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Books narrated by Peter Stanley

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  • Oboe One, Tarakan, 1945

    An Australian Tragedy

    by Peter Stanley ...
    In 1945, the small island of Tarakan off Borneo's coast became the unlikely stage for one of the Second World War's most gruelling campaigns. As part of General Douglas MacArthur's plan to liberate the Netherlands Indies, Australian soldiers launched Operation Oboe One, a mission to capture Tarakan’s airstrip. What was meant to last three weeks stretched into two months of bitter jungle warfare, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Simpson's Donkey

    by Peter Stanley ...
    Based on the most famous animal in Australian history Simpson's Donkey tells the story of his service during the Gallipoli campaign where for three weeks he was one of several donkeys that Simpson used to carry wounded men down to Anzac Cove. His life before and after Gallipoli is a mystery but Peter Stanley beautifully imagines the rest for the reader.Stanley tells the donkey's story--in the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Most Terrible Night

    Allonville 1918: The AIF's Most Costly Shell Burst

    by Peter Stanley ...
    ‘Peter Stanley has brilliantly brought to life what seems like a small wartime incident, demonstrating its effects on the participants at the time and for decades later. This is woven insightfully into the bigger story of the Anzac narrative and its legacy for Australia.’— Daniel Reynaud, author, The Man the Anzacs Revered and Faith of the AnzacsThey survived Gallipoli, Pozières, Bullecourt and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Burn For Me [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Hidden Legacy 1

    Series series Hidden Legacy

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    In this spellbinding first dramatized audiobook in #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews’ urban fantasy Hidden Legacy series, private detective Nevada Baylor navigates her way through an alternate world where dynasties, built on inherited wealth and magic, guide the course of humanity.Nevada Baylor runs a small-time detective agency in Houston, Texas, busting scammers, exposing ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Commando to Colditz

    by Peter Stanley ...
    A compelling, riveting read, Commando to Colditz is an unusual perhaps unique war story. It is centred around a most unusual war hero: Michael 'Micky' Burn, soldier, poet and novelist, whose journey from fascist follower, to commander of Six Troop, to Commando, to prisoner (and communist lecturer) in the notorious prison of Colditz forms the focal point of this powerful narrative. In 1942 Micky ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Lynchpin [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Rylee Adamson Epilogues 4

    Series series Rylee Adamson Epilogues

    Unabridged

    5 hours 8 min

    My name is Alex, and I am a werewolf.As a boy, I was trapped halfway between human and wolf. Rylee rescued me and I became the first outcast to join her pack.In the Battle Against Orion, I sacrificed my life for hers and became the pillar which holds the Veil separating the human world and the supernatural world, closed. I kept the demons from spilling into the human world and left Rylee and our ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lost Boys of Anzac

    by Peter Stanley ...
    Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But does anyone know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war? Peter Stanley goes looking for the lost boys of Anzac: the men of the very first wave to land at dawn on 25 April 1915 and who died on that day. There were exactly ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Broken Years

    Australian military history in 1000 books

    by Peter Stanley ...
    What does Australia' s military history reveal about us? In Beyond the Broken Years – fifty years after Bill Gammage' s acclaimed The Broken Years was published – provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it' s vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created, by whom, how and with what consequences. Stanley explores military history and the storytellers – ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sherrin

    A bloody battle on and off the field

    by Peter Stanley ...
    The island of New Aachen is a hotbed of turmoil, with more than just the enemy in the firing line.In May 1945, as Europe celebrates the end of WWII, the Pacific theatre remains a brutal battleground. On the remote Pacific Island of New Aachen, the site of a massacre of Australian troops three years prior, tensions run high.David Wachter, a veteran turned war historian clerk, joins a group of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Bad Characters

    by Peter Stanley ...
    Australians have celebrated the Anzacs for nearly a century--but what do we really know of what war did to them? Charles Bean, historian of the citizen soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force, wrote that its history spanned 'the good and the bad'--but so far Australians have only looked at the good.Leading war historian Peter Stanley reveals the citizen soldiers the army regarded as its 'bad ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Invading Australia: Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

    Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

    by Peter Stanley ...
    1942 was a key year in Australia's history. As its people had so long feared, White Australia, an outpost of empire, seemed about to be invaded by the Japanese. In that one year, Darwin was bombed, submarines torpedoed ships in Sydney Harbour and Australian Militiamen died on the Kokoda Trail.Each year, more and more Australians celebrate Anzac Day and honour the lives of those who fought for ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Hul! Hul!

    The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855

    by Peter Stanley ...
    If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal "Hul" (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army's infantry was committed and in which at least 10,000 Santals died-has been forgotten. While its memory lived among Santals, British officers ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD