnson
$9.95 AUD
Category: Military
During the Vietnam War, one out of every eighteen helicopter pilots never made it home alive. At age nineteen, Tom Johnson flew in the thick of it, and lived to tell his harrowing tale. Johnson piloted the UH-1 "Iroquois"-better known as the "Huey"-as part of the famous First Air Cavalry Division. His b ...Show more
The Dambusters Raid by John Sweetman
$7.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. For the loss of 11 aircraft, the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany's industrial heartland were breached, and a ...Show more
Lasseter's Gold by Warren Brown
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Harold Bell Lasseter disappeared in late 1930 it could have been the end of a mystery. Thirty-three years earlier he had staggered out of the desert, almost dead, his pockets bulging with gold, claiming to have found a 15 kilometre gold reef. The mystery deepened when he and a surveyor returned to ...Show more