Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan

Mike Carlton

In 1924, the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia Iwas sunk off Sydney Heads. Once she had been the pride of the navy and the nation. She had saved Australia from an attack by a German squadron in the Pacific in World War I.But after the war she was obsolete, and a victim in the race to disarm after ...

The Most Dammed Country in the World

Dai Qing

The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected here detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise....