The House: The Dramatic Story of the Sydney Opera House and the People Who Made It by Helen Pitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: good-very good
The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn't get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the worse. Helen Pitt tells the stories of the people behind the magnificent white sails of the Sydney Opera H ...Show more
The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing Anzacs by Scott Bennett
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Few Australians realise that of the 62,000 Anzac soldiers who died in the Great War, over one-third are still listed as 'missing'. With no marked graves, the only reminders of their sacrifice are the many names inscribed on ageing war memorials around the world. Bennett deftly tells the story of such mi ...Show more
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau: How Australia’s Signals-Intelligence Network Shortened the Pacific War by David Dufty
$37.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Alan Turing saved millions of lives. But Bletchley Park wasn't the only major code-breaking operation during World War II. Down under, there was Central Bureau.Central Bureau - Australia's own large and sophisticated intelligence network, built from scratch. It was this group of mathematicians, code-bre ...Show more
Unconventional Women The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia by Sarah Gilbert
$38.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
The lives of the women who joined a closed convent in Melbourne in a time of great upheaval In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who the ...Show more