Reader's Feast - Australian History

Darwin Spitfires
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Anthony Cooper

It is only in more recent years that we are learning the full extent of the threat to Australia during WWII. This story of what followed the Japanese air raids of 1942 and the role played by the RAAF Fighter Wing adds to our knowledge of the period.

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The Enemy at Home
Price: AUD 44.95 Author: Nadine Helmi & Gerhard Fischer

In 2004 Nadine Helmi discovered a treasure trove of photographs at Trial Bay Gaol Museum. With scant information she traced them to Paul Dubotzki, a Bavarian photographer who in 1915, aged in his early 20s, was arrested as an enemy alien and sent to the South Australian internment camp at Torrens Island. Dubotzki's striking photographs - taken at three different camps - form the basis of this book and provide a truly remarkable account of what life was like for more than 6000 people who were interned in Australia during WWI.

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Boat People
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Carina Hoang

At a time when boat people are constantly in the news, this book serves as a reminder of an earlier wave of refugees - the Vietnamese men, women and children who fled their homeland during the 70s and 80s to seek new lives elsewhere. Filled with photos and removable facsimile documents, this volume seeks to capture the personal stories and experiences of these individuals as they set about building new lives. It is the work of a woman who was one of those Vietnamese refugees and who was, with her family, accepted for resettlement in the United States but now resides in Western Australia.

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The Protectors
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Stephen Gray

Stephen Gray explains that part of his motivation for writing this book was to deepen his self-awareness. This admission will, hopefully, allow people of all opinions to think again about the apology to the Stolen Generations and what it really meant to our nation and how we move into the future.

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