Flight Command

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As a farm boy in western Victoria, John Oddie would watch RAAF jets pass overhead as he ploughed hay fields, wondering what it would be like to fly such a machine. Thirty-five years later – having flo …

Broken Nation

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The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined that nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac ‘legend’. But it was a …

The Forgotten General

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The Forgotten General highlights the courage, intelligence and determination of an exceptional New Zealander. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell was a distinguished soldier and a dedicated leader of men …

The Luck of the Irish

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The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That’s how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the New South Wales coast in 183 …

The Nullarbor Kid

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‘If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you had helped them when broken down, you would have been proud to be one of them and called them mates. …

Thunder Run

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Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second (‘Tusker’) Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghda …

Australians Volume 3

Australia emerged from WW1 into a decade of profound change, characterised by a revolution in behaviour amongst the young; by the first great age of consumerism; by the new and increasingly sophistica …

This Divided Island

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stu …

Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret

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This is the last untold story of Bletchley Park. Using declassified information, Paul Gannon gives us a gripping account of the invention of the world’s first true computer, Colossus.Uncover the secre …

First Footprints

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Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia’s northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic mammals roamed the p …

For the Sake of Argument

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The test of this kind of book is for the reader to be able to open it anywhere and be drawn into the argument; it’s a test that Hitchens passes time and time again… He can be devilishly funny, but h …

Prepared for the Worst

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‘I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive’ — Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as hav …

Unacknowledged Legislation

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A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics.Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley’s assertion that ‘poets are th …

Eureka!

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The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of …

Havel

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This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Václav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Have …

The Magic Lantern

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The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Ea …