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Hamilton Hume
Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as...
by Robert Macklin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
It is a story of sheer courage and skill - incredible bravery combined with the precision of a surgeon - as these men defused deadly mines, often dropped in residential areas. The detonators were frequently booby trapped by the Nazis, and these Australians and their British colleagues came to recognise...
Warrior Elite
Australias special forces Z Force to the SAS intelligence operations to cyber warfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A compelling account of Australia's intelligence organisations and special forces - from the early days of the commandos during World War II through to the SAS of today and the cyber wars of the future. From the co-author of SAS Sniper.
Warrior Elite is a unique and compelling account of Australia's...
Castaway
The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
In 1858, 14-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul. With a cargo of Bordeaux wine, they stopped in Bombay, then Hong Kong, and from there they set sail with more than 300 Chinese prospectors bound for the goldfields of Ballarat and Bendigo. Around the eastern...
Drug Warrior
Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and the Rise of America's Opioid Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
DEA Agent Jack Riley, "[Chicago's] most famous federal agent since the days of The Untouchables" (-**Rolling Stone)**tells the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, and reveals the true causes of the American opioid epidemic.
Jack Riley, grandson...
A Swag of Memories
Australian Bush Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
A quintessential Australian bushman, Brian Taylor has spent most of his life on the land. Working as a drover, a stockman, a fencer, a shearer and a saddler, he has gathered a swag of stories over the years as he travelled way out past the Barcoo, along the dusty plains and beside the dry creek beds...
Indestructible
One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family--imprisoned by the Japanese--and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way.
From the knife fights and smuggling runs of his youth to his...
Rivals Unto Death
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
From the bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, the epic history of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry.
The famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr was the culmination of a story three...
Death in the Air
The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.
London was still recovering from the devastation...
The Voices of War
Australians Tell Their Stories From World War I to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Drawn from engagements ranging from World War I through to operations in East Timor and Iraq, these stories are taken from the Australians at War Film Archive, a collection of the memories of more than 2000 Australians who have served, both on the front line and at home. Some are unbelievably, unbearably...
Hammerhead Six
How Green Berets Waged an Unconventional War Against the Taliban to Win in Afghanistan's Deadly Pech Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Two years before the action in Lone Survivor, a team of Green Berets conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan's notorious Pech Valley. Led by Captain Ronald Fry, Hammerhead Six applied the principles of unconventional warfare to "win hearts and minds" and fight against...
Commandos
Heroic and Deadly ANZAC Raids in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Amazing revelations and extraordinary exploits of Australia's elite secret warriors.
There was something unique about Australians and New Zealanders in war that prompted World War II Allied commanders to turn to ANZAC soldiers, sailors and airmen to carry out the most dangerous and virtually...
Barney Greatrex
From Bomber Command to the French Resistance - the stirring story of an Australian hero
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter.
A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for RAF Bomber Command in 1941, eager to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack....
by Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Dutta Dutta
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
WHEN ANYONE WISHES TO SPEAK OF A GREAT RULER, THEY SAY, `A KING LIKE RAMA? All is well in the prosperous and orderly kingdom of Ayodhya until the greedy Queen Kaikeyi tricks King Dashratha into sending his beloved eldest son and heir apparent, Rama, into exile for fourteen years. The noble prince,...