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  • Tunnel Rats

    The larrikin Aussie legends who discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon

    The thrilling story of the young Australian Army engineers of 3 Field Troop who were the first allied soldiers to risk their lives in the darkness of the Vietcong tunnels of South Vietnam.'All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn't matter how small the tunnel is you never know what's around the bend . You don't know if it's ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Anzacs

    The incredible untold stories of Aussie and Kiwi combat engineers in WWI

    This is the unknown story of the combat engineers who kept World War I running. Although it has been repeatedly denied by the army, they were the first Australians and New Zealanders to land at Anzac Cove: in any combat, even today, sappers are always the first in and last out.They were airbrushed out of history. Official historian Charles Bean claimed the first Australian ashore at the Gallipoli ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Koala Bounces Back

    by Jimmy Thomson ...
    Illustrated by Eric Lobbecke ...
    Karri the bouncing koala is back!Karri the bouncing koala has a peaceful new home - until a gang of fierce, football-crazy cats moves in.The moggies aren't welcome - they keep chasing the bush birds and animals - but they've got nowhere else to live.Karri makes a deal with the cats. They'll play football and if the cats win they get to stay. But then he remembers . . . Karri and his friends don't ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban

    How Aussie sappers led the way in the war on terror

    They were young, they were tough and they were everywhere. They were both the backyard builders and the frontline troops in Australia's war against the Taliban.This is the powerful story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan whose raw courage and skills were inspired by the original Australian Tunnel Rats of the war in Vietnam. These Tunnel Rats of Afghanistan have rooted out the enemy ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sappers' War

    How the legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats fought the Vietcong

    'We make and we break.'They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary Aussie sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere in the fighting against the Vietcong.This special breed of soldier lived hard and played hard. They were ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The First Anzacs

    Narrated by Steve Shanahan ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    This is the unknown story of the combat engineers who kept World War I running. Although it has been repeatedly denied by the army, they were the first Australians to land at Anzac Cove: in any combat, even today, sappers are always the first in and last out.They were airbrushed out of history. Official historian Charles Bean claimed the first Australian ashore at the Gallipoli landing on 25 April ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Koala Who Bounced

    by Jimmy Thomson ...
    Illustrated by Eric Lobbecke ...
    Stunning rejacket of a favourite picture bookKarri discovers he is quite different from the other koalas when he falls out of the tree - and bounces!But what good is being able to bounce when nobody else can do it with you and you have no friends?Karri feels lonely and not very special at all. Then one day he bounces up into a tree and finds out just how useful he can be! ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • No Need for Heroes

    THE FIRST TUNNEL RATSThis is the thrilling, hilarious and inspiring true story of a ragtag band of Aussie Army Engineers who redefined the word heroes ... and reinvented larrikin too.Among the first Australians to fight in Vietnam, they faced death every day defusing Viet Cong booby traps—then partied all night in a casino they'd built in secret.They led hundreds of American troops to safety, but ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Snake Man

    The remarkable true-life story of an Aussie legend and a century of snake shows

    Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse - an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 'pet' snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965. By the time John retired in 2010, he'd survived five venomous snake bites.Many of those familiar ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban

    Narrated by Robert Meldrum ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    They are young, they are tough and they were the forward scouts in Australia's war against the Taliban. This is the story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan who learnt their skills from the original Australian Tunnel Rats of the Vietnam War. Like their compatriots in Vietnam, the Tunnel Rats of Afghanistan have rutted out the enemy from deep inside their caves and hideouts, have ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Tunnel Rats

    Narrated by Nicholas Bell ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    They were young, they were Australian, they were Army engineers and they were the first allied soldiers to risk their lives in the darkness of the Vietcong tunnels of South Vietnam. Not only did they follow their enemy down into these unknown underground labyrinths, but matched the Vietcong's jungle warfare skills and defused thousands of their clever booby traps. Off duty, it was a different ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Watto

    'There's nothing more we can do for you. Maybe it's time you gave up bowling. Concentrate on your batting.' September 2007For Shane Watson, this was a body blow, even more devastating than the injuries that had stalled his promising career. It felt like the end of his boyhood dreams of being Australia's number one all-rounder. He was shattered. He might never wear the Baggy Green again, even as a ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD