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by Anthony Hill
Young Bill is the true story of the suffering - and survival - of an underage prisoner-of-war during World War II. Bill Young, who is still alive, enlised in the army in July 1941 aged only 15, though he said he was 19. He went to Singapore, was ...
ISBN: 9780670076178
Binding: Paperback Book
$29.99
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
by Peter FitzSimons
Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December, 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a ...
ISBN: 9781741666601
Binding: Hardback Book
$49.95
A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011
by Peter FitzSimons
In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naive, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence ...
ISBN: 9780732295257
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.95
Public Life, Private Demons
by Andrew Robb
Andrew Robb's battle with the black dog has touched a chord with many Australians. His memoir explores the challenges of managing depression, political ambition and life in the Liberal Party. Robb's career has been devoted to the Liberal cause - ...
ISBN: 9780522858570
Binding: Paperback Book
$34.99
Bert Kienzle - The Man Who Made the Kokoda Track
by Robyn Kienzle
If one person 'made' the Kokoda Track, that man was Bert Kienzle. Part Samoan and German/English, born in Fiji and raised in Germany and Australia, he was managing a rubber plantation and gold mine in Papua New Guinea at the outbreak of World War II.
ISBN: 9780733627637
Binding: Paperback Book
$35.00
Australia's Greatest Self-made Heroes
by Evan McHugh
From the first convict runaways to the spectacular showdown that ended Ned Kelly's career, Evan McHugh delivers true tales of daring exploits and a cast of roguish characters who blazed their place into Australian history. These are incredible ...
ISBN: 9780143567301
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.95
How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
by Don Lattin
This book is the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the ...
ISBN: 9780061655944
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.99
by Paul Johnson
Applies a wide lens and an unconventional approach to illuminate the various phases of Churchill's career. From his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of the Empire to his role as an elder statesman foretelling the advent of the ...
ISBN: 9780143117995
Binding: Paperback Book