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
Crossing Hitler: The man who put the Nazis on the stand by Carter Hett Benjamin
$12.00 AUD
Category: Military
D-Day 6.6.44 by Dan Parry
$9.95 AUD
Category: Military
The story of D-Day, the turning point in World War 2, has been well documented. But this lavishly illustrated book and accompanying epic TV drama will turn all preconceptions of 'Operation Overlord' on their head. June 2004 marks the 60th anniversary of D-Day, the last time official reunions of veterans ...Show more
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of ArtilleryAn A-Z Guide to Artillery Techniques and Equipment Throughout the World by Ian Vernon Hogg
$12.00 AUD
Category: Military
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro
$12.00 AUD
Category: General History
Ten years ago James Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize for his best-seller 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. Now, to mark the forthcoming 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, comes a compelling look at a no less extraordinary year in his life: 1606. 1606 is an intimate portrait of ...Show more
Up and Down Stairs by Jeremy Musson
$6.50 AUD
Category: General History
Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes this segregation was broken, as with the famous ma ...Show more
Great Australian Flood Stories by Ian Mannix
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
From ABC Books' Australiana range comes GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLOOD STORIES, stories of humour, survival and courage in the face of one of our country's most powerful natural forces, flood.
Gallipoli: The Final Battles and Evacuation of Anzac by David W. Cameron
$12.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser.
This book is the first book since Charles Bean's Official History to provide a detailed narrative of the bloody and tragic battle for Hill 60, along with the other engagements that went on until the very last days at Anzac - viewed from both sides of the trenches. It also examines in detail the planning ...Show more
Rule of St Benedict in English RB 1980 by St Benedict of Nursia
$8.95 AUD
Category: General History