Peter Cochrane: 3 books
Best We Forget
The War for White Australia, 1914–18
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The preparation for a coming war and ultimately the commitment to that war was driven by White Australia's sense of vulnerability in the Pacific, by various nightmare scenarios in which Australia could be left to fend for itself, unaided by Britain, and by the determination to have racial purity at...
Governor Bligh and the Short Man: Penguin Special
Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Some seventeen years after the mutiny on the Bounty, William Bligh sets sail for New South Wales as Governor-elect of the fledgling colony. He is accompanied by his daughter Mary, the narrator of this extraordinary shipboard tale. A cultured young Englishwoman, Mary is entirely unprepared for the...
Futureproofing
If You Can Imagine it, it Will Happen, If You Can't - You're Out of it
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
If you can imagine it it will happen...if you can't you're out of it! This book is a white-knuckle ride. It drills down into what we are doing now and comes up in the future to see what comes next. The book is a commentary and a clarion call and an invitation to see round corners and a clarion call...