{"product_id":"the-australian-wars-the-truth-about-the-bloody-battles-fought-to-establish-the-nation","title":"The Australian Wars: The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish the nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign battles to date. But there are few memorials marking these first, domestic wars.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the first book to tell the story of the continental sweep of massacres, guerilla warfare, resistance and the contests of firearms and traditional Aboriginal weaponry as Indigenous nations resisted colonial occupation of their lands, territory by territory. At stake was the sovereignty of an entire country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack and white writers tell the stories of these battles across three crucial time periods, and all the states and territories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis history is still alive in those descendants who carry the stories of their ancestors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Australian Wars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into the present so that we might know the truth of the origins of this nation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the product:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: \u003cspan class=\"col supply-data--value\"\u003e9781761474392\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Soft cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished Date: 24 February 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 416\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54217848881520,"sku":"9781761474392","price":39.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/2270\/4189\/files\/9781761474392.jpg?v=1787547562","url":"https:\/\/shop.awm.gov.au\/products\/the-australian-wars-the-truth-about-the-bloody-battles-fought-to-establish-the-nation","provider":"Australian War Memorial","version":"1.0","type":"link"}