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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Sydney in wartime -- Important people in our story -- 1939: Phoney War -- 1940: Waiting gaily here -- 1941: A lot of gazelles -- 1942: 'In the Mood' -- 1943: As bad as can be conceived -- 1944: Normal, banal, familiar -- 1945 You'll shoot out the other side of Christmas -- Epilogue: 'Don't Fence Me In' -- Notes on sources -- List of illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1966 How Sydney Worked -- 1967 When Shirley Met Freddie -- 1968 The End of The Lanes -- 1969 The Venus of The Reef -- 1970 Raking It In -- 1971 Reading Paddy's Book -- 1972 An End and a Beginning -- An Open Question: Was Robert Askin corrupt? -- Notes -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Examines presidential power within the context of U.S. history and the ongoing relationships presidents and ex-presidents formed with one another

Cet article examine la manière dont l'Angleterre parvint à surmonter les dangers hydrographiques et climatiques, les difficultés de navigation et les menaces navales pesant sur le trafic maritime entrant dans la Manche par l'ouest ; et dont elle réussit à mettre en place des solutions pour réduire les risques propres à cette zone, ce qui permit de pérenniser la suprématie commerciale et maritime britannique tout au long des guerres franco-anglaises de 1689 à 1815.

A very important analysis of British naval victualling, with wide implications for economic as well as naval history.' N.A.M. RODGER, All Souls College, Oxford. This book, by a leading French maritime historian, discusses how Britain's success in the Seven Years War (1756-63) was made possible by the creation of a superb victualling system for the British navy. It shows how this system had been developed over the preceding centuries, how it balanced carefully the advantages of state control with the flexibility of commercial contracting, and how the system was designed to mesh with and support British strategic ambitions. It provides rich detail on how the system worked, how it was administered, how key products were priced, bought, stored and transported, and how it compared, very favourably, to equivalent systems in France and elsewhere. The book shows how the increasing efficiency of the Victualling Board enabled the navy to take advantage of agricultural, commercial and financial advances in the British economy to supply its front line fighting forces over ever longer distances and ever longer periods. The Victualling Board was one of a number of interfaces between the demands of the State and the supply facilities of the economy, to their mutual benefit. As a major purchaser through competitive tender, the Board made a positive contribution to the entrepreneurial spirit of British society. The book goes beyond maritime history by discussing how naval supply provided a huge stimulus for British finance, agriculture, trade and manufacturing, and argues that all this together was one of the principal causes of Britain's later Industrial Revolution. CHRISTIAN BUCHET is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre d'Etudes de la Mer at the Institut Catholique de Paris. Besides comparative studies of the British and French navies 1688-1783, he has written extensively on maritime environmental issues and is Secretary General of the National Council of the French Archipelago