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9781741667974

1788 the brutal truth of the first fleet

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NZ$ 34.95 each

Author: David Hill

Published by: Random House Australia

Set against the backdrop of Georgian England, the story of the First Fleet is one of courage, shortsightedness, tragedy, but above all of extraordinary resilience. Using diaries, letters and official records, David Hill reconstructs the experiences of these famous and infamous men and women of history.

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9780732276102

Andrew Fisher

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NZ$ 49.99 each

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Author: David Day

Published by: Bay Books Pty.Lt

Prime Minister Andrew Fisher was one of Australia's great nation-builders, yet his story is largely unknown. He left school early to work in the coalmines of Scotland, educating himself at night. In 1885, at the age of 22, he immigrated to Queensland. There Fisher committed himself to politics and was soon elected to the Queensland parliament, then to the first federal parliament. In 1908 he became prime minister for the first of three stints in the job. As prime minister, Fisher launched a massive nation-building programme, which included the establishment of the national capital, the Commonwealth Bank, old-age pensions, and a transcontinental railway line. His most pressing concern was to populate and defend the new nation. To this end he famously pledged to back Britain in the Great War "to the last man and the last shilling" - a commitment that came at the heavy cost of Gallipoli and the Western Front. In this authoritative and ... more

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9781405038706

Churchill and Australia

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Author: Graham Freudenberg

Published by: Pan Australia

Winston Churchill was a titan of the 20th century, universally acknowledged as one of the greatest leaders of his age. Yet his relationship with Australia was a fraught one, tainted by the military failure of the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War, and the disaster of Singapore in the Second. Churchill the patrician, descendant of dukes, could not appreciate Australia's dearly held egalitarianism, while Churchill the imperial statesman was impatient, and at times intolerant, of Australia's growing urge towards independence. The relationship between the two would span the first 50 tumultuous years of the 20th century, from the Boer War through to the opening salvoes of the Cold War, and act as a fascinating backdrop to Australia's maturity from a collection of autonomous colonies to full nationhood. Relying on exhaustive research and a true insider's knowledge of the political world, this is history written at its compelling best.

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9780731813810

Historical Atlas

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NZ$ 99.95 each

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Author: Geoffrey Wawro

Published by: Simon & Schuster Australia

The Historical Atlas presents significant events in the history of the world to date. Ranging through recorded time, it moves effortlessly through the eons of our existence, illustrating the path of our origins, development and culture. This atlas gives an insight into the world events of each time period, allowing neighbouring cultures to be compared and the contrasts between distant cultures to be examined. With over 300 full-colour maps, each event is significantly chronicled, showing the area where events occurred and the impact these made on our lives. Accompanying the maps are carefully selected images, chosen to reveal the true nature of the period, and a timeline that shows other events occurring at the time. In addition to the annals of each episode, a unique element has been added to bring the event alive. Learn everything from the detail of Nero's torture of Christians to the methods used by Kublai Khan to select his ... more

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9781741667035

Pasteur's Gambit

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Author: Stephen Dando-Collins

Published by: Vintage (Australia)

In 1887, the desperate NSW government of Sir Henry Parkes advertised an international competition for a biological cure for the rabbit plague then ravaging the farms of Australia and New Zealand. In Paris, famous microbiologist Dr Louis Pasteur, struggling to raise the funds to open his prestigious Pasteur Institute, saw the Australasian rabbit competition as the answer to his financial prayers. For Pasteur was convinced he had the biological remedy to the rabbit plague. To Australia came Pasteur's dashing 25-year-old nephew, Adrien Loir, sent to prove Pasteur's remedy and return home within six weeks with the prize money. But Pasteur had not reckoned on sabotage by his greatest scientific rival, or on the self-interest of the competition's Australian and New Zealand judges, or the private agendas of local politicians. Young Loir, determined not to fail his uncle, was in for the fight of his life. Pasteur's Gambit, featuring a cast of ... more

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9781741755497

The Other Anzacs : Nurses at War 1914-1918

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Author: Peter Rees

Published by: Allen & Unwin

'I had my right arm under a leg, which I thought was [the patient's], but when I lifted I found to my horror that it was a loose leg with a boot and a puttee on it. It was one of the orderly's legs which had been blown off and had landed on the patient's bed. The next day they found the trunk about 20 yards away ...''One of the men asked if Sister Campbell were here, to tell her about her brother being killed ...but she went on working ...'By the end of the Great War, 21 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. They were there for Gallipoli and they were there for the savagery of the Western Front. They worked virtually around the clock to care for the rapidly mounting casualties. Within twelve hours of the ... more

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9780731813681

The Western Front Diaries

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NZ$ 49.95 each

Hardback

Author: Jonathan King

Published by: Simon & Schuster Australia

Hidden under the shadow of Gallipoli for decades, the breathtaking story of what really happened on the Western Front has finally been brought into the bright light of day.

Five times greater than Gallipoli, the Western Front had:

* five times more soldiers (250 000 rather than 50 000)
* more than five times the amount of men killed (46 000 compared to 8709)
* more than five times as many battles, with troops serving there for four times longer, and
* five times the sum of Victoria Crosses earned (a total of 53).

Thankfully, the diggers serving in this first Australian Army Corps and under an Australian commander for the first time, actually helped win the war.

Using hundreds of brutally honest and extraordinary eyewitness accounts of the diggers in the muddy and bloody trenches, Western Front Diaries reproduces their private diaries, letters and postcards to tell of their heart-rending experiences, ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781741755770

Voyages of Discovery : A visual celebration of ten of the greatest natural history expeditions

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NZ$ 49.95 each

Hardback

Author: Tony Rice

Published by: Allen & Unwin

Dop November 2008, Australia
Hardcover
200 x 225mm
336 pages
colour illus

Voyages of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of ten of the most significant natural history expeditions.Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries document advances and watersheds in the field of natural science. The stories behind these images - of explorers, naturalists, artists and photographers - entwine into a fascinating study of human achievement and natural wonder.Among the many stories of adventure and great scientific endeavour are: Sir Hans Sloane's journey to Jamaica in 1687; James Cook's perilous Pacific crossings; and Darwin's historic voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.Hand-picked from the vast Library of the Natural History Museum, London, the illustrations and artworks contained here form a rare collection, most of which are exclusively presented in this stunning book.

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9780733621116

War Behind the Wire

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NZ$ 35.00 each

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Author: fhg

Published by: Hachette Australia

More than 34,000 Australian men and women have so far ended up in captivity - over 100 in the Boer War, more than 4,000 in WWI, just 30 during the Korean War, none in Vietnam, and most of all, WWII, 30,560. Of the total number of Australian deaths during WWII, nearly thirty per cent, one in every three, were prisoners. In War Behind the Wire, Michael Caulfield presents stories from the Australians at War Film Archive that follows the stories of the POWs from capture to eventual liberation. The book ranges across all the wars, from the men and women trapped under the ruthless Japanese regime, to the forgotten POWs of the Germans and the Italians, captured in Greece, or Crete, or Libya or Syria, or those who simply fell from the skies somewhere over occupied Europe. It ventures into the experiences of those who were taken by ambush in the scrubby hills and ranges of Korea and even encompasses the tales of civilian prisoners, caught up in ... more

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