Paul Rea uncovered the extraordinary story of an Australian ex-prisoner of war who had been illegally thrown into a Nazi concentration camp called Terazin in Czechoslovakia, now known as the 'Living Grave'. This soldier was stripped of any protection offered by his national and military status and was punished for doing no more than his duty: escaping from a POW camp. Further investigation tracked down more than a dozen Australian and New Zealand veterans who broke a long silence to speak about their horrendous ordeals. These soldiers' British counterparts were awarded Nazi war crime compensation, but all the ANZACs receiveved was denial by their Army and their governments. VOICES FROM A SMALL FORTRESS is a record of the extraordinary experiences of the men who survived.

Street kid Briney Ruza paints graffiti on walls as a bit of cheeky fun. But the fun turns to intrigue then danger as walls begin to use her to reveal their secrets. Secrets that reach deep into her familys connection to the WWII Czech Ghetto, Terezn. Lured to the desolate, flood-damaged, walled fortress, she encounters Evzen Kravitz, an ageing, troubled Ghetto survivor. In his quest to locate the missing link to his past, he uses the connection Briney has with the fortress walls. What they uncover is far deeper and more dangerous than either expected their deadly involvement in ongoing corruption emanating from the Holocaust and the current rise of neo-nazism. For background research, more about Terezn and some reviews go to www.ogdenimprint.com

Based on the true story of the Caetanis, Italian nobility driven into exile by the rise of fascism, this novel follows this once glittering family to British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. When Ofelia Caetani takes her daughter, Sveva, into seclusion after the death of the duke, they are cared for by their personal secretary, Miss Juul, who brings her own secrets to their twenty-five year retreat from the world. As the stories of these three remarkable women unfurl in unexpected and often tragic ways, Little Fortress is revealed as a graceful and intricate tale of friendship, class, trust, betrayal, and, ultimately, love.

The aim of this book is to explore the phenomenon of the electrified voice through interdisciplinary approaches such as media and technology studies, social history, and comparative cultural studies. The book focuses on three problem clusters: reflections on the societal level about the task of electronic voice transmission; the mediation of gender- and occupation-specific vocal stereotypes in audio and audio-visual formats; and the genesis of such vocal stereotypes in national radio and film cultures. Such a historicizing approach to societal experience in the field of voice mediation, including the use and interpretation of voice media, is today of great relevance in light of the collective learning processes currently triggered by rapid advances in technology.