by NRB | 16 Jul 2020 | Non-fiction |
This revised edition of Stephen Garton’s The Cost of War, on the impact of war on individuals and society, remains all too relevant. Let us begin with the proposition that war is hell; that those who become involved in it become agents of terror, or victims, or...
by NRB | 25 Aug 2016 | Non-fiction |
The Game of Their Lives is a compelling account of Australian Rules football and the men who played it in a time of war. Central to this story is the exhibition match played between teams from the Australian Imperial Force’s 3rd Division and the training units at...
by NRB | 12 May 2016 | Non-fiction |
Armenia, Australia & the Great War is a rigorously researched history that focuses on Australians’ experiences of the Armenian genocide. In 1915, just hours before the Anzac soldiers began their attack on Gallipoli, the Ottoman Empire put in motion the world’s...
by NRB | 6 Oct 2015 | Fiction |
This charming and inventive first novel is audaciously told and richly woven. Growing up near Beechworth in the mid-1880s, James Kelly inhabits a small but blissful world that revolves around his adoring mother, his favourite picture book, the bull in the paddock...
by NRB | 6 Feb 2014 | Non-fiction |
Paul Ham provides a readable and fair-minded corrective to the history wars being waged in the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. If you have ever stood by the grave of an Australian, or any other soldier, who died in the First World War and wondered at the...
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