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  • The Light on the Hill

    An Updated History of the Australian Labor Party

    de Ross McMullin ...
    A revised and updated edition of award-winning historian Ross McMullin’s acclaimed history of the Australian Labor Party — an entertaining, action-packed, warts-and-all narrative full of illuminating pen-portraits and vivid anecdotes.The story is told through the people who made it. All Labor’s prime ministers feature — Watson, Fisher, Hughes, Scullin, Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke, Keating, ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Life So Full of Promise

    further biographies of Australia’s lost generation

    de Ross McMullin ...
    WINNER OF THE 2024 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONAcclaimed historian and biographer Ross McMullin has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in this sequel to Farewell, Dear People, the winner of multiple awards including the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History.Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Pompey Elliott at War

    in his own words

    de Ross McMullin ...
    Hundreds of Australian first-person narratives of World War I have been published, but none more riveting than this one.The wartime letters and diaries of Pompey Elliott, Australia’s most famous fighting general, are exceptionally forthright. They are also remarkably illuminating about his volatile emotions. Pompey not only wrote frankly about what happened to him and the men he was commanding; he ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • So Monstrous A Travesty

    Chris Watson and the world's first national Labor government

    de Ross McMullin ...
    A century ago, Australia led the world in progressive social initiatives. Admiring visitors crossed the globe to inspect this advanced social laboratory. Chris Watson’s 1904 ministry, the culmination of Australian Labor’s astonishingly rapid rise, was the first national Labor government in the world.This book is the story of that pioneering government.Its accomplished prime minister, little known ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Farewell, Dear People

    biographies of Australia’s lost generation

    de Ross McMullin ...
    WINNER OF THE 2013 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR AUSTRALIAN HISTORYWINNER OF THE 2012 MANNING CLARK HOUSE NATIONAL CULTURAL AWARDCOMMENDED FOR THE FAW EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION AWARDFor Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Pompey Elliott

    de Ross McMullin ...
    Pompey Elliott was a remarkable Australian. During the Great War he was a charismatic, controversial, and outstandingly successful military leader. An accomplished tactician and ‘the bravest of the brave’, he was renowned for never sending anyone anywhere he was not prepared to go himself. As a result, no Australian general was more revered by those he led or more famous outside his own command.A ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

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    Australians in the Great War

    de Joan Beaumont ...
    The Australian experience of war in all its complexity - from the homefront as well as the battlefront - as the men and women who experienced it chose to understand and remember it.Winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History.The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli ... Leer más

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  • The Australian Victories In France In 1918 [Illustrated Edition]

    de Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash ...
    Contains 9 maps and 30 photo illustrationsThe Australian Corps gained a towering reputation as a fighting force during the First World War; firm in defence and nigh-on unstoppable in attack. Their men were all volunteers who had travelled from the furthest reaches of the Empire to serve in Europe; following on from the badly managed campaign at Gallipoli the Australians formed a heterogeneous ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Gallipoli Sniper

    The Remarkable Life of Billy Sing

    de John Hamilton ...
    'This is a well-researched, detailed and compelling story.' - Defender Magazine

Billy Sing was a small, dark man – and a deadly killer. When, as a member of the Australian Imperial Force 5th Light Horse, he was thrust onto the narrow strip of land held by the Australians on Gallipoli, he witnessed the terrible effects of the Turkish snipers and decided to fight fire with fire. Using a simple Lee ... Leer más

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  • Boganaire

    The Rise and Fall of Nathan Tinkler

    de Paddy Manning ...
    In this impressive biography, freshly updated, leading business writer Paddy Manning tells the story of Tinkler's meteoric rise to wealth, and captures the drama of his equally rapid downfall.From blue collar to billionaire . . .Hunter Valley mine electrician Nathan Tinkler borrowed big in 2005, invested in coal and by 2011 was a billionaire. He had gambled on a rising market and won. He lived the ... Leer más

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  • Pozieres

    the Anzac story

    de Scott Bennett ...
    In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozières. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task.At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands of Australians stormed Pozières. Forty-five days later they were relieved, having suffered 23,000 casualties ... Leer más

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  • An Outback Nurse

    de Thea Hayes ...
    The charming story of a young city nurse who found love in the outback.Thea Hayes trained as a Nurse in Sydney in 1959. A year later she was catapulted out of the safety of her city life into the unknown world of the Outback.Thea knew nothing of the place she was soon to call home, Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, the second largest property in the world under one management. It ... Leer más

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