Author: David Horner & Peter Williams
Interest in the Kokoda Trail is growing rapidly among many Australians, both for its attraction as a hiking destination and for its historical significance. Kokoda for Dummies offers a fast track tool for learning everyt ... |
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Author: 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 for ... |
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Culture and Ideology in the 1990s
Author: Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of la ... |
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Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. for Fun.
Author: Mark Thomas
'Good fences make good neighbours, but what about bad ones?' The Israeli separation barrier is probably the most iconic divider of land since the Berlin Wall. It has been declared illegal under international law and its ... |
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Author: Charles Dickens
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long impris ... |
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Author: Charles Dickens
Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an e ... |
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The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Author: Anne Sebba
One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian Anne Sebba has written the first full biography by a woman of Wallis Simpson, Duchess ... |
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Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas
Author: Lucy Frost
In the early 19th century crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, settling in the crowded and damp tenements of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Orphan girls, single mothers, women with feckless hus ... |
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Author: Frank Walker
The Vietnamese hill tribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen. In 1963, the 28-year-old Barry was sent to Vietnam as part of the 30-ma ... |
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A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years
Author: Jared M. Diamond
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the ... |
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The Story of Australia's Greatest Shipwreck Hunter
Author: Hugh Edwards
The story of more than sixty years of diving adventures including his significant find of The Batavia, Hugh Edwards documents his life through tales of shipwreck, treasure hunting and salvage. Brought up on tales of pira ... |
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Author: Anna Funder
In the former East there was one agent of the Stasi, the secret police, for every six citizens. What did it do to people to be so watched? And what sort of people were they, all those watchers? In her internationally acc ... |
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The Shocking True Story of the Decline and Fall of the Australian Wool Industry
Author: Charles Massy
Breaking the Sheep's Back is the untold story of Australia's biggest business disaster. It involves government complicity, and it is a political scandal that reaches into the offices of Cabinet ministers and prime minist ... |
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Australians at War from Beersheba to Tobruk and El Alamein
Author: Peter Rees
More than 2,200 Australians died in the desert campaigns in WWI, while another 3,500 died in the desert and Mediterranean campaigns in WWII. Thousands more carried the wounds of war for the rest of their lives. Countless ... |
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The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
Author: Lady Almina
Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle - the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey - eight years ago. In that time she's become fascinated by the rich history of Highclere, and by the extraordin ... |
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Dog Overboard
Author: Emma Pearse
The heart-warming tale of love and loyalty and one amazing dog, Sophie...As Jan and Dave Griffith motored out of Mackay Marina on their boat, Honey May, it was just another day in paradise. A weekend's sailing around the ... |
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How Britain Made the Modern World
Author: Niall Ferguson
Shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all history, how it ended, and how - for better or worse - it made our world what it is ... |
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Master Mariner
Author: Rob Mundle
The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as ... |
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Mates, Mascots and Marvels - True Stories of Animals Who Went to War
Author: Barry Stone
From the Boer War to the conflict in Vietnam, from the Somme to Afghanistan, from beasts of burden and bomb detectors to providers of companionship and light relief for the men and women in war, animals have played a vit ... |
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Author: Frank Walker
For 39 years the Australian Defence Force strenuously denied a unit called the 2nd Defence and Employment Platoon existed during the Vietnam War.The platoon was a makeshift rapid deployment force of 38 men, all regular t ... |
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