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Battle on 42nd Street: The Anzacs' Gruesome Last Stand in Crete by Peter Monteath
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust? The Battle of Crete was one of the most spectacular military campaigns of the twentieth century. For the first time in history, German forces carried out an invasion entirely from the air while poorly equipped Anzac and Bri ...Show more
Captured Lives: Australia's Wartime Internment Camps by Peter Monteath
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Captured Lives peers behind the barbed wire drawn around people deemed threats to Australia's security during the two world wars. Civilians from enemy nations, even if born in Australia, were subjects of suspicion and locked away in internment camps. Prisoners-of-war were shipped from the other side of ...Show more
Escape Artist: The incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck by Peter Monteath
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break - an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete. Astoundingly, this was only the first of many escapes. ...Show more
Flight to Fame: Victory in the 1919 Great Air Race, England to Australia by Ross Smith; Peter Monteath (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military
'Flight to Fame', a classic adventure story, tells the hair-raising tale of the world-first flight from England to Australia, in the words of the pilot, (Sir) Ross Smith. In March 1919, Australia's prime minister announced a prize of £10,000 for the first successful flight from Great Britain to Austral ...Show more
Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose by Peter Monteath
$39.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors. More than any other injustice, the abuse of Aborigines leads him into the Communist Party i ...Show more
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