Red Coat Dreaming tells the story of the affectionate relationship between colonial Australia and the British army.

This book compares Australia with 17 other developed countries across a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions.

The third edition of this book recounts the key factors - social, economic and political - that have shaped modern-day Australia.

Victory is won or lost in battle, but all military history shows that adequate logistics support is essential to the winning of the battle. In World War II, 16.1 million men and women served in the US Armed Forces. This title deals with the men and women who served in logistical support roles for the front line combat personnel in WWII.

Clem Hill was born on his father's original selection on Brungle Creek, Tumut Shire, in 1887 and had a hard, but fulfilling, life working as a labourer and stockman. He enlisted in the 36th Battalion of the AIF in February 1916. This book discusses his life.

The third edition of this book recounts the key factors - social, economic and political - that have shaped modern-day Australia.

Tells how a once-desolate area of New South Wales became a thriving agricultural region through the addition of managed water resources. This title focuses on the grape growers and their contribution to a developing wine industry. It addresses many of the serious problems being experienced Australia wide.

Offers a look at Australia's Third Mainland Settlement, 1793-1802. This book discusses about Australia's beginnings, and about the third mainland settlement which grew at the River Hawkesbury. It deals with controversial themes, including the meeting of Indigenous and European cultures, and the results of the influence of the French Revolution.

Governor Arthur Phillip, was in effect the despotic ruler of New South Wales. This book tells the story of Captain Arthur Phillip, the Commodore of the First Fleet, who was empowered to govern the colony and who then became the friend of Bennelong, one of the native aboriginal tribes, who found themselves interacting with the convicts.

In late-18th-century Britain, people were hanged for petty offences, yet crime was rife. This title tells the story of how Governor Arthur Phillip, despotic ruler of New South Wales, imposed order between the convicts, sailors and native aboriginal tribespeople; and how the 'open-air prison' eventually developed into a vibrant city.

The Battle of San Carlos Water.

The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period leading up to it: How could Japanese soldiers have committed such acts of violence against Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians? This work covers these issues.

Delving into the history of Quinn's as a key part of the Anzac line, this book illuminates what it was like to live, fight and die there for a succession of Australian, New Zealand and British units. It tells the story of Quinn's, drawing substantially on the words of those who served there.

An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.

The countdown to Hiroshima and its horrific aftermath seen through the eyes of eyewitnesses

Graphic accounts of Australia's worst disasters ? historical as well as events of recent years.

Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Leseur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Le Havre and explores the story behind the Baudin expedition which produced these remarkable images. A voyage born of revolutionary times, these images are what remains of napoleon's ambition to establish a scientific empire.