STORY OF THE TWELFTHA Record of the 12th Battalion AIF ...
For Australia the First World War remains the most costly co...
To Win the Battle: The 1st Australian Division in the G...
To Win the Battle: The 1st Australian Division in the Great ...
The Forgotten Soldier: He Went off to Fight in the Grea...
Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First Wor...
Catholicism and the Great War: Religion and Everyday Li...
Catholicism and the Great War: Religion and Everyday Life in...
Churchill's Secret War - The British Empire and the Rav...
A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, an...
Somewhere in France - A Novel of the Great War
In the dark and dangerous days of World War I, a daring youn...
Making History: The Great War Steam CD Key
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Making History: The Great War Steam CD Key
Making History: The Great War Steam KeyPlatform:SteamRelease...
The Foundations of Agricultural Economics: Together wit...
The Foundations of Agricultural Economics: Together with an ...
Valour and Violets - South Australia in the Great War
Close to 35,000 South Australians enlisted for service overs...
STORY OF THE TWELFTHA Record Of The 12th Battalion AIF During The
The Story Of The Orchestra - Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Mus...
Eye-catching illustrations, an engaging text and delightful musical selections on an accompanying 70-minute CD lead children aged 8 to 12 (and parents too!) on an exciting and educational listen-while-you-learn tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. The Composers, name by name Baroque Classical Romantic Modern - The Orchestra, instrument by instrument String ...
The Only Girl in the World
The Only Girl in the World is a gripping romance set during the First World War. Dennis is an English soldier fighting in the trenches of the Western Front. When he is on leave he meets H�l�ne, and its love at first sight. But the shadow of the trenches hangs over him. His leave is over in a mere two weeks. When this battle is won; when this war is over,...
Zero Night - The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 Zero Night 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first Great Escape but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious Warburg ...
Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman
[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.The Wall Street Journal The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, ...
Food & Wine Best of the Best, Volume 18 - The Most Exceptional Recipes from the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year
The most exceptional recipes from the 25 best cookbooks of the year, as chosen by the experts at Food & Wine magazine.To find the years most outstanding cookbooks, Food & Wine considered hundreds of contenders. Featuring 110 dishes from superstar cooks such as Mario Batali, Alice Medrich, Carla Hall, Tyler Florence, Marcus Samuelsson, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Geoffrey Zakarian, Food & W...
The Girl Who Rode the Wind
An epic, emotional story of two girls and their bond with beloved horses, the action sweeping between Italy during the Second World War and present day.When Lolas grandmother Loretta takes her to Siena, Italy, for the summer, Lola learns of her familys history of heartbreak and adventure, stretching back to the Second World War. In 1945, Lorettas nickname was `The Daredevil due to her fear...
The Girl Who Rode the Wind
An epic, emotional story of two girls and their bond with beloved horses, the action sweeping between Italy during the Second World War and present day. When Lolas grandmother Loretta takes her to Siena, Italy, for the summer, Lola learns of her familys history of heartbreak and adventure, stretching back to the Second World War. In 1945, Lorettas nickname was `The Daredevil due to her fe...
Broken Nation - Australians in the Great War
Winner of the 2014 Prime Ministers Literary Award for Australian History.If you read only one book about Australias experience of World War I . make it Broken Nation, an account that joins the history of the war to the home front, and that details the barbarism of the battlefields as well as the desolation, despair, and bitter divisions that devastated the communities left behind. Maril...
Xenophon's Cyrus the Great - The Arts of Leadership and War
In 1906, a stilted English translation of Xenophon of Athens, story about Cyrus the Greats military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more accessible edition of one of historys most extraordinary and successful leaders is emerging. Among his many achievements, this great leader of wisdom and virtue founded and extended the Persian Empire; conquered Babylon; freed 40,000...
Asterix: Omnibus 11 - Asterix and The Actress, Asterix and the Class Act, Asterix and the Falling Sky
In this special collectors edition, three great Asterix albums are collected in one fabulous volume for the first time ever. In ASTERIX AND THE ACTRESS, Asterix and Obelix celebrate their joint birthday party and some surprise guests have been invitied! ASTERIX AND THE CLASS ACT contains 14 stories, including tales of the day Asterix and Obelix were born (in the middle of a village fist fight...
The Southern Reach Trilogy - The Thrilling Series Behind Annihilation, the Most Anticipated Film of 2018
A contemporary masterpiece Guardian ALL THREE VOLUMES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN, OSCAR ISAAC, GINA RODRIGUEZ AND TESSA THOMPSON For years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearan...
The Great World
Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other peoples battles from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy yea...
The Australian Disease - On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom: Short Black 1
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Ils haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped ...
A Higher Call - The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bombers tail the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. This is the true story of the two p...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The first book in a new series that will explore Australias role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air warfares newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britains flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
Doctor Who: The Day She Saved the Doctor - Four Stories from the TARDIS
A companion: explores time and space with the Doctor, gets into trouble with the Doctor, fights enemies with the Doctor . . . And more often than not has to save his life. Here are four fantastic new adventures with the Doctor, starring Rose, Sarah-Jane, Clara and Bill. Publishing on International Womens Day in March 2018, it will also be the perfect way to prepare for Jodie Whittakers...
The White Cat and the Monk - A Retelling of the Poem 'Pangur Ban'
From the illustrator of Footpath Flowers, Sydney Smith, and award-winning author, Jo Ellen Bogart, comes a retelling of the classic Old Irish poem, Pangur Ban the poem that inspired the character of Pangur Ban in the Academy Award nominated animation, The Secret of Kells. The monk in the poem leads a simple life he studies his books late into the evening, searching for meaning. His cat, ...
The Red Line - The Gripping Story of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany
From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Commands 1944 Nuremberg Raid the RAFs bloodiest night of the Second World War More men from Royal Air Force Bomber Command died on one single night of the Second World War than the total RAF aircrew losses during the whole of the four-month-long Battle of Britain. 30 March ...
The Lane - The Official history of the world famous home of the Spurs
This beautiful coffee table book celebrates the history of White Hart Lane the world famous home of the Spurs since 1899 as an exciting new future looms in the form of a new stadium. Packed with great photographs, memorabilia and the memories of Spurs legends past and present who have graced the hallowed turf, this wonderful book was put together by the award-winning publishing team behind t...
The Great Plague
The Great Plague is a thrilling story of a young girl during the epidemic of 1665. Its 1665, and Alice is looking forward to being back in London. But the plague is spreading quickly, and as each day passes more red crosses appear on doors. When her aunt is struck down with the plague, she is forced to make a decision that could change her life forever
Al...
Fighting the Kaiserreich - Australia's epic within the Great War
This book portrays a modern epic of an army that sailed across the world to fight a war. Its struggle with the Kaiserreich (German empire) became the most formidable campaign Australian troops have ever fought. By the time Monashs soldiers broke through the Hindenburg Line, their achievement and its cost were staggering. This epic was created by normal Australians, and is understandable to no...