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Armenia Australia and the Great War by Peter Stanley
$34.99 AUD
$42.99 (18% off)
Category: Military
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide. 24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became the Genocide of ...Show more
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force by Peter Stanley
$29.95 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Military
Australia's long-standing love affair with the Diggers has blinded us to the dark side of the Anzac legend. Bad Characters will tell the story of the Australian soldiers in the Great War who were not heroes. The term 'bad characters' was used by the army to refer to those who caused unrest or were disob ...Show more
Charles Bean: Man, Myth, Legacy by Peter Stanley
$39.99 AUD
$47.99 (16% off)
Category: Military
"Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was also a public servant, ins ...Show more
Commando to Colditz: Mickey Burn's Journey to the Far Side of Tears - The Raid on St Nazaire by Peter Stanley
$34.95 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: Military
Commando to Colditz is an unusual war story. It is centred around a most unusual war hero: Michael 'Micky' Burn, soldier, poet and novelist, whose journey from fascist follower, to commander of Six Troop, 2 Commando, to prisoner (and communist lecturer) in the notorious prison of Colditz forms the focal ...Show more
Die in Battle, Do not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915 by PETER STANLEY
$75.00 AUD
Category: Military
About 1,600 of the Indians who served on Gallipoli died, in actions at Gurkha Bluff and Hill 60. They took part in terrible, failed attacks, at Gully Ravine and Gully Spur and in the climactic attempt in August to seize the summit of Sari Bair - one of the Gurkhas' most cherished battle honors. Though c ...Show more
Digger Smith & Australia's Great War by Peter Stanley
$39.99 AUD
$49.99 (20% off)
Category: Military
"Smiths were among the first men to land at Gallipoli. Smiths fought and died at Pozieres, Bullecourt and Passchendaele. Smiths were wounded - and treated by doctors and nurses named Smith. At home, Smiths penned patriotic doggerel and spoke vociferously against conscription. There was Grace Cossington ...Show more
Lost Boys of Anzac by Peter Stanley
$14.99 AUD
$44.99 (66% off)
Category: Military
Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the very f ...Show more
Men of Mont St Quentin by Peter Stanley
$35.00 AUD
$40.00 (12% off)
Category: Military
At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five more were wounded, one of whom died six weeks lat ...Show more
Simpson's Donkey by Peter Stanley
$14.99 AUD
$18.99 (21% off)
Category: Children's Non Fiction
Based on the most famous animal in Australian history, Simpon's Donkey tells the story of the donkey's service in Gallipoli where for three weeks he helped Simpson carry wounded men down to Anzac Cove. Author Peter Stanley tells his story - in the donkey's own voice - taking the reader on a journey from ...Show more
The Crying Years Australia's Great War by Peter Stanley
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Great War continues to fascinate us all. In this original approach, prize-winning historian Peter Stanley cleverly weaves his narrative around striking images-many never seen before-to create a visual history that immerses the reader in each moment. Peter has selected documents, photographs, artefac ...Show more
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