Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History

This book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which - during campaigns in...

The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top...

In the summer of 1865, when a Confederate warship sailed into the port of Melbourne, 42 men secretly enlisted to fight for the South in the American Civil War. On the notorious raider Shenandoah "scourge of the Yankee merchant fleet" they sailed off to adventure and controversy, and fired the las...

Discover the fascinating details that made Australia the country it is today in this fully revised and updated edition of this bestseller Australian History For Dummies is your tour guide through the important events of Australia's past, introducing you to the people and events that have shaped m...