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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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
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
Blood Money: Bikies, Terrorists and Middle Eastern Gangs by Clive Small; Tom Gilling
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Organized crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power? There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business is drugs, ...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: Australiana
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
Milat: Inside Australia's biggest manhunt - a detective's story by Clive Small, Tom Gilling
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Milat - the serial killer who preyed on young hitchhikers. The backpackers - the innocent victims of a brutal murderer. Belanglo - a place that became synonymous with pure evil...It was the biggest and most complex manhunt in Australian history, an investigation that gripped a nation. Behind the many fa ...Show more
Project Rainfall: The Secret History of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
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: Military
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 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: Military
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
The Witness: The fighting had ended but for Sandakan's most notorious prisoner the war was not over by Tom Gilling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
He did what he needed to survive . . . the story of Sandakan's most notorious POW At the Australian war crimes trials that followed World War II, one prosecution witness stood out: he was Sergeant-Major Bill Sticpewich. During Sticpewich's three years inside the infamous Sandakan POW camp, hundreds of A ...Show more