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Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds by Peter FitzSimons 9781472128973
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's great epics - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.Commissioned by the Royal Navy... -
The Sydney Opera House Peter FitzSimons 9781472131379
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77If only these walls and this land could talk . . . The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Mahal and other... -
The Battle of Long Tan Peter FitzSimons 9780733646621
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle.4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious.5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating... -
Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.77'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one... -
The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's Greatest Explorer Peter FitzSimons 9781472131461
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50Sir 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... -
Monash's Masterpiece: The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world Peter FitzSimons 9781472129024
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.23The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WW1. A largely Australian force commanded by the brilliant John Monash, fought... -
The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison story in Australian and Irish history Peter FitzSimons 9781472131348
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.50The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history.New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the... -
Men Without Country: The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48'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... -
Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War by Al Murray 9781472284631
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run parallel with his comedy and was brought to the fore with several acclaimed and award-winning television... -
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a remote garrison and their battle against extraordinary odds. by Harrison Christian 9781761150067
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle.Written off by their government as 'hostages to fortune', the... -
Guts and Glory: Diggers, Sport and War by Peter Rees 9780733344220
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14From one of Australia's leading military historians and biographers, Peter Rees, comes Guts and Glory, an enthralling history of the way in which sport is ever present in the wars fought by, or... -
Saga Land: The Island Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.95'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history.This is Iceland as you've never read it... -
Shark Arm by Phillip Roope
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08It all started with a ruthless murder. An ex-boxer and petty police informer was efficiently disposed of, sending a ghastly warning to others. That would have been the end of it, had not a shark, in... -
The Revolution of Man by Phil Barker
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Compelling. What does it mean to be a man? Finally, we're talking about it. This book is the conversation we need to have-with each other, our sons and fathers.' Peter FitzSimons, bestselling author... -
Eleven Bats: A Story of Combat, Cricket and the SAS by Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of cricket was often the circuit-breaker Harry and his team needed after the tension of operations. He began a tradition... -
Shark Arm: A shark, a tattooed arm and two unsolved murders by Phillip Roope 9781761471759
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.57Shorlisted for the 2020 Ned Kelly Awards'The biggest tabloid shark story in the history of the world' - Peter FitzSimons'A truly gripping whodunnit which throws fresh light on one of Australia's most... -
The Titanic Story of Evelyn by Lisa Wilkinson 9780733653988
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59The never-before-told true story of a brave young nurse who was the only Australian survivor of the sinking of the Titanic.Evelyn Marsden was a young girl with big dreams. Born in the dusty... -
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie 9781760879198
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.44We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops are rushed...