Disasters That Changed Australia
$65.83
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2009
Summary
Australian history is full of disasters. Some are natural, but many more are man-made, the results of individual or collective stupidity, reckless decisions, or greed.
In Disasters that Changed Australia, Richard Evans nominates the worst disasters in an engrossing, insightful account of what happened and why. Picture British General Douglas Haig, through sheer arrogance and determination, sending thousands of Australian men into swampy, disease-ridden enemy territory for no …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522856491 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522856497 |
| Author: | Richard Evans |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 153mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Richard Evans
Richard Evans is the author of The Pyjama Girl Mystery- A True Story of Murder, Obsession and Lies, and co-author of Constructing Australia. He has a PhD in history from Monash University, and works as a Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology.
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