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An Awkward Truth
By: Grose, Peter
Published by: Allen & Unwin
The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942.
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Price: $26.35
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Backs to the Wall
By: Mitchell, G.D; Macklin, Robert
Published by: Allen & Unwin
Originally published in 1937 (and long out of print), this is a gripping, first hand account of a young soldier's experiences in France and Belgium during the First World War.
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Price: $23.95
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Batavia's Graveyard
By: Dash, Mike
Published by: Crown Publishing Group
From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia’s Graveyard , the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company’s flagship, was loaded with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java.
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Price: $15.95
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The Battle at Ngok Tavak
By: Davies, Bruce
Published by: Allen & Unwin
This is the story of the three Australians, members of AATTV, who commanded and led a company of Nungs in the western jungle of Vietnam near Laos to report on the 2nd NVA Division. After joining forces with an American Marine artillery detachment they were attacked by the North Vietnamese in what was to become a bloody battle for both sides.
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Becoming Sinners
By: Robbins, Joel
Published by: University of California Press
In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities.
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A Bend in the Yarra
By: Clark, Ian; Heydon, Toby
Published by: Aboriginal Studies Press
The Yarra Bend Park marks one of the most important post-contact places in the Melbourne metropolitan area, and is of great significance to Victorian Aboriginal people, particularly the Wurundjeri Aboriginal community. At this site was located the Merri Creek Aboriginal School, the Merri Creek Protectorate Station, the Native Police Corps Headquarters and associated Aboriginal burials.
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Price: $22.00
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Beneath the Dardanelles
By: Basarin, Vecihi; Basarin, Hatice
Published by: Allen & Unwin
AE2 's daring passage through the Dardanelles on 25 April 1915 is a success story of the Gallipoli campaign. Ordered to ‘run amuck', for five days AE2 avoided capture before being scuttled after a skirmish with the Turkish torpedo boat Sultanhisar . This book is based on the memoirs of the captains of AE2 and Sultanhisar .
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Price: $19.95
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Bills of Rights in Australia
By: Byrnes, Andrew; Charlesworth, Hilary; Gabrielle, McKinnon
Published by: University of New South Wales Press
We accept the universal right to live in freedom and without oppression, but are our human rights adequately protected by Australian law? Arguments about the need for a bill of rights in Australia have simmered for fifty years. While attempts to introduce a national bill of rights have failed, recently the states and territories have taken on a pioneering role with statutory bills. Bills of Rights in Australia, written by the leading experts in the field, examines the arguments for and against greater protection of human rights. Original and timely, it examines the emerging evidence of the impact of these uniquely Australian bills of rights.
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The Black Diggers
By: Hall, Robert
Published by: Aboriginal Studies Press
This book explores the war effort of Aboriginal and Islander Australians during the Second World War and the reasons their contribution has gone unrecognised for so long. This is a comprehensive account of the work black Australians during the years when their country faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese. Despite suspicion and prejudice, they earned a place within the digger legend.
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Bondi Badlands
By: Callaghan, Greg
Published by: Allen & Unwin
A grittily compelling look at a series of brutal murders that took place in Sydney's eastern beachside suburbs in the 1980s - this is the extraordinary story of the crimes, the victims, the gangs and the policeman who refused to close the case.
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