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Captain Bligh's Other Mutiny by Stephen Dando-Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
The rollicking story of two powerful and colourful men and the only military coup in Australian history.William Bligh is famous as captain of the Bounty, the ship he lost to mutineers led by Fletcher Christian. But few people know that Bligh was the centre of a later, much larger mutiny, when he lost no ...Show more
Crack Hardy by Stephen Dando-Collins
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Legions of Rome: The Definitive History of Every Roman Legion by Stephen Dando-Collins
$69.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous so ...Show more
Mark Antony's Heroes by Stephen Dando-Collins
$38.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Looks at the formidable fighting legions that drove Rome's expansion. This work focuses on the 3rd Gallica Legion. In 36 BC , the fighting unit helped Mark Antony invade Media.
Operation Chowhound : The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII by Stephen Dando-Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
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
Seven Against Thebes The Quest of the Original Magnificent Seven by Stephen Dando-Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Oedipus, who famously killed his father and married his mother, solving the riddle of the Sphinx to become king of Thebes. His devastated wife Jocasta. Their sons, the power-hungry Eteocles and the betrayed Polynices. Their loyal sisters Antigone and Ismene. And the Seven, most famous warrior band in Gr ...Show more
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus by Stephen Dando-Collins
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
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 Ides: Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
This title unravels the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Julius Caesar. The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two thousand years after it occurred, many compelling questions remain about his death: Was Brutus the hero and Caesar the villain? Did Caes ...Show more
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