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Bastard Behind the Lines: The Extraordinary Story of Jock Mclaren's Escape from Sandakan and His Guerrilla War Against the Japanese by Tom Gilling
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla fighters. 'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like ...Show more
Code of Silence: How One Honest Police Officer Took on Australia's Most Corrupt Police Force by Tom Gilling; Colin Dillon
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"Wherever there is power and money, there is always the risk of corruption. But everyone has a choice: to become involved or to take a stand against it." Colin Dillon is an extraordinary man. He was the first Indigenous policeman in Australia. But that is actually a very small part of his story. He was ...Show more
Evil Life : The True Story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia by Clive Small and Tom Gilling
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks.Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been respon ...Show more
Evil Life : the Calabrian Mafia in Australia by Clive Small; Tom Gilling
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest, and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been resp ...Show more
Griffith Wars TPB by Tom Gilling; Terry Jones
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder. Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - wh ...Show more
Grog A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years by Tom Gilling
32.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
The marines on the First Fleet refused to sail without it. Convicts risked their necks to get hold of it. Rum built a hospital and sparked a revolution, made fortunes and ruined lives. In a society with few luxuries, liquor was power. It played a crucial role, not just in the lives of individuals like ...Show more
Project Rainfall: The Secret History of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Pine Gap is a top secret American spy base on Australian soil, but how much do we really know about it?
The Dark Side by Clive Small; Tom Gilling
29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"Each year at least $10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs." Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organized crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia's national security. Clive Small and Tom Gillin ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
The Griffith Wars - The Powerful True Story of Donald Mackay's Murder and the Town That Stood up to the Mafia by Tom Gilling; Terry Jones
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder. Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - wh ...Show more
The Lost Battalions: A Battle That Could Not Be Won. an Island That Could Not Be Defended. an Ally That Could Not Be Trusted by Tom Gilling
22.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a story of forgotten Australian heroes, the soldiers of two battalions--the 2/3 Machine-Gun battalion and the 2/2 Pioneer battalion--who were on their way home from action in the Middle East to defend Australia from the Japanese when they found themselves diverted to Java to face the vastly supe ...Show more
The Lost Battalions - A Battle That Could Not Be Won an Island That Could Not Be Defended. an Ally That Could Not Be Trusted by Tom Gilling
32.99 AUD
Category: History
They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan and Japan. Through it all, wrote Weary Dunlop, they showed 'fortitude beyond anything I could have believed possible'. Until n ...Show more