Kokoda

The Legend of Albert Jacka: From the brutal shores of Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, the epic story of the first Australian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross in WW1

Tobruk

The Battle of Long Tan

The Second World War

The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Eureka: The Unfinished Rebellion

Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent

The Ballad of Les Darcy

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Fromelles and Pozières: In the Trenches of Hell

Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Nancy Wake

The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice.

Victory at Villers-Bretonneux

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds