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Goose Green
A Battle is Fought to be Won

Author: Mark Adkin
Publication Date: 19950302

Goose Green was the critical land engagement in the Falklands War. This detailed account is based on interviews with the men who fought in the battle on both sides, and their commanders. It takes the reader in detail through the battle, a vicious, 14-hour infantry struggle.

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A Little History of Australia

Author: Mark Peel
Publication Date: 6 August 1996

This history of Australia tells the whole story of the Great Southern Land, from its Aboriginal origins to 1997, including: discovery by European navigators who claimed the land as their own, the First Fleet, convict settlements, the gold rushes, and massive post-war immigration.

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Australia
A Biography of a Nation

Author: Philip Knightley
Publication Date: 6 September 2001

Part history, part travelogue, part memoir, this book tells the inspiring story of how a one time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. This book describes Australia's journey through the eyes of ordinary people, from the trauma of the WW-I to the decline of the relationship with Britain, and more.

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The Floating Brothel
The Extraordinary True Story of an 18th-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts

Author: Sian Rees
Publication Date: 7 January 2002

The Sunday Times bestseller

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Amphibious Assault Falklands
The Battle of San Carlos Water

Author: M.C. Clapp
Publication Date: 19971006

Without the success of the amphibious assault on the Falkland Islands, the failure of the UK's attempt to retake the islands would have been a very real possibility. This is the story of that assault, written by the Commander of the Falklands Amphibious Task Group.

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Miss fane in india

Author: John Pemble
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All

Author: Christina Thompson
Publication Date: 17 August 2009

A book that perfectly balances memoir and history, interweaving a cross-cultural love story with the larger history of the colonial encounter

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life and death in eden
Pitcairn Island and the

Author: Trevor lummis
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1999

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Floating Brothel
The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts

Author: Sian Rees
Publication Date: 20010111

In July 1789, 237 women convicts left England for Botany Bay in Australia on board a ship called The Lady Julian, destined to provide sexual services and a breeding bank for the men already there. Based on research into contemporary sources, such as letters and trial records, this is the story of the women and their voyage.

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Falklands War

Author: Michael Parsons
Publication Date: 20000420

In the SUTTON POCKET HISTORIES series, an account of the 1982 conflict between Britain and Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.

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A Short History of Australia

Author: Manning Clark
Publication Date: 31 March 1995

January 26, 1788 A shipload of English convicts, headed by Captain-General Arthur Phillip, sailed into Sydney Cove, disemba...

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The Singing Line

Author: Alice Thomson
Publication Date: 6 July 2000

This work charts the author's journey in the footsteps of her great-great grandfather, Charles Heavitree Todd, the man who strung the telegraph across Australia. It brings together a mix of family history and exploration with a young couple's trek, as they follow the same line 150 years later.

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THE DAWN OF TIME - Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings

Author: Ainslie Roberts & Charles P. Mountford
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1969

A book about Australian aboriginal myths and provides selection of myths & paintings original shown at an exhibition of Aboriginal myths. The myths of the Australian aborigines, which deal with the creation of their Universe & the establishment of the rules of human behaviour that all must follow, are accepted as revelations of absolute truth & are the foundations of their social & secular & cerem...

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Sydney Portrait of a City

Author: Geoffrey Moorhouse
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1999

In a brilliant portrait of Australia's principal metropolis, Geoffrey Moorhouse traces Sydney's story from long before the arrival of the First Fleet loaded with convicts in 1788 to the preparation for hte Olympic Games in 2000........

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A Family of Brothers

Author: Viola Tait
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1971

History of Australian Theatre. Signed by the author....

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No Place for a Nervous Lady - Voices from the Australian Bush

Author: Lucy Frost
Publication Date: 1 April 1984

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broadsides!

Author: J E macdonnell
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1965

the author's own personal experience provides the inspiration for Broadsides, an outstanding collection of stories which are part of the history of the Royal Australian Navy....

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China - secrets of the dragon

Author:  austin
Publication Date: 1 Jan 2007

in this fascinating portrait we glimpse some of the great engineering feats, cultural traditions and natural wonders for which the dragon is famous. lavishly illustrated in full colour...

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Vaitupu
Two Years on a Remote Polynesian Atoll

Author: John Chalkley
Publication Date: 31 March 1999

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