One Complicated Side of the Croatian Story
A critical review of Les Shaw's book TRIAL BY SLANDER argues the work offers a partisan, hasteful account of Croatian Australia. It contends the history section relies on Times and Observer transcripts and portrays Croats amid wartime alliances and postwar strife, while the Australia section challenges anti Croatia rhetoric and questions credibility of certain figures.
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Yugoslavia
Australia
Shaw
Croatia
London Times and Observer
The
New York Times
Fr Shaw
Ournhappy
Tal
Germany
Italy
Russia
Ustashe
Sp4l
Croata
TRA
Stalingrad
Austria
Ivan Mudrinic
Marijan Jurjevic
Goodbye Dreamtime review warns of potential Sharpville clash
McNally's Goodbye Dreamtime surveys Aboriginal harsh realities in Australia. It interviews politicians, radicals, and Indigenous leaders while detailing police treatment, land rights, and jail statistics that highlight systemic discrimination and rising tensions. The book argues for urgent reform to avert violence.
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Sharpville
Charles Perkins
Styrnal
Black Panthers
Denis Walker
Freedom
Salone
USA
Australia
Queensland
Canberra
Palm Island “Reserve
MecNally
Neville Bonner
Senate
Bonner
Sally
Palm Island
McNally
Paul R. Wilson
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
University of Queensland
Omie
Western Australia
Wilson
A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury Review
Edith Pargeter remakes Shakespeare in a historical novel about Hotspur Lord Henry Percy and his fall from favor with Henry IV. The tale spans Hotspur's bond with Prince Hal and Glendower, detailing the bloody field by Shrewsbury and the era’s politics, love, and loyalty.
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Shrewsbury
Edith Pargeter
Macmillan
Edith Pargeters
Henry IV
Henry Percy
Northumberland
Hotspur
Henry of
Bolingbroke
Richard II
Duke of Lancaster
England
Percy
Richard
Prince
Prince of Wales
Henry
Hal
Hias
Owen Glendower
Paperback poets add McAuley and Stewart to catalog
The house of paperback poets continues to push best sellers into paperback formats with James McAuley Collected Poems 1936 1970 and Douglas Stewart Selected Poems 1936 1967. This autumn notices an autobiographical work about Nazi horror survivor Martin Gray known as For Those I Loved.
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James McAuley
Douglas Stewart
Martin Gray
Bor Mietek Grayevsky
Poland
Warsaw Ghetto
Gray
Treblinka
Berlin
USA
France
A Hard Look at a Best Seller
The review examines Martin Gray's For Those I Loved, noting conflicts between Gray’s Treblinka account and the Insight team findings. It contrasts Gray's narrative with survivors' memories, cites discrepancies about the camp's facilities, and questions authenticity while acknowledging the book’s popularity and appeal.
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Gray
Treblinka
Sunday Times
Bodley Head
Insight
Home Away From Home by James Blish review
Graham Stone reviews Home Away From Home by James Blish. The critique notes the novel uses a doomed Earthlike planet as a stand in for another world, handling themes of survival, morality, and human limits. The reviewer questions plausibility of an Earth substitute and sketches weaknesses in worldbuilding and character focus.
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Bish
Noah
Blish
Sol Os
Earth
Edward Dicey and the American Journey in 19th Century Perspective
A review of Edward Dicey’s 1863 travel narrative reissued for the first time in a century in The Spectator. The piece praises his balanced, gentlemanly reportage on US life, freedom and equality, wartime politics, and manners, noting his nuanced views on wealth, press, and Northern war sentiment while preserving the record of his impressions and judgments.
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Edward Dicey
The
Spectator
Macmillan
Alhoush
Dicey
Britain
America
Washington
Lincoln
White House
United States
Sincoln
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Red Army
Inter
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Lara- Tell
Armedara
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Job
Henri Charriere
Slavomir Ravich
China
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Ton Thriess
Alan Moorehead
Rohan Rivett
Frederick Wilkinson
Ward Lock
James Blish
Faber
Graham Stone
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Ray Bradbury
Mars
de Tocqueville
Dickens
Wal Pole
Stevenson
Egon
Elsie Kunz
Beverley Proud
Reee
Spectator OF Amerc4
R. Edward Dicev
Herbert Mitgang
Gollancz
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Prewies
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Scoop
Odyssey World Atlas
Universal Edition
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Garema Place
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