Armed only with rifles, bayonets and raw courage, the men of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade left the shelter of their rocky trenches to storm The Nek, a narrow stretch of ridge held by the Ottoman Turks. The first wave of attackers were cut down almost as soon as they stood up. Those that followed knew they were going to die. Yet they too charged without question, stumbling over the bodies of their fallen comrades before they also fell.The commander of the 10th Light Horse Regiment attempted ...

On August 7th 1915, men of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade staged one of the most tragic, brave and futile charges of the First World War. Seeking to break out of the Anzac position at Gallipoli they attempted to storm an extraordinarily strong Turkish position, defended by artillery, machineguns and thousands of men, using nothing but fixed bayonets and raw courage. The first wave of Light Horsemen were killed within seconds of leaving their trench, yet over the course of the next few minutes...

From the bestselling author of Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You and Gallipoli Sniper.In The Price of Valour award-winning journalist John Hamilton gives us an extraordinary insight into the life of a real Australian hero, Hugo Throssell.From the bloody battles of The Nek and Hill 60 during the Gallipoli campaign, where Throssell won a Victoria Cross, to the Great Depression ...

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to train and develop strength, mobility and flexibility through calisthenics, without having to use any equipment. Calisthenics has been in existence since ancient greece, and has been effectively used to develop near superhuman strength, agility, and flexibility through the decades. In this book, you will find some basic and intermediate information regarding the principles behind calisthenics, as well as the advantages offered by this...

The WWI biography of a Victory Cross recipient who fought bravely at Gallipoli, only to be shunned after the war for speaking out against it.The son of a former Premier of Western Australia, Hugo Throssell volunteered to join the Imperial Australian Force during the Great War. He was shipped to Gallipoli in 1915 with the 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment, which fought in a dismounted role. He was involved in the famous charge of the 10th Light Horse at the Battle...

Everyone has those certain days when you get up; the sun is shining, there's a nice breeze under a blue sky and everything seems like a perfect day with endless possibilities. Then, something off-the-chain happens. Events turn and suddenly the day goes straight to hell in a hand-basket.What began as a beautiful day of traveling while on assignment for the cleric, Eleazaar, and his dwarven acolyte, ends up in an epic struggle for survival for themselves and thousands of others. With...

ASTRAEON — BOOK TWOThe World Does Not CloseThe Veil has been torn, but it has not fallen.In the wake of disaster, the world of Astraeon does what it has always done best: it adapts. Cities rebuild. Roads reopen. Alliances form where fear once ruled. Yet beneath the surface, something has changed — not broken, but rearranged.As ancient powers stir and the boundaries between safe ground and forbidden territory blur, Ravik and his companions are drawn deeper int...

Dive into the heart of a riveting spiritual journey with John Hamilton and Honest to God, an exploration of faith, excess, success, and the search for meaning. This book takes the reader on a raucous ride from the splintered stages of overflowing, firetrap rock clubs where liquor flowed freely and cocaine was ever-present, to the boardrooms of multi-national corporations where millions of dollars rested on creative ideas, to the ivy-covered campus of the oldest seminary in the country, and...

In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination. What John Hamilton investigates in this study is the way literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation and thereby create a crisis of language. Sp...

The World Does Not BreakAstraeon Saga — Book ThreeBy John HamiltonThe world did not break.That was the mistake.In the aftermath of catastrophe, Astraeon survives—not through victory, but through restraint.The Veil, once shattered, has strained and held. Cities rebuild. Borders harden. Containment protocols promise safety. But beyond their reach, fractured settlements are forced to adapt in quieter, more dangerous ways. Survival demands silence....

THE ASTRAEON SAGAThe sky trembles. The Veil screams. And an ancient power awakens…When a catastrophic fracture tears across the heavens, forgotten magic surges back into Astraeon—a world built on Sparks of living energy and guarded by the mysterious Veil. As ancient sigils break and long-dormant forces stir, three lives are pulled into a destiny older than the world itself:A reluctant hero marked by a forbidden Spark.Haunted by a power he never asked for—and...

Kwame, the son of a tribal chief, wants more from life than can be found in his small West African village. Working as a houseboy at the management residence of a foreign owned gold mine, his thirst for knowledge about the world has him listening to the conversations of the residents and fantasizing about one day travelling the globe himself. Until he overhears something that he wishes he hadn’t. His conscience won’t let him ignore it and he becomes entangled in a web of theft, murder and ...