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Armenia Australia and the Great War by Peter Stanley
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide. 24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became the Genocide of ...Show more
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force by Peter Stanley
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Australia's long-standing love affair with the Diggers has blinded us to the dark side of the Anzac legend. Bad Characters will tell the story of the Australian soldiers in the Great War who were not heroes. The term 'bad characters' was used by the army to refer to those who caused unrest or were disob ...Show more
Lost Boys of Anzac by Peter Stanley
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the very f ...Show more
Men of Mont St Quentin by Peter Stanley
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five more were wounded, one of whom died six weeks lat ...Show more
Simpson's Donkey by Peter Stanley
$14.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Based on the most famous animal in Australian history, Simpon's Donkey tells the story of the donkey's service in Gallipoli where for three weeks he helped Simpson carry wounded men down to Anzac Cove. Author Peter Stanley tells his story - in the donkey's own voice - taking the reader on a journey from ...Show more
The Crying Years Australia's Great War by Peter Stanley
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
The Great War continues to fascinate us all. In this original approach, prize-winning historian Peter Stanley cleverly weaves his narrative around striking images-many never seen before-to create a visual history that immerses the reader in each moment. Peter has selected documents, photographs, artefac ...Show more
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