Australia category: 2401 books
Tunnel Rats
The larrikin Aussie legends who discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
'All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn't matter how small the tunnel is you never know what's around the bend . You don't know if it's abandoned, you don't know if it's booby trapped and you don't know why the tunnel is there...
Short Black 5 The Brave Ones
East Timor, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage...
by M Howard Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2012
Love, murder, betrayal, and adventure with transportation of convicts in 1787 and the founding of the penal colony that became Australia. With the American colonies closed to Britain, the gaols overflowed, the criminal under-class posed a threat to the property clazzes. A solution was required....
Invasion Rabaul
The Epic Story of Lark Force, the Forgotten Garrison, January ? July 1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The riveting first book in Bruce Gamble's critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover asDarkest Hour, which chronicles the longest battle of World War II.
January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the tiny Australian garrison...
Bomber Boys
The extraordinary adventures of a group of airmen who escaped the Japanese and became the RAAF's celebrated 18th Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
March 1942. Java is about to fall. An Australian military dispatch rider and a Dutch air force transport pilot embark on a frightening escape from the advancing Japanese that takes them from Bandung to a crash landing just north of Darwin. Both would later join a unique band of flyers determined to...
Downunder
The history of found shipwrecks along the Central and Hunter Coastlines.
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Have you ever wondered about some of the stories of the maritime disasters that have happened along the Central Coast and Hunter Coastlines of Australia? This book visits the individual histories of located shipwrecks along this notorious coastline.
Some of the stories include the tale of...
by Cindy Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
This was "the war to end all wars"; a conflict in which 155,000 Australian servicemen were wounded and over 60,000 died. Through the devastation it left behind, it changed the face of much of the Western world and laid the foundations for World War II. Yet this conflict, fought far from Australian shores,...
by John Masefield
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was a bold strategic move to capture the Ottoman Turkish capital of Istanbul, but things began to go wrong from the very start. Allied troops found the landing beaches heavily defended, and the fighting soon stalemated into a brutal battle of attrition...
by Dane Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality.
by Jim Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The trucker's job-so vital to our nation's everyday life-makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories.
This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and...
by Patricia Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Patty spent the first thirty three years of her life living with her family on remote outback station properties - Old Bando, Minetta, Old Outstation - in south west Queensland, Australia. When her brother, Kerry developed a brain tumor, they moved to live in Charleville - a small outback town. Patty...
The Sea and Civilization
A Maritime History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways,...
by Miriam Estensen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In August 1800, George Bass returned to England after five years in the British colony of New South Wales. Gifted, ambitious and impatient with the limitations of a naval career, he took leave from the navy to purchase a ship of his own and organise a commercial venture to Sydney. He also met Elizabeth...
by David Malouf
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they...