James Cook and his rivals vie to open up the Southern Hemisphere and claim sovereignty. Two ships set out in search of a missing continent: the St Jean-Baptiste, a French merchant ship commanded by Jean de...
Harry Murray's Medals: VC DSO and Bar DCM 1914-15 Star; War Medal; Victory Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45; King George VI Coronation Medal; Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal;...
Edmund Wilson published the history of revolutionary Marxism in 1940, just at the beginning of World War II, when the only reference of the new social experiment was the Soviet Union. Later, in 1971, he...
A debut novel about a young woman's coming-of-age, during one of the harshest whaling seasons in the history of New South Wales. 1908. It's the year that proves to be life-changing for our teenage narrator...
Shipwreck, storms, death and danger – and the race to beat the French two hundred years ago, in the romantic age of exploration, Matthew Flinders became the first to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous...
This work is immeasurably better than Peter Fitsimons' Ned Kelly. He drew heavily from Ian Jones' work, even the diagrams.
Ned Kelly was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and...
A Concise History of Australia is speculative at times. It covers the essential facts.
This book tells the history of Australia: it...
While WWII raged in Europe, Britain, over-stretched and under threat, skimped on the forces it needed to hold the Singapore base. When Japanese forces began flexing their muscles in the Pacific, a hasty...
The book narrates stories of Special Forces military operations, specifically those of the Green Berets. The events in the book actually occurred and refer to real-life individuals, but the characters and...
The author (London, 1936), professor at Merton College, Oxford, was Winston Churchill's official biographer and, among other books he published, are Second World War (1986), The Holocaust...