MILITARY
Secret and Special Will Davies RRP $ 34.99
Secret and Special is the untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations , the precursor to the elite SAS , and the extraordinary feats they undertook in the
Pacific during the Second World War .
Derrick VC in his own Words Mark Johnston RRP $ 39.99
Edited and annotated by Mark Johnston , this book provides unprecedented insights into the mind and the remarkable career of one of Australia ’ s most decorated and renowned servicemen .
Failures of Command : The death of Private Robert Poate Hugh Poate RRP $ 34.99
Compelling and enraging , this story of the disturbing facts surrounding the devastating loss of three soldiers in Afghanistan continues to reverberate beyond their families to the highest levels of the Australian Defence Force and Government .
Due May
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The Bomber Mafia Malcolm Gladwell RRP $ 35.00
The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence , innovation , and the incalculable wages of war , from the international author of Talking to Strangers and host of the award-winning podcast Revisionist History .
Due May
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Save Our Sons Carolyn Collins RRP $ 34.95
Set against a backdrop of percolating social change in Australia , Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the SOS movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War .
HISTORY
The Auschwitz Photographer Luca Crippa , Maurizio Onnis RRP $ 35.00
The Auschwitz Photographer is the extraordinary true story of Wilhelm Brasse , the Auschwitz prisoner whose photographs exposed the atrocities of the Holocaust and then helped to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials .
Plunder Menachem Kaiser RRP $ 32.99
Menachem Kaiser ’ s brilliantly told story is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaustsurvivor grandfather ’ s former battle to reclaim the family ’ s apartment building in Sosnowiec , Poland .
James Cook Peter FitzSimons RRP $ 34.99
Captain James Cook is an almost mythic figure who is often discussed , celebrated , reviled and debated . But who was the real James Cook ? Now , Peter FitzSimons reveals the man behind the myth . His passions and pursuits , failures and successes .
Radicals Nadia Wheatley , Meredith Burgmann RRP $ 39.99
In Radicals some of the people doing the changing in the sixties – including David Marr , Margret RoadKnight , Gary Foley , Jozefa Sobski and Geoffrey Robertson – reflect on how the decade changed them and Australian society forever .
Defiant Voices Babette Smith
RRP $ 49.99
OUR PRICE $ 44 99
Defiant Voices tells the story of the Crown trying and failing to make its prisoners subservient to a harsh penal system . Convict women challenged the authorities by living in perpetual disobedience , which was often flagrant , sometimes sexual and always loud .
Due May
5
Flash Jim Kel Richards RRP $ 32.99
Flash Jim is the astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux , writer of Australia ’ s first dictionary and first true-crime memoir . This book looks at the origins of Australian English , and our history of fabulous , disreputable characters .
Due May
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Smuggled Ruth Balint , Julie Kalman RRP $ 34.99
Smuggled recounts the journeys to Australia of refugees and their smugglers since the Second World War – from Jews escaping the Holocaust , ‘ boat people ’ fleeing the Vietnam War to refugees escaping the Middle East and Africa .
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