The Never Never is the name of a vast, remote area of the Australian Outback, as described in Barroft Boake's poem: Where the Dead Men Lie:Out on the wastes of the Never Never -That's where the dead men lie!There were the heat-waves dance foreve...
A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship. R...
Through interviews, historical accounts, and numerous years of research, Richard Holmes examines the behavior of men in battle through the course of war.In this compelling attempt to explain the nature of war, the experience of a soldier during the d...