Stories of the first air crossing of Bass Strait - between mainland Australia and Tasmania - and those who followed Lieutenant Long making it possible for regular air services to be established across Bass Strait. James R. Boag structures this book as a year-by-year chronicle of key events in Bass Strait aviation history, from 1914 to 1956, including aviation disasters.
Patsy Adam-Smith collects the stories and traditions of Australia's railway workers — a subject close to her own upbringing as the child of Victorian railway workers, and one she returned to throughout her writing career. This was one of her earliest books, published not long after she left Hobart.
The unit history of the 51st Battalion A.I.F., written by Neville Browning and published in 2007. The 51st Battalion was raised in South Australia and Western Australia in 1916 and served on the Western Front as part of the 13th Brigade, 4th Division AIF — the same brigade as the 52nd Battalion — seeing action at Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Villers-Bretonneux and through the Hundred Days Offensive to the armistice in November 1918.

