Books that bring Australia’s forgotten history to life
The Light on the Hill:
An Updated History of the Australian Labor Party
A revised and updated edition of award-winning historian Ross McMullin’s acclaimed history of the Australian Labor Party — an entertaining, action-packed, warts-and-all narrative full of illuminating pen-portraits and vivid anecdotes.
The story is told through the people who made it. All Labor’s prime ministers feature — Watson, Fisher, Hughes, Scullin, Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke, Keating, Rudd, Gillard, and Albanese. The sweeping storytelling blends their governments’ achievements and tribulations with those of ALP state branches, conflicts over organisation and policy, emotional highs and lows, and intrigue and intimidation behind the scenes.
Life So Full of Promise: further biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation
Life So Full of Promise, the second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, features a collection of inter-woven stories set in that defining era.
Pompey Elliott at War:
In His Own Words
Rather than a comprehensive, life-and-times biography like Ross’s previous book on Pompey, this new book is Pompey in World War I in his own words.
Other books by Ross:
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