As the second World War comes to an end, Pence Mefford returns from active duty to New Castle, his small hometown in north central Kentucky. Now armed with his typewriter, Pence writes columns for the local paper, commenting on everything from rural life to world affairs. When war breaks out in Korea, Pence finds himself back on the battlefield, far away from home. He continues to write for the paper, reporting his first-hand perspective on a conflict that threatens to begin another world war. From Kentucky to Korea and back again, Pence's columns chronicle the path of a growing, booming America through the 1950s.

As the second World War comes to an end, Pence Mefford returns from active duty to New Castle, his small hometown in north central Kentucky. Now armed with his typewriter, Pence writes columns for the local paper, commenting on everything from rural life to world affairs. When war breaks out in Korea, Pence finds himself back on the battlefield, far away from home. He continues to write for the paper, reporting his first-hand perspective on a conflict that threatens to begin another world war. From Kentucky to Korea and back again, Pence's columns chronicle the path of a growing, booming America through the 1950s.

A prequel to his ‘World’s end’: British military outposts in the ‘ring fence’ around Australia 1824–1849, this book by prize-winning historian and keen sailor Alan Powell celebrates the small ships of Australia’s colonial navy. Brigs, cutters, schooners and sloops were pressed into service in a rag-tag assembly of ‘seagoing maids of all work’, cramped and overloaded with provisions, building materials, livestock and even convicts. The crews of these ‘doughty little craft’ sailed with courage and often blind faith in their ultimate survival as they toiled through some of the world’s most treacherous seas to deliver life-preserving supplies to the military outposts that ringed Australia in the early nineteenth century.

This is a full and revealing account of the perilous and adventurous course of the Northern Territory; a comprehensive account of its history which debunks the myths and makes human both the high and low points.During the second half of this century writers, journalists and the tourist trade have promoted the image of the Territory as Australia's last frontier. To many Australians who live south of the Tropic of Capricorn the far north is still outside the real Australia. Until recently it was an area largely neglected by Australian historians who concentrated their work on the south-east corner of the continent. Alan Powell's work was one of the first to help redress that balance.The Northern Territory is a wondrous place of bizarre natural history and eccentric personalities; of great unrest and great triumph. Far Country presents the place and its story with skill and simplicity.

Central Australia has, with reason, been seen as the last frontier of Australia and, politically, the forgotten country. This book distils the conclusions of Emeritus Professor Alan Powell, reached after more than four decades of exploring northern Australia and researching the history of white settlement and the culture clash with the original people, through war and peace, in the Northern Territory. Powell cuts through the immense array of Territory yarns and learned tomes that reflect what we know of the Centre and moves straight to the core factors of its history: the visionary explorers, driven telegraph men and miners, the cattlemen and the dreamers who felt the lure and sweep of this stark, beautiful heart of Australia and endured the impact of war, conflict and adaptation in a harsh unforgiving environment. He raises hard questions on the structure and government of the area and the past, present and future of the mix of its peoples.