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Catch up with Top Achievers - 2020 HSC and Beyond by Adam Ma (Contribution by, Founded by, Compiled by); Lachlan Tran (Contribution by); Zair Ahmed (Contribution by); Seohyeong Lim (Contribution by); Emma Scroope (Contribution by); Daniel Monteiro (Contribution by); Wenquan Lu (Contribution by); Nicholas Fakira (Contribution by); Lara Hather (Contribution by); Finn Vercoe (Contribution by); Tallulah-Rose Adams (Contribution by); Fionn Parker (Editor-In-Chief); Julia Lo Russo (Contribution by); Christopher Farag (Contribution by); Sarah Kaunk (Contribution by); Jesse Caminer (Contribution by, Editor); Sophie Howard (Contribution by); Adam Gottschalk (Contribution by); John Wang (Contribution by); Patrick Nah (Contribution by); Matthew Drielama (Contribution by); Adam Robey (Contribution by)
Category: Education
"They were born smart," - a clueless student.Catch Up With Top Achievers: 2020 HSC and Beyond is a collection of articles written by the best performing HSC students in the State - HSC State Rankers. In our study guide, each author outlines their unique and results-driven study strategies. They also pro ...Show more
Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker
Category: Military
"Hell's Gorge" traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions and amid epidemics of fever, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama, a scale of ...Show more
Monte Cassino by Matthew Parker
Category: History
At the beginning of 1944 Italy was the western Allies' only active front against Nazi-controlled Europe, and their only route to the capital was through the Liri valley. Towering over the entrance to the valley was the medieval monastery of Monte Cassino, a seemingly impenetrable fortress high up in the ...Show more
Monte Cassino - The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II by Matthew Parker
Category: Military
Monte Cassino is the true story of one of the bitterest and bloodiest of the Allied struggles against the Nazi army. Long neglected by historians, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the carnag ...Show more
Monte Cassino: The Story of the Hardest-fought Battle of World War Two by Matthew Parker
Category: History
The six-month battle for Monte Cassino was Britain's bitterest and bloodiest encounter with the German army on any front in World War Two. At the beginning of 1944 Italy was the western Allies' only active front against Nazi-controlled Europe, and their only route to the capital was through the Liri val ...Show more
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
'Marvellous...escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of EmpirelandThe story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before29th Sept ...Show more
The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker
Category: History
For 200 years after 1650, the West Indies witnessed one of the greatest power struggles of the age, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it was known as white gold. This book tells how the islands became by far most valuable and importa ...Show more
The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker
Category: History
The contemporary image of the West Indies as paradise islands conceals a turbulent, dramatic and shocking history. For 200 years after 1650, the West Indies witnessed one of the greatest power struggles of the age, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so ...Show more
Willoughbyland by Matthew Parker
Category: History
From the Sunday Timesbestselling historian, Matthew Parker, comes Willoughbyland, the untold story of England's lost South American colony - a seventeenth-century tale of empire, El Dorado and violent rebellion, of spies, trickery and forbidden love.
Willoughbyland Englands Lost Colony by Matthew Parker
Category: History
At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland. When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series of adventu ...Show more
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