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    An Uncommon Hangman
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    An Uncommon Hangman

    **Winner, The Danger Awards 2023, People's Choice Awards****Shortlisted, The Danger Awards 2023, Non-fiction**Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences...
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    Dear Prime Minister
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    Dear Prime Minister

    'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his record-breaking 1949-1966 second term as Australian Prime...
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    Derrick VC in his own words
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    Derrick VC in his own words

    'Haven't lost the sand, dust, flies or fleas yet, but have had them for so long now they seem part of us' 12 August 1941, TobrukWhen Tom 'Diver' Derrick enlisted in the Second Australian Imperial Force on 5 July 1940, he was a...
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    Failures of Command
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    Failures of Command

    ** Shortlisted, ACT Book of the Year Award 2022 **On 29 August 2012 Private Robert Poate, Lance Corporal Rick Milosevic and Sapper James Martin were killed during an insider or green on blue attack in Afghanistan. Their killer, a supposed ally, was a...
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    The Bible in Australia
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    The Bible in Australia

    *Winner of the Nonfiction Award 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature**Winner of the 2019 NSW Premier's History Award: Australian History Prize**Winner of the 2019 Prime Minister's Australian History Prize**Winner of the 2019...
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    The Long Shadow
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    The Long Shadow

    'Most veterans were either alcoholics or workaholics and I fitted into the latter category.' - Chris Cannin (6RAR, 1967; 7RAR, 1967-68)'When I look back and I see what I used to do ... there were a lot of things wrong that I...
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    Australia's China Odyssey
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    Australia's China Odyssey

    ** Shortlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award **Australia's relationship with China is one of the dominant geopolitical stories of our times. The need to understand the tectonic forces of history moving beneath the surface of these...
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    Symbols of Australia
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    Symbols of Australia

    Australia is a land of symbols. The Southern Cross.The Sydney Opera House. The kangaroo. Vegemite.But what do they actually mean? Where do they come from?Why are some symbols so hotly contested?Does Australia have more than its fair share?Symbols of...
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    French Connection
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    French Connection

    **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, Australian History PrizeThe French have been integral to the Australian story since European colonisation. Escaped convicts from New Caledonia, wool buyers from Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing, gold-diggers,...
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    The Secret of Emu Field
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    The Secret of Emu Field

    Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the south. But Emu Field has its own secrets, and the fact that it was largely forgotten makes it more intriguing. Only at Emu...
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    Wounded Country
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    Wounded Country

    **Winner, Queensland Literary Awards 2022, Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance**Like many Australians, I looked on with horror as images of a million dead fish swamped the media and consumed the news cycle. I resolved to...
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    Fighting For Our Lives
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    Fighting For Our Lives

    'An incredible testimony to the darkest hours of Australia's queer history and the organisation that helped change everything. A story of devastation, resistance and, ultimately, survival, every Australian should know.' - Benjamin LawFighting For Our...
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    Gudyarra

    ** Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, NSW Regional and Community History Prize **** Shortlisted, Les Carlyon Literary Prize 2022 **'In May 1824, what can only be described as a period of all-out, total gudyarra ('war' in the Wiradyuri...
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    Documents on Australian Foreign Policy
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    Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

    Australia and the Suez Crisis 19501957 focuses on the evolution of Australian policy before, during and after the Suez Crisis. The central theme of the volume is how, in the development of the Australian policy response to that crisis, questions of...
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  • The Great War
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    The Great War

    The legacy of war is complex. From the late twentieth century as we moved closer to the centenary of the start of the First World War, Australia was swept by an 'Anzac revival' and a feverish sense of commemoration. In this book, leading historians...
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    Pathfinders
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    Pathfinders

    There are few Aboriginal icons in White Australia history.From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover's wife, with a few bushrangers for good measure, Europeans play all the leading roles. A rare exception is the redoubtable...
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    Addressing Modern Slavery
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    Addressing Modern Slavery

    An estimated 40 million people are modern-day slaves, more than ever before in human history.Long after slavery was officially abolished, thepractice not only continues but thrives. Whether they are women inelectronics or apparel sweatshops, children in...
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    Tongerlongeter
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    Tongerlongeter

    ** Longlisted, The Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2024 **An epic story of resistance, suffering and survival. Tongerlongeter resurrects a once-in-a-generation leader all Australians can admire.Australia has no war hero more...
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    Australia's Vietnam
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    Australia's Vietnam

    **2019 Nib Military History Prize Finalist ** 'This book shouldbe read by anyone interested in the way myths become accepted as history.' - Peter Edwards, author of Australia and the Vietnam WarWhy everything you thinkyou know about Australia's...
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    The Snowy
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    The Snowy

    The Snowy: A History tells theextraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of theworld's engineering marvels.The Snowy Scheme was an extraordinary engineering feat carried out over twenty-five years from 1949 to 1974 one that drove...
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    British India, White Australia
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    British India, White Australia

    Longlisted for the ICAS Book Prize 2021 - Best Book in the HumanitiesShortlisted for the 2021 Ernest Scott PrizeHighly Commended- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021Shortlisted for the Australian History Prize in the NSW Premier's...
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    Bedlam at Botany Bay
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    Bedlam at Botany Bay

    *Winner of the Australian History Prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards 2020**Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards Non-Fiction Book Award**Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History**Shortlisted for the Australian Historical...
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  • Honeysuckle Creek
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    Honeysuckle Creek

    Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some...
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    World War Noir
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    World War Noir

    World War Noir is an exposition of the old truth that war and crime - and sex, drugs and popular music - go hand in hand.It seems that not even world war could stop crime in Sydney. In fact, World War Noir confirms that war and...
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    Battle on 42nd Street
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    Battle on 42nd Street

    At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust?The battle for Crete was at once the most modern and the most ancient of wars. For a week Australian and New Zealand forces were relentlessly hammered from the skies...
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    Eureka
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    Eureka

    This graphic book brings to life the struggles of daily life on the goldfields and the powerful events of the Eureka stockade.The extraordinary story of Eureka is one that Australians have revisited since it happened in 1854. Why did British Army Red...
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    Beyond Combat
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    Beyond Combat

    'Even a military that is solely dedicated to preparing for war creates, simply by existing, a suite of responsibilities that has very little to do with combat.' - Tristan Moss and Tom RichardsonThere is a lot more to military life than war. From...
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    Radicals
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    Radicals

    The Sixties an era of protest, free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, fl ower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white fi lm footage marked a turning point for change. Radicals found their voices and used them...
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    Serving in Silence?
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    Serving in Silence?

    For the first time, Serving in Silence? reveals the integral role played by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women in Australia's military after the Second World War. Their powerful personal stories, recounted with searing honesty,...
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  • River Dreams
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    River Dreams

    In the beginning, there was the river - before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream.River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney -...
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    Wild Sea
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    Wild Sea

    SHORTLISTED for ACT Book of the YearRUNNER-UP in the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2019'An apparition of an adult wandering albatross comes into view. A small flutter and powerful wings arch upward in a slow, poised descent...
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    Australia & the Pacific
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    Australia & the Pacific

    ** Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize **** Winner, Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2023 **Australia's deep past and its modern history are intrinsically linked to the Pacic. In Australia & the...
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    The Battle Within
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    The Battle Within

    Head-aches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just don't seem to make a success of our return - ROBERT, A RETURNED POWThis landmark and compelling book follows...
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    This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
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    This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited

    'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who...
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    A New History of the Irish in Australia
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    A New History of the Irish in Australia

    Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2019: History Irish immigrants although despised as inferior on racial and religious grounds and feared as a threat to national security were one of modern Australia's most...
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    Sydney Noir
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    Sydney Noir

    The first ever book devoted entirely to the golden years of the Sydney underworld.In the late 1960s Sydney was one of the most prosperous places on earth and one of the most corrupt. A large proportion of the population was engaged in illegal gambling...
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    For Valour
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    For Valour

    **2019 Nib Military History Prize Finalist** For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional acts ofbravery and self-sacrifice in battle. From Captain Neville Howse of the NewSouth...
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    Serving our Country
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    Serving our Country

    After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defence forces.While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the...
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  • White Butterflies (Updated edition)
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    White Butterflies (Updated edition)

    A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic.After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941,11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across thesteep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. Over a three-month...
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    The Honest History Book
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    The Honest History Book

    In Australia's rush to commemorate allthings Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillarof Australia's history and identity?Thepassionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has beenimportant to...
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    Valiant for Truth
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    Valiant for Truth

    Chester Wilmot (19111954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic...
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    The Intervention
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    The Intervention

    In compelling fiction, memoir, essays, poetry and communiqus, the dramatic story of the Intervention and the despair, anguish and anger of the First Nations people of the Territory comes alive.The Intervention: An anthology is an extraordinary...
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    Hidden in Plain View
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    Hidden in Plain View

    Contrary to what you may think, local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and die out within decades of Governor Phillip's arrival in Sydney in 1788.Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney, yet we seem to skip a...
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    Up Came a Squatter
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    Up Came a Squatter

    Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria a livestock breeder and a...
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    The House That Jack Built
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    The House That Jack Built

    This is the story of how an ordinary bloke from the bush became the key figure in a movement that would change the shape of our cities and bring about lasting political and legal reform. This is the story of the house that Jack Mundey built...
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    Woolloomooloo
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    Woolloomooloo

    It was no wonder I was glad to be down in Woolloomooloo. The Old Fitzroy reminded me of how Kings Cross used to be.Told in his vivid and entertaining style, Louis Nowra writes Woolloomooloo's biography, drink in hand, from the vantage point of...
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    Swimming with The Spit
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    Swimming with The Spit

    This gorgeous book celebrates not just an illustrious swimming club on one of the most beautiful spots on Sydney Harbour but also the joy to be found in swimming itself. And while there can be few sensations more immediate and invigorating than diving...
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