The Spirit of the Digger by Patrick Lindsay
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$35.00 (71% off)
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
A re-issue of Patrick Lindsay's bestselling SPIRIT OF THE DIGGER in an updated edition that will include fascinating new material including the digger in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Target London: Bombing the Capital 1915-2005 by Peter Reese
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
London was a target for Zeppelins and bombers during the First World War, for bombers, V1s and rockets in the Second, and for Cold War missiles and for terrorists in more recent times, yet rarely has the history of twentieth-century attacks on the capital been studied as a whole. Peter Reese, in this th ...Show more
Britain at WarClassic, Rare and Unseen by Maureen Hill
$29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
More than 800 painstakingly restored photographs from the archives of The Daily Mail give a fascinating insight into a time when Britain stood alone against the biggest threat in its history: Germany in World War Two. Lives were changed dramatically as devastating bombing raids laid waste to major citie ...Show more
Citizen Soldiers from the Beaches of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose
$7.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Reading Level: good
An oral history of the last European campaigns of the Second World War, from the landings at Normandy to the final surrender of the Axis powers. Ambrose, who has already chronicled the Second World War in UNDAUNTED COURAGE and D_DAY, concentrates on the experiences of the ordinary soldier in the ran ...Show more
Degree South War by Tim Page
$19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
A photographic collective of Australia's most creative and award-winning documentary photographers who have covered conflicts from Vietnam to present-day Afghanistan. Includes photos by Tim Page, David Dare Parker, Ben Bohane, Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone, Michael Coyne, Ashley Gilbertson and Sean Flynn. ...Show more
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty by Dan Jones (University of Central Florida)
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Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
"[Puts] the Magna Carta in its proper historical context Dan Jones triumphantly answers the questions he poses in his Introduction, about how it came to be granted, what it meant at the time, and what it should mean to us today." Andrew Roberts, "New York Times"bestselling author of"Storm of War"and "Na ...Show more
Medicine in First World War Europe - A Comparative Approach by Fiona Reid
$39.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented- approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services. In a ...Show more
Little Book of Crime and Punishment by Michelle Brachet
$7.99 AUD
Category: TRUE CRIME
We live in a society where every aspect of our everyday lives is governed by the law. We are subject to rules and regulations from where we can walk, and where we can't, how we are allowed to behave in public, what we are allowed to even say in public, and when and how much wa can consume alcohol. This ...Show more
Murder at Myall Creek by Mark Tedeschi
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Category: TRUE CRIME
One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the man who conducted it. In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in New South Wales. The trial created an eno ...Show more
Helpless: The True Story of a Neglected Girl Betrayed and Exploited by the Neighbour She Trusted by Marianne Marsh
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Category: TRUE CRIME
Neglected by her careless parents, Marianne turned to her neighbour, the one person that she thought she could trust...Eight year old Marianne, the eldest of five children, was neglected by her slovenly mother and her violent alcoholic father. Uncared for and unkempt she was rejected at school by her pe ...Show more
Blowback: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Michael Forwell
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Category: TRUE CRIME
On 29 June 1988 Michael Forwell had it all - fast cars, a nightclub in Bangkok, and a ship heading towards California carrying 72 tons of high-grade Thai marijuana, his last deal before going straight. On 30 June the DEA seized the ship in the biggest dope bust in history ...and very soon Michael had no ...Show more