The 4 volumes in this set, originally published between 1980 and 1983, bring to light and focus on the conflict between Japan and Australia and Japan and the USA. Timothy Hall's volumes, richly illustrated with black & white photographs, used highly contentious documents as their sources and give fascinating insights into a period of Australian history which is sometimes less than gloious. John J. Sbrega's tour de force is not only one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA and Japan in World War 2 ever published, but it also provides invaluable information on lesser known but no less important aspects of the conflict.

1. Introduction Florence S. Boos 2. Alternative Victorian Futures: 'Historicism' Past and Present and A Dream of John Ball Florence S. Boos 3. Interpreting Victorian Medievalism Charles Dellheim 4. The Myth of Merrie England in Victorian Painting Rebecca Jeffrey Easby 5. Tennyson's Hierarchy of Women in Idylls of the King Rebecca Cochran 6. William Morris's Late Romances: The Struggle Against Closure Hartley S. Spatt 7. Marxism, Medievalism and Popular Culture Chris Waters 8. Ralph Adams Cram: Last Knight of the Gothic Quest Charlotte H. Oberg Reviews: The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman by Mark Girouard Debra Mancoff the Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature by Kevin L. Morris Carolyn Collette. Bibliography of Victorian Historicism and Medievalism