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Best We Forget - The War for White Australia, 1914-18 by Peter Cochrane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The preparation for a coming war and ultimately the commitment to that war was driven by White Australia's sense of vulnerability in the Pacific, by various nightmare scenarios in which Australia could be left to fend for itself, unaided by Britain, and by the determination to have racial purity at almo ...Show more
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney Rn by Suzanne Rickard; Peter Cochrane (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed with Captain Cook on the Resolution and then on the Adventure between 1772 and 1 ...Show more
Simpson and the donkey by Peter Cochrane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The simple tale of Simpson and his donkey is the pre-eminent legend of heroism. It is the story of a humble water-carrier, a rescuer of wounded men, a tale of compassion, stoic persistence, with a tragic end. His tale is an integral part of the Anzac story. Across time, a simple tale can acquire a compl ...Show more
The Making of Martin Sparrow by Peter Cochrane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Martin Sparrow is already struggling when the Hawkesbury's great flood of March 1806 lays waste to him and his farm. Luckless, lovelorn and deep in debt, the ex-convict is confronted with a choice. He can buckle down and set about his agricultural recovery, or he can heed the whispers of an earthly par ...Show more
The Western Front 1916-1918 by Peter Cochrane
$12.99 AUD
Category: Specials
For all the significance attached to the brave, doomed heroism at Gallipoli, the Western Front was the single greatest wartime tragedy that elicited the greatest sacrifice. Of the 60 000 who died in the course of the war, 45 000 were lost at the Western Front. In a matter of weeks, more Australians were ...Show more
Tobruk 1941 by Peter Cochrane
$12.99 AUD
Category: Specials
A fascinating, intense and moving view of everyday survival and fortitude in near unendurable circumstances during the seige of Tobruk. No surrender and no retreat. When the 9th Division of the AIF withdrew into the Libyan fortress town of Tobruk early in April 1941, a seige began that was to make its m ...Show more
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