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Australia's Empire
Price: $99.95 Author: Deryck M. Schreuder & Stuart Ward

One in a series of books from Oxford University Press, this book attempts to define the Australian experience of British imperial influence. It is sometimes easy to forget that a relatively few short years ago, many white Australians looked to England as

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North to Matsumae: Australian Whalers to Japan
Price: $39.95 Author: Noreen Jones

Two Australian maritime stories lie at the core of this exploration of Australian-Japanese relations and the various opinions held on the practice by Japan of whaling. The ships - Lady Rowena and Eamont - give an historical framework for the author to inv

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The Men Of The Line
Price: $45.00 Author: Pattie Wright

The 'men' of the title areAustralians and the 'line' is the Thai-Burma railway. This is the story of the survivors, those prisoners of war who unexpectedly found themselves enslaved and building a railway for the Japanese Emperor and who could subsequentl

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Strangers in a Foreign Land
Price: $26.95 Author: Maggie MacKellar

Another quality collaboration between The Miegunyagh Press and State Library of Victoria, the journal of Niel Black of the Western District allows us to delve into the world as it was for this early settler and his companions in their new land.

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Breaking The Bank
Price: $35.00 Author: Carol Baxter

The largest documented bank robbery in Australian history happened in 1828 at Sydney's Bank of Australia. Note it was not the people's bank - the Bank of New South Wales - but rather the gentlemen's bank. Therein lies the reason for the speed with which a

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Forgotten Anzacs: The Campaign In Greece, 1941
Price: $59.95 Author: Peter Ewer

Twenty-six years on from Gallipoli, General Thomas Blamey invoked the spirit of the Anzacs and led both Australian and New Zealand troops into a battle that would resonate strongly with the earlier, defining moment in our shared history.

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Subterrain: The Housing Issue
Price: $5.00 Author: Ozanam Community

This extraordinary collection of poems, interviews, stories and lyrics by and about homeless and marginalised Melburnians ranges from topics such as the positive impact of the arts in their lives to the woefully inadequate nature of crisis accommodation. Subterrain is a truly inspirational and enlightening read.

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Australia in Maps
Price: $59.95 Author: NLA

This book introduces readers to the National Library of Australia's vast collection of over 600, 000 maps of Australia, countries of the world, the oceans and the skies.

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The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police
Price: $39.95 Author: Jonathan Richards

This will no doubt add to the controversy of the recent 'history wars'. The author documents the Queensland Police Force's beginnings, with Aboriginal troopers led by white oficers. It is a confronting look at the brutal killing of many Aboriginal people and the dispossession of Aboriginal people from their land.

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Van Diemen's Land: A History
Price: $45.00 Author: James Boyce

Imagine a new land. Imagine being greeted by an abundance of all that you require to live, with fresh water and meat, reliable rainfall, and vast tracks of land to settle. The first settlers to the remote island, Van Diemen's Land, found all of these things. Boyce puts forward a new view on this settlement but one that nonetheless takes account of the impact of that settlement on the original inhabitants.

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Gunyah Goondie & Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia
Price: $90.00 Author: Paul Memmott

This book is...for students of Aboriginal cultures, and for ethnographers, anthropologists, architects, archaeologists, human geographers, historians, environmental psychologists - in fact for all Australians - but, most importantly for Aboriginal people

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Fromelles
Price: $49.95 Author: Patrick Lindsay

Lindsay goes in search of our missing diggers in France, the 15,000 men ordered to go over the top and attack the German lines.

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Museum
Price: $79.95 Author: Stacey and Hay

In 1798 Alexander Macleay took over the role of secretary of the Linnean Society of London; a society intent on the cultivation of the science of natural history. This same Macleay would go on to become the most diligent collector of Australian specimens.

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Vietnam: The Australian War
Price: $55.00 Author: Paul Ham

In Paul Ham's words, this politician's war sealed the fate of 50,000 Australian servicemen and women. His book is their story. Extensive research, and his journalistic skills, ensure this book will be regarded as a definitive history of the Australian War

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Vintage Melbourne
Price: $34.95 Author: Peter Fischer & Susan Marsden

Staff Review by Mary: An unashamed Melburnian, I found this book to be such an understated and thereby forceful homage to the visionary architects who built Melbourne and the contemporary keepers of this legacy. From the simple to the ornate, the building

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Vietnam Years
Price: $35.00 Author: Michael Caulfield

This is an Australian journey; a journey from innocence to bitterness and then on to recognition of the true cost and aftermath of such conflicts.

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Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia
Price: $44.95 Author: John Fitzgerald

The author exposes the original fantasy on which the White Australia Policy was based and, in so doing, calls into question any attempt to revive it. The notion that the Chinese did not belong here is the 'white lie' of the title.

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Hitler Club
Price: $29.95 Author: Gumpl and Kleinig

'The Hitler Club' was the name coined by Australian security operatives for Dr. Johannes Becker and the people in his life. Becker settled in South Australia in 1925 and would go on to achieve infamy as Hitler's Confidential Agent.

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Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Cobb & Co.
Price: $32.95 Author: Sam Everingham

In 1853, a young American arrived in Victoria hoping to make his fortune from the gold rush. He soon realised that the real money was to be made from travel and established a coach company that would carry his name into every household in the land: Cobb &

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Swing By, Sailor
Price: $32.95 Author: Catherine Dyson

The story of 600 Australian war brides who sailed to England in 1946 only to face the coldest winter for 15 years and stricter rationing than they had experienced during the war years.

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A Very Rude Awakening
Price: $32.95 Author: Peter Grose

In May of 1942, the war seemed very far away to most Sydneysiders - until the night the three Japanese submarines entered the harbour.

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The Argus: Life & Death of a Newspaper
Price: $39.95 Author: -

The Argus newspaper, published from 1846 to 1957, remains a most significant record of Victorian history. The stories in this book are a collection of memories from Argus journalists, photographers, press artists, printing and office staff, who worked on

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Wooden Wonders: Victoria's Timber Bridges
Price: $49.95 Author: Don Chambers

This book is at once a narrative of timber bridge history, an exploration of the development of road and rail transport, a showcase of Australian design ingenuity, and a regional Victorian tour guide.

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The Scarlet Thread
Price: $29.95 Author: Maurice Gurvich & Christopher Wray

On Friday 4 March 1892 newspaper readers in Melbourne were greeted by the headline: "Diabolical Murder: A women's body found under heathstone". Over the next three months, events unfolded that riveted the attention of newspaper readers around the world. M

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Darkest Hour
Price: $39.95 Author: Bruce Gamble

An account of the 1500 men and six nurses who were deployed to the southwest Pacioc during WWII in order to fortify the island of Rabaul, capital of Australia�s mandated territories. Details the surprise invasion by the Japanese in January 1942, and the

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A History of Victoria
Price: $36.95 Author: Geoffrey Blainey

Blainey - author of A Short History of the World and The Tyranny of Distance - brings us a history of the state of Victoria. Now released in paperback.

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Burn: The Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia
Price: $35.00 Author: Paul Collins

With the start of every bushfire season and the first threatening hints of burning eucalypt in the air, we are reminded, no matter where we live, that bushfire is an inescapable reality in this country. Drawing on the accounts of the most devastating conf

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Quarterly Essay 23: The History Question: Who Owns the Past?
Price: $14.95 Author: Inga Clendinnen

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The Great War
Price: $55.00 Author: Les Carlyon

This is Carlyon's extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. It combines an overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago.

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