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 ...

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...

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 ...

Surreptitious poisonings on humans is a more common occurrence than one might think. I have survived surreptitious poisonings or toxic chemicals from 3 different evil individuals on this planet. Some of the known chemicals which have been in my body due to surreptitious poisonings are uranium, arsenic, copper, barium and insect repellent. I am currently still being poisoned by criminals as this book is being published. Poisons can be odorless, tasteless and colorless which makes it hard to...

Winner of the Goldsmith Book PrizeWinner of the AEJMC History Division Book AwardWinner of the AJHA Book of the YearWinner of the Culbert Family Book PrizeManipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state. During the Great War, the federa...

Everyone knows which books people buy; they can just look at the best-seller lists. But who knows which books people steal? Who, for that matter, knows that authors ruin the book market by writing too much? Or why book critics are not critical? Or why librarians need to throw out more books? Who, indeed, knows the answer to that all-important question in our democracy: should presidents and presidential candidates write books? (The answer is no.)In this irreverent analysis of the bo...

As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, “the Word became Flesh.” Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import. It speaks to the nature of God just as much as to the nature of language.In Philology of the Flesh, John T. Hamilton explores writing and reading practices that engage this notion in a range of poetic enterprises and theoretical reflections. By pressing the notion of philology ...

Winnipeg was Canada’s first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2,700 people in 1877 to a fully modern metropolis of 100,000 in just thirty years and by then had a university, newspapers, publishing firms, a major theatre, and a vibrant mass of immigrants who flooded in to open up the West.Growing Winnipeg was served with paddle-wheelers on t...

In all of journalism, nowhere are the stakes higher than in foreign news-gathering. For media owners, it is the most difficult type of reporting to finance; for editors, the hardest to oversee. Correspondents, roaming large swaths of the planet, must acquire expertise that home-based reporters take for granted—facility with the local language, for instance, or an understanding of local cultures. Adding further to the challenges, they must put news of the world in context for an audience wi...