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A Very Rude Awakening: The Night the Japanese Midget Subs Came to Sydney Harbour by Peter Grose
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most glamorous city. The war seemed far away. Newspaper ...Show more
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 by Peter Grose
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942.
Ten Rogues: The unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen's Land to Chile by Peter Grose
$32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of authority, treachery, piracy and mutiny, escape from the hangman's noose and even love. Peopled with good men, buffoons, ...Show more
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