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By: Phillip Deery
The untold stories of espionage in Australia
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency- ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities w..
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By: Ian Knight
In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez Canal. British forces were soon deployed to Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, where they confronted a determined and capable foe amid some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. In 1881 an Islamic fundame..
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By: James Phelps
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 t..
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By: Ben Pobjie
History is written by the winners and about the winners. But what about the nearly men and women of the past who reached for gold but grasped only morale-sapping silver? Australia's second-best comedy historian Ben Pobjie celebrates the fascinating stories of those pipped at the post of greatness Fr..
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By: Peter Grose
From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of authority, treachery, piracy and mutiny, escape from the hangman's noose and even love. Peopled with good men, buffo..
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A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers in world history. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery surr..
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Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane. For those growing up in the 50s and 60s, this book will bring back those beautiful memories of freedom, imagination, mateship, communication and innocence...
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By: Ben Macintyre
Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II - Antony Beevor..
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By: Michael Brooks
Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains why maths is fundamental to our understanding of the world...
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By: Paulina Bren
'A pleasurable, fascinating read that is superbly researched and told' Sydney Morning Herald 'Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer 'Fascinating' Daily Mail 'A treat, elegantly spinning a forgotten story of female libera..
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By: Gregg Adams
Between June 1812 and January 1815, US and British forces, notably the regular infantrymen of both sides (including the Canadian Fencibles Regiment), fought one another on a host of North American battlefields. This study examines the evolving role and combat performance of the two sides' regulars d..
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