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Kokoda Commander

Author : Stuart Braga
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kokoda Commander written by Stuart Braga and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kokoda Commander is the story of a remarkable man. Arthur 'Tubby' Allen commanded 1,000 men in battle at the age of 23 in the First World War. A generation later, he took the first Australian troops to the Second World War, and with them won two great battles in Libya in January 1941. In the next six months, he led his troops in battle against three different enemies in three different continents: Africa, Europe, and Asia. In New Guinea in October 1942, he led the successful fightback along the Kokoda Trail that led to the defeat of the Japanese." "Major-General Allen became a legendary figure to thousands of Australian troops. However, by the end of 1942, despite his victories, his army career was virtually over. Within another two years, he was out of the army." "Based on extensive research, and written in an engaging style, this book tells how an able leader was pushed aside and his good name systematically destroyed by jealous rivals."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

World War II Goes to the Movies & Television Guide Volume I A-K

Author : Terry Rowan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 110546489X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book World War II Goes to the Movies & Television Guide Volume I A-K written by Terry Rowan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Complete Film Guide to motion pictures and television shows that pertain to WWII. Facts and stories about Hollywood personal that served in the Armed Forces, War Bond drives, USO shows, Hollywood Canteen and those who were ruled 4 F during the war. Complete history of world cinema during the years of the war. As well as other interesting facts are also included in the first volume. Featurine shorts, cartoons, documentaries, and feature films. Don't forget to get the second volume L-Z.

The Kokoda Connection

Author : Leslie Wilkie
Publisher : Ulverscroft
ISBN 13 : 9780708959039
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Kokoda Connection written by Leslie Wilkie and published by Ulverscroft. This book was released on 2000 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of an old man lying bleeding and unconscious on his doorstep sends Ray Ward on a journey across the world. A chance encounter on a flight to New Zealand with a freelance journalist, Jan Sinclair, leads to Ray and her joining forces in a search into the old man's background.

Kokoda (TV TIE IN)

Author : Paul Ham
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0730450244
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Kokoda (TV TIE IN) written by Paul Ham and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for a major two-part ABC documentary, KOKODA is set to win over a whole new audience 'Never in my life ... had I seen soldiers who looked so shocked and so tired and so utterly weary as those men' Brigadier John Rogers, Australia's Director of Military Intelligence, 1942Now a major two-part ABC documentary series produced with Screen Australia's Making History, Paul Ham's KOKODA is the bestselling history of the crucial battles in Papua New Guinea that saved Australia from the threat of Japanese attack.In this acclaimed account, Ham describes both sides of the appalling struggle along the Kokoda track in 1942 when a few badly trained Australian troops confronted the Imperial Japanese Army in the worst terrain imaginable.Few of us know the true story behind that legend; few know the guts inside the myth. Kokoda was a war without mercy; a predatory war, where men hunted down men like wild animals. No army had fought in such conditions; no Allied general believed it possible.Yet Kokoda was a vital struggle; undoubtedly a turning point in the Pacific War. Had the Japanese captured Port Moresby, Australia would surely have been bombed and cut off as the only base in the South West Pacific for the Allied counter-offensive.the diggers were fighting for their very country's survival as the last free nation in Asia.Paul Ham is the author of VIEtNAM: tHE AUStRALIAN WAR and the Australia correspondent for the LONDON SUNDAY tIMES. He co-wrote, co-produced and appears in the ABC's two-part documentary based on this book, which, for the first time, took a camera crew along the full length of the KOKODA tRACK.

Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guinea

Author : Rick Antonson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510705686
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guinea written by Rick Antonson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson (Full Moon Over Noah’s Ark) tackles his most challenging adventure yet: a formidable trail through the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea. Rick Antonson has traveled to parts of the world that are not simply exotic but sometimes damned near inaccessible. He has climbed to the summit of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, traveling beyond to Iraq and Iran and Armenia. He has undertaken an improbable overland journey to the ancient city of Timbuktu, an enlightening look into efforts to preserve the city’s priceless manuscripts. Now he has traversed the notorious Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea, a country some call “the last wild place on earth.” The trail is a narrow, 60-mile footpath featuring rough jungle, 6,000 feet in elevation change, and punishing weather extremes. In a country unfairly locked in Western misperceptions, the track is inhospitable terrain yet home to hospitable indigenous peoples, who live among the rusting reminders of the Japanese, Australian, and American armies that clashed in some of the deadliest protracted combat of World War II. In Walking With Ghosts in Papua New Guinea, Antonson shares a journey of physical and mental endurance in his inimitable way, in the company of a mixed band of resolute adventurers, blending fascinating historical context with the tribulations of unexpected discoveries in faraway lands.

Kokoda

Author : Karl James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107189713
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Kokoda written by Karl James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kokoda: Beyond the Legend provides readers with a complete understanding of this major turning point in the Second World War.

Crisis of Command

Author : David Murray Horner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crisis of Command written by David Murray Horner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Path of Infinite Sorrow

Author : Craig Collie
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 174237591X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book The Path of Infinite Sorrow written by Craig Collie and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back.' Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track over the mountainous spine of New Guinea. Few prisoners were taken, most were shot. War conventions were routinely flouted, by both sides.

Australia's Empire

Author : Deryck Marshall Schreuder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199273731
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Australia's Empire written by Deryck Marshall Schreuder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society.

Code Breakers

Author : Craig Collie
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742699774
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Code Breakers written by Craig Collie and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary untold story of the brilliant men who cracked the Japanese codes from Australia during World War II. At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan. These men patiently and carefully unravelled the codes in Japanese signals, ultimately playing a crucial role in the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea, as well as Macarthur's push into the Philippines. An intercept station in the Queensland bush brought about the end of Admiral Yamamoto. But this is more than a story of codes. It is an extraordinary exploration of a unique group of men and their intense personal rivalries and loathing, of white-anting and taking credit for others' achievements. It is also the story of a fierce inter-national and inter-service political battle for control of war-changing intelligence between a group of cryptographers based at the Monterey apartment block in Melbourne's Albert Park and General MacArthur's counter group that eventually established its headquarters in suburban Brisbane. What happened between these two groups would have consequences for intelligence services in the years to follow. Code Breakers brings this surprising and very secret world and the men who operated in it to rich life for the first time.

On the Home Front

Author : Kate Darian-Smith
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522859259
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book On the Home Front written by Kate Darian-Smith and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really happened on the Australian home front during the Second World War? For the people of Melbourne these were years of social dislocation and increased government interference in all aspects of daily life. On the Home Front is the story of their work, leisure, relationships and their fears—for by 1942 the city was pitted with air raid trenches, and in the half-light of the brownout Melburnians awaited a Japanese invasion. As women left the home to replace men in factories and offices, the traditional roles of mothers and wives were challenged. The presence of thousands of American soldiers in Melbourne raised new questions about Australian nationalism and identity, and the 'carnival spirit' of many on the home front created anxiety about the issues of drunkenness, gambling and sexuality. Kate Darian-Smith's classic and evocative study of Melbourne in wartime draws upon the memories of men and women who lived through those turbulent years when society grappled with the tensions between a restrictive government and new opportunities for social and sexual freedoms.

The Film Book

Author : Ronald Bergan
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9780241484838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Film Book written by Ronald Bergan and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of cinema -- How movies are made -- Movie genres -- World cinema -- A-Z directors -- Must-see movies.

1914: The Year the World Ended

Author : Paul Ham
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1864711434
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book 1914: The Year the World Ended written by Paul Ham and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth, yet 1914 did. The story of the outbreak of World War I. In July of 1914, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain, and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems, and set the course for the bloodiest century in human history. In the long run, the events of 1914 set the world on the path toward the Russian Revolution, the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of Nazism, and the Cold War. Here, award-winning historian Paul Ham tells the story of the outbreak of WWI from German, British, French, Austria-Hungarian, Russian, and Serbian perspectives. Along the way, he debunks several stubborn myths. European leaders, for example, did not stumble or "sleepwalk" into war. They fully understood that a small conflict in the Balkans--the tinderbox at the heart of the continent--could spark a European war. Yet they carried on. This book seeks to answer the most vexing question of the 20th century: Why did European governments decide to condemn the best part of a generation of young men to the trenches and four years of slaughter, during which 8.5 million would die?

Investigating Iwo

Author : Breanne Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732003071
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Investigating Iwo written by Breanne Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Investigating Iwo encourages us to explore the connection between American visual culture and World War II, particularly how the image inspired Marines, servicemembers, and civilians to carry on with the war and to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure victory over the Axis Powers. Chapters shed light on the processes through which history becomes memory and gains meaning over time. The contributors ask only that we be willing to take a closer look, to remain open to new perspectives that can deepen our understanding of familiar topics related to the flag raising, including Rosenthal's famous picture, that continue to mean so much to us today"--

Breaker Morant

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472131444
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Breaker Morant written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most people have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England and immigrating to Queensland in 1883, he established a reputation as a rider, polo player and poet who submitted ballads to The Bulletin and counted Banjo Paterson as a friend. Travelling on his wits and the goodwill of others, Morant was quick to act when appeals were made for horsemen to serve in the war in South Africa. He joined up, first with the South Australian Mounted Rifles and then with a South African irregular unit, the Bushveldt Carbineers. The adventure would not go as Breaker planned. In October 1901 Lieutenant Harry Morant and two other Australians, Lieutenants Peter Handcock and George Witton, were arrested for the murder of Boer prisoners. Morant and Handcock were court-martialled and executed in February 1902 as the Boer War was in its closing stages, but the debate over their convictions continues to this day. With his masterful command of story, Peter FitzSimons takes us to the harsh landscape of southern Africa and into the bloody action of war against an unpredictable force using modern commando tactics. The truths FitzSimons uncovers about 'the Breaker' and the part he played in the Boer War are astonishing - and finally we will know if the Breaker was a hero, a cad, a scapegoat or a criminal.

The Ruby Princess

Author : Duncan McNab
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781760982973
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book The Ruby Princess written by Duncan McNab and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia. Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the passengers got some bad news. The COVID-19 virus had infected some on the ship, and it spread rapidly. Eventually over 900 passengers and crew would be diagnosed, and 28 would die from the disease. Months of investigation and a Special Commission uncovered a series of catastrophic mistakes, from negligence to the corporate greed of an industry with a history of only caring for its bottom line. This 'super-spreader incident' was a viral bomb that exploded in the heart of Australia's biggest city - and a disaster that could and should have been prevented. In his page-turning book, investigative journalist Duncan McNab explores the causes of the spectacular quarantine failure, the cruise industry, the lives of the victims and their families, and the turbulent politics of blame.

Kokoda

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780733623141
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Kokoda written by Peter FitzSimons and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now this gripping and bestselling account of the Kokoda campaign is available in a superbly packaged, hardback gift edition illustrated with almost 150 photographs. Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia a small force of young, ill-equipped Australians engaged a highly experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track and defeated them. A bestseller in both hardback and paperback, this edition is illustrated with photos of what it was really like many taken from the prize-winning work of Australian cameraman, Damien Parer. He risked his life to capture the reality of what these Australian soldiers endured, and achieved.