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MILITARY
UNNECESSARY WARS
Henry Reynolds
RRP $29.99
ENEMY
Australian governments find it easy to go to war, then
their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm
conscience. In Unnecessary Wars Henry Reynolds shows
how the Boer War left a dark and dangerous legacy,
demonstrating how those beliefs have propelled us into too
many unnecessary wars without ever counting the cost.
Ruth Clare
RRP $32.99
Weaving a striking personal narrative with a
revelatory exploration of the effects of war, Enemy
is a bold, compelling and ultimately triumphant
memoir from a hugely impressive new Australian
writer.
ANZAC DAY THEN AND NOW
Tom Frame
RRP $39.99
Peter Stanley, Jeffrey Grey, Carolyn Holbrook, Ken Inglis, Tom
Frame and others explore the rise of Australia’s unofficial
national day. Does Anzac Day honour those who died
pursuing noble causes in war? Or is it part of a campaign
to redeem the savagery associated with armed conflict?
FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY
Anthony Hill
RRP $35.00
For Love of Country is a sweeping family saga
recreated from historical archives. An impeccably
researched portrait of the Eddisons, a soldiersettler family who sacrificed everything for war,
from the award-winning author of Billy Young.
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT
Kim Barker
RRP $27.99
This is a true-life Catch-22 set in the war-torn countries
of Afghanistan and Pakistan written by Kim Barker,
one of the region’s longest-serving correspondents.
Swift, funny, and wholly original, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
captures the absurdity and tragedy of our modern wars.
A DOG CALLED HOPE
Damien Lewis
Jason Morgan
RRP $32.99
When Special Ops soldier Jason Morgan was left
crippled by a mission that went wrong, his wife left
him and overnight he became a paraplegic father
with three young boys to raise. This is the story of how
Napal, his black Labrador service
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dog enabled Jason to rebuild his
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life, reconnect with his family and
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find true peace.
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OUR VIETNAM NURSES
Annabelle Brayley
RRP $34.99
From the bestselling author of Bush Nurses and
Nurses of the Outback comes this collection of
compelling and moving stories of our heroic nurses in
the Vietnam War.
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FABULOUS HISTORY TITLES AT GREAT PRICES
LOST BOYS OF ANZAC
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE COLD WAR DADDY?
Peter Stanley
RRP $34.99
Ann Curthoys
Joy Damousi
RRP $34.99
The Lost Boys of ANZAC were the first Australians killed at
Gallipoli. This book traces who these men
were and why they came to volunteer for
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the AIF in 1914.
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Sifting through the key political and social developments
in Australia from the end of World War II to
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the early 1990s, this book is a powerful
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and poignant telling of the ways in which
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the political is personal.
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MENZIES AT WAR
DIRTY SECRETS: OUR ASIO FILES
Anne Henderson
RRP $34.99
Meredith Burgmann
RRP $32.99
This book focuses on the period between 1941 and
1949. During this time Menzies developed the leadership
qualities that made him so successful.
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Menzies At War was shortlisted for The
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Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.
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Well-known Australian mavericks, activists, movers and
shakers reflect on their own ASIO files. In this moving,
funny and sometimes chilling book,
leading Australians open their ASIO
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files and read what the state’s security
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apparatus said about them.
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