Told from the heart by the Searle brothers' great-nephew, award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins using the letters and journals of the Searle brothers and remembrances of other family members, Crack Hardy is a compelling book that defines Australia and Australians during the making of our nation on the far-flung battlefields of the First World War.
The true story of murder on HMAS Australia. During WWII a sailor is killed, the suspects are part of a rumoured homosexual group on board the flagship. What followed was one of the most controversial events in the history of the Royal Australian Navy and triggered unprecedented legal and political events.
Destroyer Man is the naval and World War Two memoir of Commander John Alliston of HMS Decoy and HMAS Warramunga; after the war, the author and his wife Eleanor moved to Three Hummock Island in Bass Strait off the coast of North West Tasmania. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
The original edition of Peter Henning's history of Australia's 2/40th Battalion (comprising mainly Tasmanians) and its hopeless task in the early days of the Pacific War and the grim tale of the fate of the survivors of combat with the Japanese forces on Timor in 1942. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
Home from War tells the stories of a group of first world war veterans and their families who settled in the Launceston suburb of Newstead under the War Service Homes Scheme. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
On 1 January 1915, ramifications from the First World War, raging half a world away, were felt in Broken Hill, Australia, when in a guerrilla-style military operation, four citizens were killed and seven wounded.