Diaries in Ceylon (1908-1911)
Before writing his political essays and fiction works the author served as a member of the British Civil Service in Ceylon (current Sri Lanka) for seven years. These are the official working diaries during...
History, Contemporary
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
The author puts together interviews with hundreds of people who were working in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on 9/11, their loved ones, friends, relatives, military personnel, police officers, firemen,...
Charles Kingsford Smith and those Magnificent Men
Charles Kingsford Smith or 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the German Air Force for which he won the Military...
The Sisters of Auschwitz
The year: 1940; the place: occupied Netherlands. This is the true story of the Brilleslijper sisters, Janny and Lien, and their selfless courage in fearlessly hiding fellow Jews, mostly from their wide...
Hitler and the Germans
The book collects lectures by the author in 1964. It seeks to analyze how Nazism was possible in Germany. For Voegelin all German institutions - military, judges, teachers, churches, etc. - were omitted or...
Gallipoli
An excellent account of the failed Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. It looks at the Turkish, Australian and some English perspectives as the battle for the Gallipoli peninsula continued for over six months. The...
Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, an operator pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. This started a process that led to the explosion of the reactor, exposing the core,...
And Agnes Chose to Die
Published in 1949, this novel received the Viareggio Award. It’s based on a real story that Renata Viganò (Bologna,1900-1976) lived during the partisan resistance against fascism and German invasion, in a...
The Story of Australia's People. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
Most of the book focuses on the Aboriginal people, their customs, food sources and occasional polygamy. As a nomadic people, they practiced infanticide and abortion to be able to travel relatively...
My Early Life, 1874-1908
The title describes the theme of the book, where he narrates his own memories from his early life: at school, he performed poorly, but he was much more succesful on joining the Army. Sent to India with the...