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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jacqueline Reiter
Quicksilver Captain is the story of Sir Home Popham (1762-1820), an extraordinary and under-appreciated personality of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Popham was a bundle of highly unusual contradictions…
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An examination of the lifecycle of soldiers, including enlistment, experiences of military life, the soldier’s place in society and in politics, and military identity, memory and representation.