Collection: Reference

After Napoleon's defeat and exile on Elba in 1814, it looked as if his military career had come to an end. But then he escaped and made a last stand, which climaxed on June 18, 1815, when Prussian, British, and French soldiers clashed at Waterloo.

The battlefields of the First World War from the first cavalry skirmishes, through the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele, to the final weeks of conflict. Collection of over 200 panoramic photographs of the Western Front taken throughout the war.

Definitions of more than 700 literary and critical terms. In addition to illustrative examples from canonical and contemporary literature, the glossary uses 100s of references to popular culture including television, movies, music, newspapers....

Includes articles on Aboriginal cricketers, Aboriginal names, Aboriginals: annual conference with, attacks by, call of communication between, ceremonies amongst, funeral rites, conflicts with, grants of land to, languages of, marriage laws of, military proceedings against, missions to, numbers of...

Chronicles the lives and work of the sketch artists from the thirties to the present, situating them in the history of modern art and analysing their lives and interactions with the studio (and Walt Disney himself).

This guide was written with the intention of providing the reader with an overview of the history of post settlement in the Nepean District with additional highlights from each period in its history.