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A Very Rude Awakening: The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney harbour

Peter Grose (Author)

In May of 1942, the war seemed very far away to most Sydneysiders - until the night the three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour and caused an unforgettable…

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An Awkward Truth: The bombing of Darwin, February 1942

Peter Grose (Author)

Special 75th anniversary edition of the compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in…

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Council on Foreign Relations at 75

Peter Grose

Heir to the academic think-tank called The Inquiry that prepared Woodrow Wilson for the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the Council on Foreign Relations has ever since filled a unique…

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A Good Place to Hide: How one French community saved thousands of lives in World War II

Peter Grose

They kept their heads down, they kept their mouths shut and they stuck together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3500 Jews in their small villages in the isolated…

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A Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II

Peter Grose

The untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II

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Ten Rogues: The unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen’s Land to Chile

Peter Grose

From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of…

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Awkward Truth

Peter Grose

Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet the Japanese attack on 19 February 1942 was the first wartime assault on Australian soil. The Japanese struck with the same…

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Operation Rollback: America’s Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain

Peter Grose

The author of Gentleman Spy presents a true story of espionage and deception and of the secret plan to liberate Eastern Europe from communism for four decades after World War…

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1942: the year the war came to Australia: The bombing of Darwin and the attack on Sydney by the Japanese

Peter Grose

The story of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese midget sub attack on Sydney Harbour in one volume from the bestselling author of An Awkward Truth and A Very…

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Ten Rogues

Peter Grose

From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of…

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A Good Place to Hide: How One Community Saved Thousands of Lives from the Nazis In WWII

Peter Grose

Told with the full cooperation of many of the survivors, this is the story of WWII’s greatest escape.

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THE BATTLE OF SYDNEY HARBOUR 1942

Peter Grose

A beautifully presented, lavishly illustrated, large landscape format book. Text is in English and Japanese, following two separate paths to war and the surprise attack by submarine on ships in…

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The History of Cheshire: Containing King’s Vale-Royal Entire, Together with … Extracts from Sir Peter Leycester’s Antiquities of Cheshire; And the Observation of Later Writers, Particularly, Pennant, Grose &C. &C. Volume 2 of 2

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

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The History of Cheshire: Containing King’s Vale-Royal Entire, Together with … Extracts from Sir Peter Leycester’s Antiquities of Cheshire; And the Observation of Later Writers, Particularly, Pennant, Grose &C. &C. Volume 1 of 2

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

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The History of Cheshire

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The History of Cheshire

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