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This volume originated in a conference of the same title, held in Oxford in September 2006, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Peter Parsons, Regius ...
A lighthearted look at 50 of the grandest predictions the world has seen - and how they were proved to be spectacularly wrong. The book asks ...
For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant ...
Tells how Australian crews, in a handful of Hudson bombers and Catalina flying boats, took the fight to the Japanese. Draws on eyewitness accounts and ...
On the morning of 3 January 1941, Australians of the 6th Division led an assault against the Italian colonial fortress village of Bardia in Libya ...
Petri's volume Sterbende welt in nordwest Australien, first appeared in 1954 and presents the complexities and the conundrums that appear within the concepts that ...
At its height, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire yet seen with borders stretching from the rain-swept highlands of Scotland in the north to ...
"The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. " --Journal of Southern History, 2007"Incisive and insightful.... As good ...
In the 1960s, voting was class and party-based; today, environmentalism, evaluations of economic performance and the personalities of the leaders dominate political debate. Ian McAllister ...
Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, this book follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning ...
In the 14th century, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching ...
Far more than Shakespeare, the King James' Bible helped to create and shape the language. It is the origin of many of our most familiar ...
In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her parents over her refusal to ...
This is the thrilling story of the young Australian Army engineers of 3 Field Troop who were the first allied soldiers to risk their lives ...
