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Apres la Guerre: Anzac Stories 1919 - 1939 by John Ramsland
34.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
What really happened to the ex-servicemen in Australia when they returned to civil life?The truth of their stories in peacetime is as shocking as the war they faced. In fact, the line separating the living from the dead was, at times, not clear at all.Many soldiers returned to celebrations, such as the ...Show more
Flying into Danger: The Paul Brickhill Story by John Ramsland
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A fascinating look at the troubled life story of wartime bravery, the price of fame and of a serious breakdown that lasted two decades. During the 1950s Paul Brickhill, an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war and author wrote, without a doubt, the best iconic stories of the RAF in wartime Europe - ...Show more
Remembering Aboriginal Heroes by John Ramsland, Christopher Mooney
26.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
During the 1940s and '50s in Australia there rose to prominence many icons of Aboriginal descent, representative of the culture of the day and of their own people. Some permanently influenced the minds of Australians and remain famous to this day. Others have been unjustly forgotten.Albert Namatjira was ...Show more
Rendezvous with Death by John Ramsland
26.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Some AIF men had a rendezvous with death in the 'silence in the summer night', but many were to survive only to face 'the thudding of the guns', again and again until 11 November 1918 at 11am. Their stories were about ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. They endured physical and psycholo ...Show more
The Legacy of Douglas Grant by John Ramsland
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The versatile and gifted Douglas Grant was stereotyped in the media as the Black Digger with a Scottish accent. He was much more than that. Well educated by White parents who rescued him from an 1886 massacre in the frontier wars, Douglas became an engineering draftsman, woolclasser, charismatic public ...Show more
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