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Crack Hardy by Stephen Dando-Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
This is the true story of three of Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came home a decorated hero. One Searle brother, a gifted poet who was planning to be a clergyman before the war, became a deadly efficient sniper. Another s ...Show more
Crack Hardy by Stephen Dando-Collins
$19.95 AUD
Category: Military
Dando-Collins adroitly interweaves a compelling family history with the broader canvas of the Anzacs. Crack Hardyis a fine and important book.This is the true story of three Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came home a decor ...Show more
Heroes of Hamel: The Australians and Americans whose WWI victory changed modern warfare by Stephen Dando-Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Specials
The battle of Hamel was remarkable for its speed, the tactics employed, numerous acts of extreme bravery, and the fact that for the first time in history American troops fought under Australian command. The Battle of Hamel,explores the preparations and ramifications for this blitzkreig and the parts pla ...Show more
Mistaken Identity: The Trials of Joe Windred by Stephen Dando-Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Mistaken identity haunted Joseph Windred. It saw him wrongly convicted on two continents, and almost cost him his life. But every time fate knocked him down, Joe got up, and came back stronger. His fighting spirit would make him a hero, and see him strike it rich. Little did the people of Orange NSW kno ...Show more
Mr Showbiz: The Biography of Robert Stigwood by Stephen Dando-Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Song, Stage & Screen
Born in Port Pirie, South Australia and moving to the UK in the 1950s where he soon established a theatrical agency, at the height of his success, in the 1970s, Robert Stigwood 'Stiggy' was the entertainment industry's most powerful tycoon. He came to renown managing the careers of the Bee Gees, Cream a ...Show more
Operation Black Shark (Caesar the War Dog #5) by Stephen Dando-Collins
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Caesar the War Dog
When Sergeant Ben Fulton s family joins him on a cruise ship holiday, Ben, Josh, Maddie, and Nan travel in luxury among the islands of the Caribbean while Caesar is in quarantine. But a gang who have broken out of a Cuban prison have other ideas. They hijack the massive ship and hold its 3,000 passenger ...Show more
Operation Blue Dragon (Caesar the War Dog #2) by Stephen Dando-Collins
$16.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Fiction | Series: Caesar the War Dog
Our canine hero is back on duty and back in Afghanistan for his most daring mission yet ...When injured war hero Charlie finally returns to SAS service, he no longer needs Caesar's help as a care dog. Caesar can go back to what he does best - as a super-sniffing explosive detection dog in the Australian ...Show more
Operation Chowhound : The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII by Stephen Dando-Collins
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland. It too ...Show more
Operation Pink Elephant (Caesar the War Dog #3) by Stephen Dando-Collins
$16.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Fiction | Series: Caesar the War Dog
This dog never forgets a friend. When their friend Lucky is kidnapped by elephant poachers in Tanzania, the Global Rapid Reaction Responders team is called in to find him. Caesar the super-sniffing war dog is sent with Ben and Charlie on the mission. After a death-defying parachute jump into the ocean, ...Show more
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus by Stephen Dando-Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
May 27, 2015 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes. After he died, the London Times described him as 'a colonial colossus.' Henry Parkes received little schooling and worked on a rope-walk, breaking stones, as an ivory and bone turner, ironmonger, labourer and on the wharves befo ...Show more
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus by Stephen Dando-Collins
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
May 27, 2015 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes. After he died, the London Times described him as 'a colonial colossus.' Henry Parkes received little schooling and worked on a rope-walk, breaking stones, as an ivory and bone turner, ironmonger, labourer and on the wharves befo ...Show more
The Big Break: The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told by Stephen Dando-Collins
$35.99 AUD
Category: Military
The story opens in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an American and a Canadian lead the digging of a tunnel which enabled a break involving 36 prisoners of war (POWs). The Germans then converted the camp to Of lag 64, to exclusively hold US Army officers, with more than 1500 Americans ultima ...Show more