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ALAN WARREN is the author of the critically acclaimed Singapore 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat. He has been a fellow of the State Library of Victoria and has lectured in history at Monash University.

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RUTH HERMAN has a career in PR and lecturing at university level. Now retired, she enjoys writing to make history engaging and accessible to the general reader. Her first book, The Incredibly Biased ...

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MICHAEL R. BAILEY is a railway historian who has undertaken projects for museums in England, Canada and Denmark. He writes and lectures (and occasionally acts as a TV consultant) and was a consultant ...

'The Finest Feat of Arms' ...

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Extraordinary and thrilling … This story should be known to every man, woman and child’ – Lemn Sissay In 1868, British troops ...

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