In the heart of WWII, when Hitler turned his attentions to conquering North Africa, a distracted Allied force could not give its all to the defence of the city of Tobruk in Libya. So the job was left to the roughest, toughest bunch they could muster. This book presents the story of this incredible b[...]

Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision[...]