The untold story of one of the finest Australian air crews in World War II, and one of the most dangerous missions of the war in Europe.Bruce Buckham was captain of one of the finest Lancaster crews in World War II. The Australians were famous for their exploits in the air and infamous for their hijinks on the ground.Buckham's crew flew night after night against heavily-defended targets in Germany - including during the Battle of Berlin, the bloodiest campa...

The ultimate snapshot of every country in the world featuring new local insights from travel experts and the top experiences for each destination.Spot wildlife in Australia's lush green Daintree Rainforest; tour Japan's exquisite temples in Kyoto; discover Gaudi masterpieces in Spain's buzzing Barcelona. Get to know the amazing countries that populate our planet and start planning your next big adventure.Inside the...

Dive headfirst into Slovenia and discover everything you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime.Slovenia rewards curiosity - discover tranquil spa villages nestled in unspoilt nature and alpine lakes overlooked by medieval castles. Our on-the-ground experts have sipped wine in the Vipava Valley, relaxed in an open-air salt bath at Lepa Vida Thalasso Spa, and ventured on a walking tour of Maribor. Just think of us as your friend on the inside. If it's ...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Europe**.**Discover Europe's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from digging into a delicious smorgasbord of Nordic cuisine in the Danish capital of Copenhagen; to island-hopping in Greece where perfect golden beaches await; and roaming the illustrious Alhambra, Granada's 1,000-year-old fort and palace c...

Dive headfirst into the Western Balkans and discover everything you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime.The Western Balkans rewards curiosity - discover idyllic terracotta-roofed villages that overlook crystal-clear waters, and marble-paved old towns that lead to world-famous ancient sites. Our on-the-ground experts have explored the enchanting ruins of Butrint, dived into Lake Ohrid, and danced the night away in Hvar. Just think of us as your friend on the...

The Web changes how people use content; not just content on the Web, but all content. If your content is not easy to find and immediately helpful, readers will move on almost at once. We are all children of the Web, and we come to any information system, including product documentation, looking for the search box and expecting every search to work like Google. There is no first, last, previous, next, up, or back anymore. Every Page is Page One.In this ground-breaking book, Mark Bak...

The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal mine before the atomic bombings brought World War II to an end.When the Japanese seized most of South-East Asia in early 1942, they captured 22,000 Australian military pers...

Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet******Trans-Siberian Railway is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gaze through the window at the unfurling landscape as you pass, glimpse Lake Baikal, Russia’s sacred sea, or gawk at Moscow’s Kremlin at one end of your journey and Beijing’s Forbidden City at the other end -all with your trusted t...

Phillip Schuler, a handsome young journalist from the Melbourne Age, covered the Gallipoli campaign alongside Charles Bean. His bravery was legendary. His dispatches were evocative and compassionate. He captured the heroism and horror for Australian newspaper readers in ways the meticulous yet dry prose of Bean never could.Gallipoli would also propel Schuler on a collision course with his former friend and Age colleague Keith Murdoch, who made his name lobbying against the campaign...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the ultimate short trip to Prague - and discover twice the city in half the time!Discover Prague's most popular experiences, must-see attractions, and unexpected surprises - neighbourhood by neighbourhood - with our handy-sized Pocket travel guide. From sipping a brew at the Prague Beer Museum, to taking a stroll around Stromovka park, and ma...

In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment types - accusative, ergative, tripartite, marked nominative, or marked absolutive - this theory has been developed and tested against unrelated languages of each type, and more than twenty non-Indo-European languages are considered in depth. While affirming that case can be assigned to noun phrases by ...

Because many modern Christians can offer a reasonable explanation of the meaning of Jesus' death on the cross, they find it hard to understand the confusion displayed by the disciples after the events in the last pages of the Gospels. But if Paul were alive today, he would find it inexplicable that we modern believers are not scandalized by the cross.Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross introduces pastors, church leaders, students, and lay readers to the need for contextua...