Just Tassie Books

An Australian history book for children... It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen.

When Bob Chappell disappeared from his yacht, moored in the Derwent Estuary near the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's marina, on the 26 January 2009, his partner of 18 years, Sue Neill-Fraser would soon become the only suspect in Chappell's disappearance.

This is volume two of a narrative about three emmigrant Gray / Grey families and their new lives in their chosen home of Van Diemen's Land in the late 1830s, including the reasons which propelled each one into such a momentous change.

The enemy must not get the Messines Ridge at any price … So read the orders to German troops defending the vital high ground south of Ypres. On 7 June 1917, the British Second Army launched its attack with an opening like no other. In the largest secret operation of WWI, British and Commonwealth mining companies placed over a million pounds of explosive beneath the German front-line positions in 19 giant mines which erupted like a volcano. This was just the beginning.