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Farming of Australia
Triumph over a dry, hot and often infertile land. Australia's farmers have overcome difficult terrain and the tyranny of distance to make the country an important food bowl. This …
Gold Always Wins: How the Yellow Metal Defies Its Critics
Why do so many people try to diminish the gold story? And why does gold keep bouncing back in defiance of its critics? That is the theme of this book. Robin Bromby shows that …
German Raiders of the South Seas
"The band had played Watch on the Rhine, the sailors left behind cheered, other men waved their hats, and women cried, as the Emden pulled out of Germany's China colony of Tsingtao …
New Zealand Railways
New Zealand railway builders surmounted many obstacles: the terrain, a sparse and scattered population, two islands separated by an often stormy stretch of water, demands from …
Australian Railways
The nightmare of three different gauges, the daunting challenge of building railways across vast open spaces often with no water supplies, the follies of railway lines that were …
Newspapers
From the broadcast of the first news bulletin on radio in 1920, daily newspapers have been under pressure from a succession of challenges, ranging from television to suburban …
Fighting on Empty
Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy all embarked on their Second World War plans of conquest without one vital factor: sound economies that could absorb and withstand …