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A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne by Andrew Markus; Margaret Taft
$36.00 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Australian History Ser.
They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution, and a genocide that pushed them to the brink of extinction. Melbourn ...Show more
A Soldier's Soldier : A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly by Jeffrey Grey
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: Australian Army History Series
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General Staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a significant re-organisation of the Army as he fought a war under political and resource restrictions. In t ...Show more
Born of Fire and Ash - Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000 by Craig Stockings (Editor)
$99.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: The\Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor Ser.
Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War, and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nes ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
From the Ruins of Colonialism - History as Social Memory by Chris Healy
$80.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
From the Ruins of Colonialism throws fresh light on the history of memory, forgetting and colonialism. Focusing on Australia, the book charts how film, public commemorations, history textbooks and museums have, in a strange ensemble, become something called Australian History. It considers key moments o ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
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