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The Men who Made Radio
Acclaimed by hobbyists as the best book on radio ever written, Empire of the Air traces the lives of the three visionaries behind the modern communica...
How the A-Bomb Saved the Lives of 32 Million People
A thought-provoking analysis of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and what might have happened if conventional weapons were used instead. It has...
Investigative journalist, Jeb Willard, learns that his old college friend, a Secret Service agent, fatally shot the controversial President of the Uni...
Water War in Bolivia
Historically a common trust, water is now bought and sold as a private commodity. With billions at the mercy of an unrestrained marketplace, it is eas...
Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability
Rethink climate, resilience, and sustainability for your organization In Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, ...
A Comprehensive Guide to the First Japanese Attacks on Darwin
A comprehensive guide to the first Japanese attacks on Darwin on 19th February 1942, written by Dr Tom Lewis, OAM. An essential reference work on this...
Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
"Anyone who has ever driven on a U.S. interstate highway or eaten at an exit-ramp McDonald’s will come away from this book with a better understandi...
A History
The Hudson River has always played a vital role in American culture. Flowing through a valley of sublime scenery, the great river uniquely connects Am...
How the A-Bomb Attacks Saved the Lives of 32 Million People
So did not the atomic weapons bring about a great peace? Since the initial grateful acknowledgement of the success of the A-bomb attacks in ending Wor...
A History of Our National City
Breathing life into the men and women who struggled to help the city realize its full potential, he introduces us to the mercurial French artist who c...
RUDI WINTER, the illegitimate son of MARTIN BORMANN, a ruthless and diligent West German policeman, has spent his entire life patiently, tirelessly se...
The Men Who Made Radio
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A Study of the True Nature of Battle
Lethality in Combat shines a blazing light on the three most controversial aspects of military combat: the necessity of killing; the taking, or not, o...
Lethality in Combat, a Study of the Real Nature of Battle
The Truth of War unveils a penetrating exploration of the most contentious facets of military combat, delving into the necessity of killing, the compl...
Battle Tactics and Fighting Techniques of the Wars of the Roses
A concise and entertaining explanation of how other accounts, and popular culture such as films, have misrepresented medieval warfare. We don't know h...
A Selfless Act of Valour
No-one will ever know what made him do it. In 1942, 18-year-old Edward “Teddy” Sheean was one of the youngest and most inexperienced sailors on bo...
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
How Sailors lived, fought and died in Australia's greatest naval disaster
HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of Australia’s main combat vessels. On the 19th November...
The Complete Guide to Australia's Own Pearl Harbor
When the Pacific war began it was a case of "when not if" Darwin would be attacked. But nobody could have predicted the extraordinary scale and feroci...
In Today's Economy
Investing in real estate is one of the safest ways to create wealth. The key to making a successful investment is to buy a property at a price that wi...
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney Harbour was attacked by midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. An accommodation vessel of the Royal Aust...
How the A-Bomb Attacks Saved the Lives of 32 Million People [Large Print 16pt]
How the A-bomb Attacks Saved the Lives of 32 Million People
The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Included in the book are over twenty new essays by writers Akiko Busch, Kathryn Davis, Terence Diggory, Carolyn Forche, Phillip Lopate, Rick Moody, To...
A Novel
Australian Naval Heroes
Any Australian asked to mention our war heroes could probably name General Monash and Albert Jacka VC from World War I, and then Weary Dunlop, and per...
The Untold Story of the Attacks on Northwest Australia in 1942
Examines the actions of senior officials in the second most deadly attack on Australian soil when Zero fighters destroyed 15 flying boats at Broome wh...
A Young Person's Guide to the Japanese Attack of 19 February 1942
The Japanese attack on Darwin on 19 February 1942 stunned the nation and has been a topic of much folklore and speculation ever since. Indeed, it was ...
The first attacks on Australia by the Japanese were made by four submarines of the Sixth Submarine Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Together, t...
Japan's Air War Against Northern Australia 1942-45 (Second Edition)
Between 1942 and 1945 the Japanese waged a relentless air war against the vast expanses of Northern Australia. Using newly translated Japanese sources...
American Airmen Defending Northern Australia In 1942
In 1942, the air defense of the northern Australian frontier town Darwin was operated by airmen from the United States.That year was very nearly the e...
A Memorial Book
Allied Bomber Operations from Northern Australia 1942-1945
In early March 1942 Allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies surrendered and the lightning Japanese conquest of South East Asia was complete. Amid...
Japan's Air War Against Northern Australia 1942-45
Very few Australians today know of the fierce air battles fought across the Top End of Australia in World War II. For more than two years Japanese air...
THE SLAVES OF DUNWOODIE PLANTATIONLouise ..... Called "Lu Lu," Only fourteen when she is sold with her mother into slavery by her own father, the Gove...