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  • Gallipoli

    A Ridge Too Far

    For the first time showcasing a unique and extensive range of Australian War Memorial photographs, Gallipoli: a Ridge too far describes the pivotal events of that momentous year as they affected all the countries involved. The book combines fresh perspectives from the worlds leading authorities, including Turkish and German historians, together with soldiers letters and diary accounts. In early ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Gotta Love This Country!

    Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest

    A celebration of chest puffing goodness and kindness from around the country written in inimitable Peter FitzSimon's style.You gotta love this country when an AFL legend takes his mum instead of his girlfriend to the Brownlow, when an Australian cricket captain joins a bunch of fourteen year olds for a bit of street cricket, when a bloke wins the Australian Marbles Championship after being ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Flying Kangaroo

    Great Untold Stories of Qantas...The Heroic, the Hilarious and the Sometimes Just Plain Strange

    by Jim Eames ...
    Brings to full and rich life the extraordinary characters, events and challenges that have made Qantas an Australian icon.From its earliest days, Qantas has attracted its fair share of unusual challenges and unique characters. These are the stories of a great airline and the people who made it, told by a man who has Qantas blood running through his veins. They are hilarious, nostalgic, heroic and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Australian Outback Police Stories

    by Bill Marsh ...
    Series series Great Australian Stories
    Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES.'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...'Boasting the biggest beats in the world -- some as large as France -- Australia's outback police have seen it all: natural ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Zealand's Great War

    New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War

    This book is a collection of essays arising out of the Zealandias Great War conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealands involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Nek

    A Gallipoli Tragedy

    Series Book 1 - Anzac Battles Series
    One of the greatest tragedies in Australian military history occurred at Gallipoli on 7 August 1915, when hundreds of Australian light horsemen were repeatedly ordered to charge the massed rifles and machine-guns of the Turkish enemy. It was a hopeless endeavour, and the resulting bloodbath has horrified every generation since and been the subject of considerable scrutiny by historians. The charge ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • No Better Death

    The Great War Diaries and Letters of William G. Malone

    Edited by Crawford, John ...
    Perhaps the greatest leader of men during the Gallipoli campaign, Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Malone was commanding officer of New Zealand’s Wellington Battalion at Gallipoli. Renowned for his humanity and his superb leadership, he played a key role in the successful assault on Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915, but was killed later that day. No Better Death reproduces Malone’s impressive and often moving ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Long Shots

    The greatest underdog stories in New Zealand sport

    Kiwis adore underdogs. We never cheer louder than when the long-shot outsider charges in from nowhere to blitz the field, or the written-off veteran finds redemption. This book celebrates some of the most inspiring against-the-odds stories in New Zealand sport.From the famous to the forgotten, from the Carterton Showgrounds to the Stadio Olimpico, the tales within are a tribute to determination, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Fromelles and Pozières

    In the Trenches of Hell

    THE NATIONAL BESTSELLEROn 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial describes as 'the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history.Just days later, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Gallipoli

    A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the German side, its ultimate objective was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey, thus ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Gallipoli

    John Masefield’s Gallipoli recollects the infamous five-month campaign between the Ottoman forces and the Allied troops during the First World War. The Ottoman victory over the campaign led to the eventual battle for Turkish independence eight years later.Masefield’s recollection is particularly unique because it was written and published just after the end of the battle, and focuses on military ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Joe's Fruit Shop & Milk Bar

    A captivating true story that will speak to generations of Australians, from the author of Mezza Italiana.'Nonno Anni gives me a nudge. "You know, when I first came to Australia, I knew that my life would change forever."'Leaving the small village of Fossa in Italy in 1939 to meet a father he barely remembered in a place that was far from everything he knew, fifteen-year-old Annibale Boccabella ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD