John Hamilton: 72 books
by John Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination. What John Hamilton...
Fatal Charge at Gallipoli
The Story of One of the Bravest and Most Futile Actions of the Dardanelles Campaign - The Light Horse at The Nek - August 1915
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Armed only with rifles, bayonets and raw courage, the men of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade left the shelter of their rocky trenches to storm The Nek, a narrow stretch of ridge held by the Ottoman Turks. The first wave of attackers were cut down almost as soon as they stood up. Those that followed knew...
by John Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
A powerful and very different account of war and its effect on those who fight
The Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers. Scrub, cliffs, spurs and hills meant that both Anzac and Turkish positions often overlooked one another. The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both...
by John Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
From the bestselling author of Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You and Gallipoli Sniper.
In The Price of Valour award-winning journalist John Hamilton gives us an extraordinary insight into the life of a real Australian hero, Hugo Throssell.
From the bloody battles of The Nek and Hill 60 during...
by John Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2007
On August 7th 1915, men of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade staged one of the most tragic, brave and futile charges of the First World War. Seeking to break out of the Anzac position at Gallipoli they attempted to storm an extraordinarily strong Turkish position, defended by artillery, machineguns and...
by John Hamilton Farr
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
"It was Friday afternoon, and the post office was full of Indians..."
From the opening sentence, you know you're in a different world. Part memoir, nature writing, black comedy, confession, and journal of spiritual discovery, Taos Soul is a collection of 62 true stories about life...
by John Hamilton Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Gallipoli Sniper
The Remarkable Life of Billy Sing
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
'This is a well-researched, detailed and compelling story.'
Defender Magazine
Billy Sing was a small, dark man – and a deadly killer. When, as a member of the Australian Imperial Force 5th Light Horse, he was thrust onto the narrow strip of land held by the Australians on Gallipoli, he witnessed...
by Alicia Kestrell Verlager, E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Nicholas A. Knouf
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.
For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our...
Scottish History
Strange But True
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
An ancient Scots law says that the head of any dead whale found on the Scottish coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail the property of the queen. The Scots excel at elephant polo, a game usually played in the East. The modern game was co-founded in the 1980s in Scotland,...
Ghosts of Avernus
The Epic Adventures of the Cleric: Eleazaar Oman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Everyone has those certain days when you get up; the sun is shining, there's a nice breeze under a blue sky and everything seems like a perfect day with endless possibilities. Then, something off-the-chain happens. Events turn and suddenly the day goes straight to hell in a hand-basket.
What...
Gallipoli Victoria Cross Hero
The Price of Valour- The Triumph and Tragedy of Hugo Throssell VC
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The son of a former Premier of Western Australia, Hugo Throssell, volunteered to join the Imperial Australian Force which was shipped to Gallipoli in 1915. He was a member of the 10th Australian Light Horse which fought in a dismounted role in Gallipoli. He was involved in the famous charge of the...
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
* Contains thousands of pages of Hamiltons writings, including classic American documents such as the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, and the Articles of Confederation. *Includes all of Hamiltons personal correspondence, including hundreds of letters and speeches. * Illustrated with over a dozen...
Journalism's Roving Eye
A History of American Foreign Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
In all of journalism, nowhere are the stakes higher than in foreign news-gathering. For media owners, it is the most difficult type of reporting to finance; for editors, the hardest to oversee. Correspondents, roaming large swaths of the planet, must acquire expertise that home-based reporters take...