Australia & New Zealand

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995143142Author Richard ShawFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm)...

'Intelligent, beautifully written' The Times'Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author' Stella Magazine'Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined' Lancashire Evening PostOceania, 1879. For two years the Peacocks,...

Falkland Islanders were the first British people to come under enemy occupation since the Channel Islanders during the Second World War. This book tells how islanders' warnings were ignored in London, how their slim defences gave way to a massive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641873Author Edward WittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648355281Author Marcus FieldingFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Superscript PublishingWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473610005Author Mark Sydney PaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Glosson PublishingPublisher Glosson Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786867875Author Sian ReesFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Hyperion BooksPublisher Hyperion BooksWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 168mm * 22mm

Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived.The son of pioneer pastoralists in South Australia, Hubert studied engineering before moving on to photography. In 1908 he sailed for England and a job producing films with the...

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and...

A fascinating new insight into the Falklands Conflict, covering every aspect of its origins and the political and diplomatic response to the Argentinean action as well as illuminating accounts of the military action to retake the islands, at every level...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845861599Author Malcolm ArchibaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press LtdDimensions(mm) 155mm * 229mm *...

The myth of Anzac has been one of Australia's most enduring. The belief in the superior fighting qualities of Australia's soldiers in the First World War is part of the national consciousness, and the much touted 'special' relationship between Britain...

The myth of Anzac has been one of Australia's most enduring. The belief in the superior fighting qualities of Australia's soldiers in the First World War is part of the national consciousness, and the much touted 'special' relationship between Britain...

In 1983, two University Professors looked slightly bemused as they scanned the shelves of the South Wales Miners' Library. One said to the other, 'Do miners read Dickens?' We seek to answer that question, and a little more besides. This special fortieth...

'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me happily captive to the very last page.' - Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Men Without...

Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some...

In Come the Revolution, journalist Alex Mitchell gives a rollicking account of life in newspapers and his radical past as a Trotskyist. From the cut-throat era of Sydney tabloids, he graduated to Fleet Street as an investigative reporter, taking part in...

'Utterly gripping. It reads like a thriller.'JON FAINEThis edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication.Investigative journalist Frank Walker's MARALINGA is a...

Come On Shore and We Will Kill And Eat You All is a sensitive and vibrant portrayal of the cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris, from Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 to the author's unlikely romance with a Maori man. An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425243077Author Deborah J. SwissFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 373g

The campaign to re-take the Falkland Islands in 1982, was one of the most remarkable episodes in the long history of British overseas adventures. Nearly all the books that have appeared in the ensuing years have dealt with the campaign itself. Nicholas...

This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. This title covers a wide range of subjects, including...

The award-winning, definitive account of Australia's most notorious cold case, now fully updated with new information Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True CrimeOn 4 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen set out on foot through the wintry streets of Sydney's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730390275Author Larissa BehrendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams)...

Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833058973Author John F. SchankFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint RANDPublisher RAND

A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life. But two years later he was "back from the dead" and in New...

On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most...

In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994617453Author Isobell McConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Meredian Pictures & WordsPublisher Meredian Pictures & WordsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Age Book of the Year 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781863956000Author James BoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813046Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534087Author Bruce PascoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm

Australia has historically had very strong links with England, and the English have always accounted for a significant portion of the Australian population. In this 2004 book, James Jupp provides fascinating insights into the impact the English have had...

Stories and yarns about my favourite bits of Down Under Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863514101Author Lynette Ramsay SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Sally Milner Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761041761Author Garry LinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730395454Author Alex McDermottFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed...