{"product_id":"9781742231266-secondhand-a-three-cornered-life-the-historian-w-k-hancock","title":"A Three-cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock","description":"While W.K. Hancock may no longer be described as 'Australia's most distinguished historian', he has some enduring claims to our attention. No other Australian historian - and few elsewhere - can match his 'span', to use one of his watchwords. Hancock was a major historian in four or five fields, who himself made history by going on a mission to Uganda for the British government in 1954 to mediate the future of Buganda after its ruler had been exiled. He was also, from a room in the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, the editor of a vast historical project: the writing of a series of accounts of British mobilisation on the home front during the Second World War. In addition, Hancock was a founder of the Australian National University, while his  Australia  (1930) remains one of the classic accounts of this country.  A Three-Cornered Life  is a superbly written and thorough biography of one of the finest twentieth century historians.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49180930310363,"sku":"9781742231266-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8dbfc95a-4421-460c-b469-f11b999cf9ce.jpg?v=1787657165","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781742231266-secondhand-a-three-cornered-life-the-historian-w-k-hancock","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}