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Author : Rupert Lockwood
Publisher : Sydney, N.S.W. : Hale & Iremonger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black Armada written by Rupert Lockwood and published by Sydney, N.S.W. : Hale & Iremonger. This book was released on 1982 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995621503
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Lovecraftesque written by Joshua Fox and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovecraftesque is a GMless storytelling game of brooding cosmic horror. Tell the story of a lone Witness at the mercy of strange and terrifying events. The game helps you create a slow-building mystery, culminating in a climactic scene of horror. LOVECRAFTESQUE IS A GAME FOR 2-5 PEOPLE AND TAKES 3-4 HOURS TO PLAY.
Author : Rupert Lockwood
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
ISBN 13 : 9789793780948
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Black Armada written by Rupert Lockwood and published by Equinox Publishing (Indonesia). This book was released on 2013 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So incisive is Rupert Lockwood's account of Australian assistance to the Indonesian rebellion against the Dutch that Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Commander, Southeast Asia Command and the leader of the Anglo-Dutch intervention in Java in 1945, was moved to write to Lockwood, "I have read all you have written with great interest and it explains a lot that happened to us in South East Asia Command Headquarters." Rupert Lockwood, correspondent for such diverse newspapers as the Melbourne "Herald" and "Tribune," a journalist in Moscow, radical publicist and veteran of the Petrov inquiry, witnessed many of the events he so vividly describes. He recalls the campaign to release Indonesian political prisoners detained by the Dutch in Australian POW camps and examines the boycotts and mutinies in Australia that crippled Dutch attempts to reoccupy their former colony. He reveals deep-going anti-colonial attitudes not often suspected in White Australia, discusses the impact of the union boycotts on the armed forces and war supplies of the only foreign regime to which Australia has ever played host, and brings to light Australian ambitions for an independent influence in Asia. More than forty contemporary cartoons and photographs and previously unpublished stills from the Australian film Indonesia Calling unite with the text to produce an exciting and moving account of a critical period in Australia's foreign relations.
Author : Ernest Cline
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0804137269
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Armada written by Ernest Cline and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could. Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure. So when he sees the flying saucer, he's sure his years of escapism have finally tipped over into madness. Especially because the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of his favorite videogame, a flight simulator callled Armada--in which gamers just happen to be protecting Earth from alien invaders. As impossible as it seems, what Zack's seeing is all too real. And it's just the first in a blur of revlations that will force him to question everything he thought he knew about Earth's history, its future, even his own life--and to play the hero for real, with humanity's life in the balance. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking: Doesn't something about this scenario feel a little bit like...well...fiction? At once reinventing and paying homage to science-fiction classics as only Ernest Cline can, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before.
Author : Lachlan Grant
Publisher : NewSouth
ISBN 13 : 1742241840
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Australian Soldiers in Asia-Pacific in World War II written by Lachlan Grant and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a million Australians encountered a new world when they entered Asia and the Pacific during World War II: different peoples, cultures, languages and religions chafing under the grip of colonial rule. Moving beyond the battlefield, this book tells the story of how mid-century experiences of troops in Asia-Pacific shaped how we feel about our nation’s place in the region and the world. Spanning the vast region from New Guinea to Southeast Asia and India, Lachlan Grant uncovers affecting tales of friendship, grief, spiritual awakening, rebellion, incarceration, sex and souvenir hunting. Focusing on the day-to-day interactions between soldiers on the ground and the people and cultures they encountered, this book paints a picture not only of individual lives transformed, but of dramatically shifting national perceptions, as the gaze of Australia turned from Britain to Asia.
Author : Rupert Lockwood
Publisher : Sydney South : Australasian Book Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black Armada written by Rupert Lockwood and published by Sydney South : Australasian Book Society. This book was released on 1975 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Lindsey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509918175
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Strangers Next Door? written by Tim Lindsey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no two neighbouring countries anywhere in the world that are more different than Indonesia and Australia. They differ hugely in religion, language, culture, history, geography, race, economics, worldview and population (Indonesia, 270 million, Australia less than 10 per cent of that). In fact, Indonesia and Australia have almost nothing in common other than the accident of geographic proximity. This makes their relationship turbulent, volatile and often unpredictable. Strangers Next Door? brings together insiders and leading observers to critically assess the state of Australia–Indonesia relations and their future prospects, offering insights into why the relationship is so important for Australia, why it is so often in crisis, and what this means for the future. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the Indo-Pacific region, Southeast Asia, Australia and Indonesia, and each country's politics, economy and foreign policy. It contains chapters that will interest specialists but are written in a style accessible to a general audience. The book spans a diverse range of subjects, including political relations and diplomacy, security and defence, the economy and trade, Islam, education, development, the arts, legal cooperation, the media, women, and community ties. Contributors assess the current state of relations in their sphere of expertise, and outline the factors and policies that could shape bilateral ties – and Indonesia's future – over the coming decades. University of Melbourne scholars Tim Lindsey and Dave McRae, both prominent observers and commentators on Indonesia and its relations with Australia, edited the volume, providing a synthesising overview as well as their own thematic chapters.
Author : Ronald M. McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135067546
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Nonviolent Action written by Ronald M. McCarthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to research, sources, and theories about nonviolent action as a technique of struggle in social and political conficts discusses the methods and techniques used by groups in various encounters. Although violence and its causes have received a great deal of attention, nonviolent action has not received its due as an international phenomenon with a long history. An introduction that explains the theories and research used in the study provides a practical guide to this essential bibliography of English-language sources. The first part of the book covers case-study materials divided by region and subdivided by country. Within each country, materials are arranged chronologically and topically. The second major part examines the methods and theory of nonviolent action, principled nonviolence, and several closely related areas in social science, such as conflict analysis and social movements. The book is indexed by author and subject.
Author : Alan Gilbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226293092
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Black Patriots and Loyalists written by Alan Gilbert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising look at the roles of African Americans in the Revolutionary War: “An elegant and passionate writer, Alan Gilbert pulls no punches.”—Historian We think of the American Revolution as the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Drawing on first-person accounts and primary sources, Alan Gilbert asks us to rethink what we know about the Revolutionary War, to realize that while white Americans were fighting for their freedom, many black Americans were joining the British imperial forces to gain theirs. Further, a movement led by sailors—both black and white—pushed strongly for emancipation on the American side. There were actually two wars being waged at once: a political revolution for independence from Britain, and a social revolution for emancipation and equality—planting the seeds for future freedom. “The personal stories of those who fought on the patriots’ side in an all-black regiment and on the loyalist side in exchange for a promise of freedom are fascinating and informative.”—Booklist
Author : John E. Muller
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 147320433X
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)
Download or read book The Ultimate Man written by John E. Muller and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since science began seriously investigating the potentials of electronics, man has toyed with the idea of creating robots. The dawn of the robot age has already broken. We have automatic telephone exchanges. We fly planes with robot pilots. We send self-sufficient instruments into the void to record and transmit cosmic information. Frobisher was a brilliant theorist, years ahead of his time. He worked out a scheme that took long patient decades of planning. His great moment came. The robots were a success. Frobisher was a kindly old man. There was nothing evil in his plans. But the world is not entirely inhabited by kindly old men with high visions. Someone else got hold of the plans and the robots embarked on a career of international crime and pillage. Despite his pacifist ideals, the old professor tried to combat the evil which he had unwittingly released . . . the results were staggering.
Author : Ronald Spector
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812967321
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book In the Ruins of Empire written by Ronald Spector and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even more revealing. In the Ruins of Empire chronicles the startling aftermath of this crucial twentieth-century conflict. With access to recently available firsthand accounts by Chinese, Japanese, British, and American witnesses and previously top secret U.S. intelligence records, Spector tells for the first time the fascinating story of the deadly confrontations that broke out–or merely continued–in Asia after peace was proclaimed at the end of World War II. Under occupation by the victorious Allies, this part of the world was plunged into new power struggles or back into old feuds that in some ways were worse than the war itself. In the Ruins of Empire also shows how the U.S. and Soviet governments, as they secretly vied for influence in liberated lands, were soon at odds. At the time of the peace declaration, international suspicions were still strong. Joseph Stalin warned that “crazy cutthroats” might disrupt the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay. Die-hard Japanese officers plotted to seize the emperor’s palace to prevent an announcement of surrender, and clandestine relief forces were sent to rescue thousands of Allied POWs to prevent their being massacred. In the Ruins of Empire paints a vivid picture of the postwar intrigues and violence. In Manchuria, Russian “liberators” looted, raped, and killed innocent civilians, and a fratricidal rivalry continued between Chiang Kai-shek’s regime and Mao’s revolutionaries. Communist resistance forces in Malaya settled old scores and terrorized the indigenous population, while mujahideen holy warriors staged reprisals and terror killings against the Chinese–hundreds of innocent civilians were killed on both sides. In Indochina, a nativist political movement rose up to oppose the resumption of French colonial rule; one of the factions that struggled for supremacy was the Communist Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh. Korea became a powder keg with the Russians and Americans entangled in its north and south. And in Java, as the Indonesian novelist Idrus wrote, people brutalized by years of Japanese occupation “worshipped a new God in the form of bombs, submachine guns, and mortars.” Through impeccable research and provocative analysis, as well as compelling accounts of American, British, Indian, and Australian soldiers charged with overseeing the surrender and repatriation of millions of Japanese in the heart of dangerous territory, Spector casts new and startling light on this pivotal time–and sets the record straight about this contested and important period in history.
Author : Shanti Moorthy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135269033
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Indian Ocean Studies written by Shanti Moorthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famously referred to as the "cradle of globalization," the Indian Ocean has received increasing attention from scholars. However, few have examined the 'human' dimensions of the ocean. In this volume, historians, geographers, anthropologists and literary analysts each address a specific human factor in Indian Ocean exchanges.
Author : Chester A. Wright
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434370607
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Black Men and Blue Water written by Chester A. Wright and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a warm summer afternoon when Bill and his little sister Nell headed out with their fishing poles and snacks for the little pond in the meadow. "Be home in time for supper," Mother called as she waved goodbye. Later that afternoon while sitting beneath a shade tree eating their snacks, they spied off in the distance a rusted old steam engine with a caboose attached behind. On exploring it further, they encounter unexpected events that prevent them from ever making it home in time for supper. Enjoy this mixture of adventure, fantasy, suspense and Christian morals all in one as you follow Bill and Nell through their adventures into the unknown.
Author : William Dickson Boyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book United States Colonies and Dependencies, Illustrated written by William Dickson Boyce and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Percy Frazier Jr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781970066234
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (662 download)
Download or read book Black Widow written by Percy Frazier Jr and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Micah Volkavic gained a fortune it had itself been ill gotten but to him it was the key to beginning his quest for world dominance. He found a way to resurrect the powerful battleships lost at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 but he made them all far, far more lethal than they'd been back then. It took him years to build but one day from a depth of two-hundred feet beneath the Pacific Ocean, two hundred miles northwest of Midway Island the underwater hideout was open but something came from the depths that was horrible and this, "Armada" really WAS dark as these mighty ships had become invisible and raised havoc across the United States. Now and with the help of the United States Navy and the Russian Navy, Black Widow must find a way to stop him or like the rest of the world, be dominated BY him
Author : Prue Torney-Parlicki
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868405308
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Somewhere in Asia written by Prue Torney-Parlicki and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1941 to 1975, as a series of military conflicts gripped Asia and the Pacific, Australian journalism was dominated by war reporting from the region. Torney-Parlicki (history, U. of Melbourne) argues that the reporting went beyond the usual discussion of military strategy and, in an important way.
Author : Vassilios Kotronias
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949859088
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Fight 1.d4 with the Tarrasch! written by Vassilios Kotronias and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Complete Fighting Repertoire against 1.d4! Do you like active piece play? Fighting for the initiative from move one? The Tarrasch Defense just may be what you are looking for. Its advantages include: (1) It can be played against pretty much anything: 1.Nf3, 1.c4, 1.g3, 1.d4. Play 1...e6, 2...d5 and 3...c5 and you are there! (2) It leads most of the time to a typical IQP pawn structure, and it is difficult for White to change the course of the opening. (3) Black’s pieces naturally enjoy open lines and active posts so it’s easy to play the opening moves quickly and successfully! This book is exceptional! Tarrasch exponents have been blessed in the past years with some excellent works, and this book continues this happy trend. It is both a detailed reference manual and a source of inspiration. For example, in the main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.g3 Nf6 7.Bg2 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.dxc5, I was intrigued to see such interesting analysis of the unusual gambit line 9...d4 as well as the main line 9...Bxc5. I was also very impressed by the work that Vassilios put into the awkward sidelines such as 3.Nf3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5, discovering a wealth of active possibilities in quiet-looking positions. I am certain that this book will become an essential tool both for experienced Tarrasch players and future aficionados! – Grandmaster Matthew Sadler in his Foreword Greek grandmaster Vassilios Kotronias is well-known for his excellent analytical work and writing style which presents the material in a way that is comprehensive and easy to understand. In this book – his first for Russell Enterprises – he offers a thorough system for Black against 1.d4. That includes responses to other systems such as the Colle, Trompowsky, London, etc. So, are you ready to stake your claim as Black, fighting from the first move? The Tarrasch may be just what you are looking for!
