Valour and Violets - South Australia in the Great War
Close to 35,000 South Australians enlisted for service overs...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Cente...
The first book in a new series that will explore Australia...
WWI - The Great War Collector's Edition
The definitive War collection from the History Channel. E...
Making History: The Great War Steam CD Key
Making History: The Great War Steam KeyPlatform:SteamRelease...
Making History: The Great War Steam CD Key
Making History: The Great War Steam KeyPlatform:SteamRelease...
Making History: The Great War - The Red Army DLC Steam ...
The first expansion to the acclaimed WWI strategy game Makin...
Reporting the First World War: Charles Repington, The T...
Reporting the First World War: Charles Repington, The Times ...
The Wars before the Great War: Conflict and Internation...
The Wars before the Great War: Conflict and International Po...
The Wars before the Great War: Conflict and Internation...
The Wars before the Great War: Conflict and International Po...
Valour And Violets - South Australia In The Great War
Carving a History: a Guide to the Great Court
This comprehensive guide to the sandstone centrepiece of The University of Queenslandâs St Lucia campus â the Great Court â navigates the reader effortlessly through the siteâs iconic carvings and their history.Carving a History: a Guide to the Great Court is a major update and restructure of the existing publication A Guide to the Great Court; first produced by UQ's Media and ...
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, ...
Of Fortunes and War - Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
The list of female war reporters is long and distinguished. But the great-grandmother of them all was Clare Hollingworth Mail on Sunday Unputdownable Alexander McCall Smith One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met Chris Patten She was a pioneer Kate Adie OBEA NEW EDITION WITH EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE CLARE HOLLINGWORTH FAMILY ARCHIVELegendary journalist Clare...
Catherine the Great and Potemkin - The Imperial Love Affair
One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra
Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair Economist It was historys most successful political partnership as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin wil...
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...
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 Lazarus War - Origins
A gripping read that moves at warp speed. Jack Campbell on The Lazarus War: ArtefactFor someone who has died and come back as many times as Conrad Harris, the nickname Lazarus is well-deserved. His elite military teams are specialists in death running suicide missions in simulant bodies to combat the alien race known as the Krell. But now the Krell Empire has wreaked such devastation tha...
Betoota's Australia - a guide to the Great Southern Land by arguably Australia's oldest newspaper
A relatively comprehensive guide to the Great Southern Land by arguably Australias oldest newspaper. Now in its 11th edition, this full-colour guide to contemporary Australia has been touted as the most comprehensive insight into the lucky country since Microsofts Encarta. Initially written for those venturing for the first time beyond Betootas city limits, Betootas Australia has become t...
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...
Leman Russ - The Great Wolf
The second title in The Horus Heresy: Primarchs series, a brand new sequence of novels from Black Library. Many are the sagas of Leman Russ, Lord of Winter and War, most fearsome of the Emperors primarch sons. At the height of the Great Crusade, his Space Wolves fight to bring the rebel world of Dulan to compliance. Enraged by the defiance of the tyrant Durath, Russ has pledged to strike him dow...
Double Diamonds - Australian commandos in the Pacific War, 1941-45
During the Second World War, in the mountains and jungles of Timor, Bougainville and New Guinea, Australian commando units fought arduous campaigns against the Japanese. The story of these elite independent companies and commando squadrons, whose soldiers wore the distinctive double-diamond insignia, is told here for the first time. Through 130 powerful images from the Australian War Memorial...
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (colour edition)
Roald Dahls Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator in glorious full colour for the very first time Inside the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his family are cruising a thousand feet above the chocolate factory.They can see the whole world below them, but theyre not alone. The American Space Hotel has just launched. Lurking inside are the Vernicious Knids the most brutal,...
The Tank War - The British Band of Brothers - One Tank Regiment's World War II
From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to Europe for the Normandy landings. Wherever they went, the notoriety of the Filthy Fifth grew they revelled in their reputation for fightin...
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...
Lonely Planet South Australia & Northern Territory
Lonely Planet: The worlds leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet South Australia & Northern Territory is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch the sun set over Uluru, see rock art in Kakadu National Park or enjoy the luxury of South Australias wine regions; all with your trusted travel companion. Get ...
A Chaplain at Gallipoli - The Great War Diaries of Kenneth Best
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working with the troops under fire. Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrians the first Territor...
A Prayer for Gallipoli - The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working with the troops under fire. Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrians the first Territ...
Fear of Abandonment - Australia in the world since 1942
In Fear of Abandonment, expert and insider Allan Gyngell tells the story of how Australia has shaped the world and been shaped by it since it established an independent foreign policy during the dangerous days of 1942. Gyngell argues that the fear of being abandoned originally by Britain, and later by our most powerful ally, the United States has been an important driver of how Australia act...
The Civil War
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world, from Gaul and Spain to Asia and Africa. Where Caesars own account leaves off in 48 BC, hi...
The Great Swindle - Au revoir la-haut (English edition)
Now a major French film Au revoir la-haut Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irene and Camille. October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri dAulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once mor...
The Vandemonian War
Britain formally colonised Van Diemens Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to the aboriginal hunting grounds. There was conflict, there was violence. But, governments and gentlemen succeeded in burying the real story of the Vandemonian War for nearly two centuries. The Vandemonian War had many sides and shades, but it...