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Horrie the Wog-Dog

Author : Ion Idriess
Publisher : ETT Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1925416984
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Horrie the Wog-Dog written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The true story of Horrie the Wog-Dog who was adopted by the Australian Signal Platoon of the M/G Battalion, in spite of all rules against keeping pets, and how Horrie not only won his stripes as a valuable addition to the group but had the further distinction of being smuggled into Australia on their return. The Wog-Dog was sneaked into Greece, went through the evacuation, carried messages as well as proving a dependable warning against air attacks. He went to Syria and Palestine, never learning to tolerate Arabs - he suffered cold and sickness, he fell in love with Ishmi, he was bombed off his ship and he never once was found during all necessary cover-up travelling. A story for all dog lovers, in spite of heavy Australian slang and style, of a dinkum Aussie who was kept, protected and loved by dinkum Aussies. Sentimentality over canines seldom misses fire.' - Kirkus Review (USA)

Horrie the Wog-dog

Author : Ion Llewellyn Idriess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Horrie the Wog-dog written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Horrie the Wog-dog

Author : Ion Llewellyn Idriess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Horrie the Wog-dog written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Horrie the War Dog

Author : Roland Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781743317990
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Horrie the War Dog written by Roland Perry and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horrie, the Egyptian Terrier, found as a starving pup in the harsh Libyan Desert, became the much-loved mascot of the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion in World War 11. Yet he was no ordinary symbol, and the Gunners' love for him was not mere affection for a pet. It was in return for Horrie saving the lives of every member of the thousand strong contingent, not once but several times in the Middle East. His exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraft two minutes before human ears. Horrie's ritual of sitting, growling, barking and then leading the dash for trenches, had the Gunners running for cover before their camp was strafed and bombed. He was adopted by the 'Rebels,' a small group of Signallers, who secretly carried him through battle zones of Libya, Egypt, Palestine (Israel) and Syria. Horrie was smuggled into Australia after a harrowing boat trip home early in 1942, when the Battalion returned to face the threat from marauding Japanese Forces. The dog stayed with the family of his 'Master' Private Jim Moody, who went off to fight the enemy in New Guinea. When he came back in 1945, Moody brought Horrie out of hiding to help raise money for the Red Cross. Quarantine pounced and condemned the dog to death. Moody and the Rebels were shocked. They and a thousand others owed their existence to Horrie. Now they were being ordered to submit the dog, who was fit and disease-free, for extermination. How could Moody and Rebels beat the bureaucracy when defying the authorities would mean jail for them, and Horrie being caught and killed? Could they create a scheme to save him as they had in carrying the dog everywhere with them in the North African and Middle East Campaigns? Or was Horrie, the Gunner's hero, to be condemned to canine martyrdom? The answers are in HORRIE THE WAR DOG, a true tale of intrigue and illusion; a story of sacrifice, courage and loyalty in the finest ANZAC tradition.

Creforce - the Anzacs and the Battle of Crete

Author : Stella Tzobanakis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646815763
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Creforce - the Anzacs and the Battle of Crete written by Stella Tzobanakis and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creforce - the Anzacs and the Battle of Crete is the dramatic story of the second Anzacs and their role in one of the biggest battles in the military history of Australia, New Zealand and its Allied forces during World War II.The book is written for children 10 and up and explores the real-life `adventures' and misadventures of more than 14,500 young Australian and New Zealand soldiers who were sent to the Greek island of Crete - famous for myths, minotaurs and labyrinths - under the second formation of the Anzac Corps, to help defend it against Nazi Germany. The book includes never-before-told, first-hand accounts of those that lived through the battle, and weaves in the stories of real-life characters including Roald Dahl, the famous British novelist Roald Dahl, Horrie the Wog Dog, the little terrier who became an unofficial mascot, Charles Upham, known as the Lion of Crete, an educated sheep farmer turned valuer from New Zealand who was single-minded, perservering, swore a lot and hated injustice and the people of Crete who have been likened in the book to Ned Kelly for their outlaw-style tactics as part of the Cretan resistance. The most notable Cretan is the Cretan Runner George Psychoundakis, an uneducated, poor, young shepherd who became a decorated war hero for aiding British soldiers including author, scholar Patrick Leigh Fermor who has been described as a cross between Indiana Jones and James Bond.The book is on the Victorian and NSW Premier's Reading Challenge lists. It is only available for purchase at stelitsahome.bigcartel.com

Animal Heroes

Author : Anthony Hill
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143784617
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Animal Heroes written by Anthony Hill and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Darwin in 1942, Gunner’s barking alerted an entire army base of impending air raids, well before the enemy planes appeared on radar. Following an ambush, Sarbi the explosive detection dog was held captive by the Taliban for over a year, before heading home a hero. And when 135000 horses left Australia for the First World War, why was General Bridges’ charger Sandy the only one to return home? Drawing from first-hand sources and interviews with those who were there, Anthony Hill brings to life the loyalty and courage of these animals, and the love their soldiers felt for them. From the donkeys that carried the wounded at Gallipoli to the dolphins that hunted underwater mines in Iraq, these animal heroes are at the heart of some of the most remarkable stories in Australia’s military history. This fully revised and updated edition features inspiring true stories of heroism and sacrifice, many of them never told before.

Hitler's Spy Princess

Author : Martha Schad
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752488295
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Spy Princess written by Martha Schad and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of Stephanie von Hohenlohe (1891-1972), notorious as a secret go-between and even a professional blackmailer. Despite her Jewish roots, Stephanie always claimed to be of pure Aryan descent. Soon enough, Hitler would begin to employ her on secret diplomatic missions.

Horrie the Wog-dog

Author : Ion Llewellyn Idriess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Horrie the Wog-dog written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moody's Tale

Author : James Bell Moody
Publisher : ETT Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1925706591
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Moody's Tale written by James Bell Moody and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Moody of the 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion found an Egyptian dog in 1940, who became Horrie, the Battalion's mascot. He wrote it first as a simple tale, augmented by his own photographs of Horrie and his mates in action in Greece, Crete and Palestine. This was sent to Ion Idriess, who developed the book with a series of questions, to finally develop the classic tale of man's best friend: Horrie the Wog Dog (ETT Imprint 2017). Published here for the first time is Moody's original tale, and extended.response to Idriess' questions, which gives a much stronger picture of members of the Battalion itself, the Rebels, written and lived in than Australian larrikin manner. Introduced by Tom Thompson, it also includes many pictures of Horrie in action, never before published.

The Year of the Rabbit

Author : Oliver Chin
Publisher : Immedium
ISBN 13 : 1597020230
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Year of the Rabbit written by Oliver Chin and published by Immedium. This book was released on 2011 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosie the rabbit befriends a boy who leads her on a wild adventure with a tiger. Lists the birth years and characteristics of individuals born in the Chinese Year of the Rabbit.

Harlem, the Making of a Ghetto

Author : Gilbert Osofsky
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781566631044
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Harlem, the Making of a Ghetto written by Gilbert Osofsky and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great many books have been written about Harlem, but for social history none has surpassed Gilbert Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years. Mr. Osofsky sets his chronicle against the background of pre-Harlem black life in New York City and in the context of the radical changes in race relations in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He traces Harlem's change to the largest segregated neighborhood in the nation and then its fall to a slum. Throughout he neatly balances statistics and humanly revealing details. "A careful and important study.... Osofsky at once takes his place alongside James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, and others who have looked at Harlem at close range." John Hope Franklin. "A pioneering scholarly achievement.... Although the subject engages his compassion, his presentation is rigorously straightforward and unsentimental and therefore all the more valuable as social analysis." New York Times Book Review"

The Village of Nigger-Nigga

Author : Harold L. Price
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519373908
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book The Village of Nigger-Nigga written by Harold L. Price and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the following work, there are three separate but related works. The first work focuses on the power of language, the specific example being that of the so-called "n" word. There are several key thoughts and questions worth keeping in mind as you read the first work, The Village of Nigger-Nigga. First, the more "forbidden" or "taboo" something is, the more powerful it becomes. In view of that, the question arises: "Who benefits from the negative power created by preserving the "n" word as a "taboo"?" Primarily, if not exclusively, so-called "white" or "non-black" people. In other words, those who would use it as a "weapon" to hurt others emotionally. And who suffers from the negative power created by preserving the "n" word as a "taboo"?" Primarily, if not exclusively, so-called "black" or "non-white" people. Conversely, who would benefit by neutralizing the negative meaning/use of the word "nigger" and/or giving it a new and positive meaning? Virtually, all of society in general, both here in America as well as the world at large. Although the first work, The Village of Nigger-Nigga, is a work of fiction in the strictest sense, there is a significant degree of linguistic truth in principle regarding the message of this short story. For example, unlikely as it may seem in terms of the feasibility of converting the "n" word from something negative to a positive, linguistically speaking, language is more than sufficiently capable of accommodating such a change. The second work, Corruption...a Precondition for Power, addresses the matter of power in general. In terms of the message in this essay, it can readily be applied to the other two works, The Village of Nigger-Nigga and Nigger Music.

Back O' Cairns

Author : ION. IDRIESS
Publisher : ETT Imprint
ISBN 13 : 9781923205239
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Back O' Cairns written by ION. IDRIESS and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2024-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as "Gouger" for the Bulletin. In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler's axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the district's historical background. The book is peopled by characters given to polite chiacking and the writing of poetry, and the reading of 'pomes' by the evening campfire... Perhaps the most interesting is the 'Jungle Man' who could scent animals and Aborigines in the scrub before they scented him. He also possessed incredible hearing... who took Jack into the rugged mountains and the dense jungle and showed him a primitive world few men have ever seen. Jack was treading in the paths of his heroes - the explorers. Beverley Eley, from her biography Ion Idriess.

The Shark Caller

Author : Dianne Wolfer
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143780549
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Shark Caller written by Dianne Wolfer and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a twin from a shark calling family can appease the ancestors and bring a community back together in this powerful and haunting story. Isabel is on a plane heading back to her island birthplace in Papua New Guinea. Izzy is looking forward to seeing her family again, but there's another tragic reason for the trip. Izzy's twin brother, Ray, died in a freak diving accident, and Izzy and her mum are taking his ashes home for traditional death ceremonies. After they arrive, Izzy realises things have changed since their last visit. Logging threatens the community's way of life and sharks no longer answer the song of the shark callers. Izzy's cousin Noah explains that the clan needs someone to undertake a traditional diving ritual. The person must be a twin from the shark calling lineage. The dive will be perilous. And Izzy is the last twin. Will she have the courage to attempt the dive? And what deep, dark secrets will the ocean reveal if she does?

Horrie the War Dog

Author : Roland Perry
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743435770
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Horrie the War Dog written by Roland Perry and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a little stray pup the boys of First Australian Machine Gun Battalion saved from harsh Libyan Desert. He became their much-loved mascot and saviour. But what happened to Horrie on his return to Australia? An extraordinarily moving and fascinating story of bravery, mateship and the lengths people will go to to save a friend. In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraft two minutes before his human counterparts and repeatedly saved the lives of the thousand-strong contingent. The little Egyptian Terrier's ritual of sitting, barking, then dashing for the trenches, had the gunners running for cover before their camp was strafed and bombed. Where Moody went, Horrie went too, through the battle zones of the Middle East and far beyond. As the Japanese forces began their assault in Asia Moody and his soldier mates joined the fight, but not before they had smuggled Horrie onto a troop ship and a harrowing journey back to Australia where they thought their little friend would be safe. The war over, Moody brought Horrie out of hiding to raise money for the Red Cross, and the brave little dog's story became widely known. When quarantine officers pounced and demanded that the dog be put down there was a huge public outcry. Horrie had saved a thousand lives. How could a cruel bureaucracy heartlessly kill him? But defying the authorities would mean gaol for Moody and certain death for Horrie. Was Horrie, the gunner's hero, condemned to die or could Moody devise a scheme to save him? In the finest ANZAC tradition, Horrie the War Dog is a story of intrigue and illusion, and of sacrifice, courage and loyalty. Best-selling author, Roland Perry, tells this remarkable true story for the first time.

African American Entertainers in Australia and New Zealand

Author : Bill Egan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476677956
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book African American Entertainers in Australia and New Zealand written by Bill Egan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven African Americans, including a musician, were among the First Fleet of colonial settlers to Australia. In the 150-plus following years, African Americans visiting the region included jubilee singers, vaudevillians, sports stars and general entertainers. This book provides the only comprehensive history of more than 350 African American entertainers in Australia and New Zealand between European settlement in Australia in 1788 and the entry of the United States into World War II in 1941. Famous names covered include boxer Jack Johnson, film star Nina Mae McKinney and jazz singer Eva Taylor. Background stories provide a multidimensional view of the entertainers' time in a place very far from home.

Such is War

Author : Cecil Anderson
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1922109533
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Such is War written by Cecil Anderson and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seige of Tobruk during World War II was a 241-day campaign in Northern Africa critical to the defence of Egypt and the Suez Canal. Tobruk was subjected to repeated ground assaults and constant bombing and shelling by the Italian-German forces. Nazi propaganda called these defenders 'rats' - a term the Australians took as an ironic compliment. Cecil Anderson was a signalman during the Tobruk campaign. Like many Australians he wrote diaries based on his thoughts and experiences. These diaries have been written with humour and candidness and at times like poetry. He was in a position to receive top secret information on troop movements. He supplemented his diaries with maps and high quality photographs as he was a keen photographer.