New Perspectives on Yugoslavia: Key Issues and Controversies

WESTERN AUSTRALIA:
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   This history is full of vivid details of the hard life of the first explorers and pioneers.

   It covers the period from 1600 to 1901. It has all the makings of an adventure story with epic shipping voyages, politics, starvation, searches for water and minerals, convicts, and hard work.  In most countries, the story of the European settlers creating villages, towns and industry has long been forgotten, far into the past. But in this book it is fresh, written in letters and documents, of the participants.
      
Chapter 1. Discovery of and early voyages to Australia.
Chapter 2. Discovery of and early voyages to Australia (continued).
Chapter 3. Annexation of Western Australia.

Chapter 4. 1829 to 1830. Colonisation and early settlement.
Chapter 5. 1831 to 1838. Administration of sir James Stirling.
Chapter 6. 1839 to 1842. Governor Hutt's administration. Land regulations.

Projected settlement at Australind. Aborigines. Explorations.
Chapter 7. 1843 to 1849. Depression. Labour problems. Financial condition. Question of convict labour. Establishment of penal settlement.

Chapter 8. 1850 to 1853. Transition period: free colony to penal establishment. Government. Land laws. Financial conditions. Industries. General development.
Chapter 9. 1854 to 1860. Constitution and government. Improvement in land regulations and consequent agricultural and pastoral expansion. Development and extension of the convict system. Growth of the colony during the period.

Chapter 10. 1861 to 1868. Departure of governor Kennedy and arrival of Dr. J.S. Hampton. Convict administration. Incidents of the system. Progressive public works policy. Cessation of transportation. Effects of the system reviewed.

Chapter 11. 1861 to 1868 (continued). Explorations. Opening up the north-west. Trade and industry. Native troubles. Agitation for representative government.

Chapter 12. 1869 to 1875. Administration of governor weld. Constitutional changes. Progressive legislation. Land laws. Railways and telegraphs. General development. Exploration.

Chapter 13. 1875 to 1883. Agitation for alteration of constitution. Legislation. Land laws and regulations. Immigration. Railway development. Resources and industries. Convict establishment. Explorations. Miscellaneous.

Chapter 14. 1883 to 1890. Governor Broome's administration. Land regulations. Tariff revision. Finances. Resources, industries, and trade. Public works: railway and telegraph extension.

Chapter 15. 1883 to 1890 (continued). Gold discoveries: Kimberley and Yilgarn goldfields. Agitation for autonomy continued. Responsible government.

Chapter 16. 1891 to 1900. First ten years of responsible government. Constitutional and political occurrences. Phenomenal development of the goldfields. Resources, industries, and trade. Land laws and agricultural development. General.

Chapter 17. Federal movement in Western Australia.

In 1942 twelve canoeists with limpet mines to paddle one hundred miles up the Gironde estuary, in the middle of winter, in an attempt to sink German blockade ships in Bordeaux harbour. It was fully anticipated that all twelve would die in the attempt.

Only two would survive. By complete chance, the two canoeists who managed to escape - Major 'Blondie' Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks - stumbled into the arms of the French resistance. Once in their care, Hasler and Sparks made the risky and arduous journey across France and into Spain, crossing the Pyrenees in the company of a Gestapo agent intent on bringing down the entire resistance network.

Operation Suicide is the first new narrative account of this enthralling raid for over fifty years. In utilizing primary source material, including detailed German records captured by the British in 1944 (which remained censored until 1976), Robert Lyman brings to life one of the most courageous and dramatic events to take place during the Second World War's darkest days.

The passing of the Hungarian prime minister before he could realize his dream of a fascist state has little effect on crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon. Life—and death—go on in the bustling old city, and a late-night tip soon leads him to a crime scene where a young woman lies dead, a Jewish prayer book in her purse. Disturbed by the bizarre circumstances—the corpse of a beautiful, well-groomed, religious victim abandoned in one of Budapest's seedier neighborhoods—Gordon is determined to unravel the mystery of her demise, especially after her shocking identity is revealed. The investigation will lead him deep into the city's dark underbelly—a shadow world of pornographers, crime syndicates, and Communist cells—and to the highest echelons of power, where one of Hungary's most influential executives plans to make an economic killing through his strong political ties to Germany's leaders...if he can somehow keep secret the fact that he was, at one time, Jewish.

A gripping and evocative thriller, brimming with suspense and breathtaking political intrigue, Vilmos Kondor's Budapest Noir is a richly atmospheric tale of murder and betrayal from a remarkable new voice in noir detective fiction.