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Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, new edition by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Australia has no war hero more impressive than Tongerlongeter. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and ’30s, Tongerlongeter and his allies led the most effective frontier resistance ever mounted on Australian soil. They killed or wounded some 354 — or 4 per cent — of the ...Show more
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole conti ...Show more
Unnecessary Wars by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a threeyear conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had, ostensibly, nothing to do with Australia. Coi ...Show more
What's Wrong with Anzac The Militarisation of Australian History by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds; with Mark McKenna and Joy Damousi
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In recent years Anzac - an idea as much as an actual army corps - has become the dominant force within Australian history, overshadowing everything else. The commemoration of Anzac Day is bigger than ever, while Remembrance Day, VE Day, VP Day and other military anniversaries grow in significance each y ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more