'He was courageous. He was ambitious. He was skilled. He was visionary. He could be ruthless. He was someone born of a new nation. But he was of a time now long

This pertinent and highly original volume explores how ideas of Europe and processes of continental political, socio-economic, and cultural integration have bee

On 25 April 1915, with the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) below the slopes of Sari Bair on the Gallipoli peninsula, the ANZAC lege

The flying career of John Robertson Duigan spanned just a decade from 1908 to 1918. 100 years ago he built and successfully flew the first aeroplane made in Aus

This book, first published in 1983, is a compilation of some 50,000 acronyms and abbreviations used by the British, American, German and Soviet military. It ena

By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy

Perry McNeil, the Navy's fi rst female Air Wing Commander, returns to a peacetime America and fi nds her homecoming is anything but peaceful. She gets caught in

With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics