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The battle of Trafalgar decided a nation's fate, and this fascinating account tells the story of that crucial confrontation as it has never been told before. Many people know the facts about Nelson's death, but far less of the battle in which he died: a single afternoon's fighting that forever ended Napoleon's hope of invading England.

A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler's most terrifying battleship - the legendary Tirpitz - and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Nazi's fearsome war machine.

The most loyal and ruthless enforcers of the Third Reich began as a small squad of political thugs. Yet by the end of 1935, the SS had taken control of all police and internal security duties in Germany--ranging from local village "gendarmes" all the way up to the secret political police and the Gestapo. And by 1944, the militarized Waffen-SS had more than eight hundred thousand men serving in the field, rivaling even Germany's regular armed forces, the Wehrmacht.

Reference to sightings of and violent conflict with the Aboriginal people of the Kimberleys; use of Aborigines as police constables; from primary sources.

In Nazism and War, Richard Bessel, one of the preeminent authorities on the social and political history of modern Germany, demonstrates how racial hatred was the driving force behind–and not a by-product of–Nazism. War was the anvil on which Hitler’s worldview was forged; to him, war was “the most memorable period of my life,” and “all the past fell away into oblivion.”

The authors lead us to discover the world's oldest civilization origin

A picture of life in the year 1000. Set in England, it follows the Julian Calendar month by month, revealing amazing details of a mainly agrarian life.

Some 50,000 young people were brought to Australia under the youth migration scheme. Its aim was simply to fill Australia's empty space with young people of white, essentially Angol-Saxon stock. This book tells their collective story.

The history of the sucessful 1970s campaign to end whaling in Australia by closing the last whaling company operating out of Albany, Western Australia, told from the point of view of both whalers and anti-whaling activists.

Authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in military history.