Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
Code Breakers
Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan....
The Cruel Legacy
The HMAS Voyager Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
'Voyager's bow has been detached from her stern' was the laconic phone message left for the RAN's public relations officer' on the night of 10 February 1964.
During naval exercises off the coast at Jervis Bay, the destroyer HMAS Voyager inexplicably turned towards the RAN Flagship, HMAS Melbourne,...
Tarakan
An Australian tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
In 1945, 240 Australians died taking the small Borneo island of Tarakan from the Japanese. The tragedy of Tarakan was that by the time they succeeded, they need not have begun.
Peter Stanley explores that battle, what it was like and what it means to us over fifty years on. He traces the operation...
Waltzing Matilda
The secret history of Australia's favourite song
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by our most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as our most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, violence and a triangular love affair. Written at a pivotal time in Australia's...
by Lonely Planet, Paul Harding, Cristian Bonetto
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet's Pocket Brisbane & the Gold Coast is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Thrill on the rides, waterslides and movie sets of the Gold...
Every hill got a story
We grew up in country
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Every hill got a story is the first comprehensive history of Central Australia’s Aboriginal people, as told in their own words and many languages.Nyinanyi ngurangka being on country is not a ‘lifestyle choice’ but a hard-won right, a spiritual and cultural duty, a constant battle, a...
THE NEW ZEALANDERS AT GALLIPOLI - An Account of the New Zealand Forces during the Gallipoli Campaign
THE NEW ZEALANDERS AT GALLIPOLI - An Account of the New Zealand Forces during the Gallipoli Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
"The New Zealanders at Gallipoli," was researched and compiled by Major Fred Waite (21 August 1885 – 29 August 1952), D.S.O., N.Z.E., C.M.G., V.D., who served with the main body and the N.Z. & A. Division as a Staff Officer of Engineers during the Great War. During the Second World...
by Kay Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Who were the female convicts? What kinds of lives did they lead in a new society half a world away from home?
Convict Women looks beyond the conventional images to draw a new and often surprising picture of convict women's experiences in a strange and harsh country. Beginning with the story...
Mateship
a very Australian history
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
A ‘mate’ is a mate, right? Wrong, argues Nick Dyrenfurth in this provocative new look at one of Australia’s most talked-about beliefs.
In the first book-length exploration of our secular creed, one of Australia’s leading young historians and public commentators turns mateship’s history...
Vandemonian War
The Secret History of Britain’s Tasmanian Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Governments and others succeeded in burying the real story of the Vandemonian War for nearly two centuries. And historians failed to see through the myths and lies until now. This is the story of how the British truly occupied Van Diemen’s Land, deploying regimental soldiers and special forces, armed...
by Hugh Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
When Australian troops stormed ashore in the pre-dawn darkness of April 25th 1915, it was the culmination of one of the most complex and daunting operations in the history of warfare - the seaborne assault of a heavily fortified shore, defended by a well-prepared and forewarned enemy.
The risks...
Culture Crisis
Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Written by Australia’s leading anthropologists, this valuable examination explores the Australian government’s intervention in terms of health, safety, and education of the nation’s remote Aboriginal citizens via the Northern Territory National Emergency Response. Dissecting the notion of difference...
The Man Who Saved Smithy
Fighter pilot, pioneer aviator, hero: the life of Sir Gordon Taylor GC, MC
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Patrick Gordon 'Bill' Taylor was a pioneer of Australian aviation. As a fighter pilot during the First World War, he was awarded the Military Cross and discovered a life-long passion for flight and air navigation. Returning to Australia after the war, he became a close friend of Charles Kingsford...
Over the Top
A digger's story of the Western Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Australia's diggers didn't go 'over the top' for King and Country, they did it for their mates and their battalion - extraordinary deeds performed by ordinary men.
Henry George Hartnett, known as 'Harry', joined the Australian Imperial Force on 13 September 1915 at the age of 23. He saw action...