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Author : Gabrielle McDonald
Publisher : Raupo
ISBN 13 : 9780790002163
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book New Zealand's Secret Heroes written by Gabrielle McDonald and published by Raupo. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Cowan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Hero Stories of New Zealand written by James Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stylianos Perrakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110778548
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Improbable Heroine written by Stylianos Perrakis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography in English of a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance, who joined the British secret intelligence services (SIS) shortly after the German occupation of Athens and was betrayed, arrested and executed one month before the Germans’ departure. She was a prosperous housewife with seven children, who had no experience in politics or military affairs, and yet she managed to build a formidable escape, espionage and sabotage organization that interacted with the highest levels of SIS agents in Occupied Greece. Book Presentation with Prof. Stylianos Perrakis (Concordia University), Prof. Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford), and Prof. Gonda van Steen (King’s College London)
Author : Martyn Brown
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925801683
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Politics of Forgetting written by Martyn Brown and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece was a poor country in turmoil and pain during the 1940s. A military dictatorship was followed by invasion and terrifying occupation by Germany and its allies, starvation, civil war, political unrest and mutiny in its free military armed forces. New Zealand entered this arena and found a bond with a people that it still celebrates to this day. Absent from the New Zealand national storytelling is the complex, divisive and sometimes violent and surreal relationship between the two countries and the inescapable influence of Britain. The New Zealand-Greek story stretches from the mountains and open country of Greece and Crete to Middle East deserts, autumn-swept plains of Italy, and the blood-splattered streets of post-liberated Athens. New Zealand official state memory emphasizes some things and ignores the unpalatable. It also conceals its assertiveness with Britain over the latter’s Greek policies.
Author : Judith M. Heimann
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824821999
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (219 download)
Download or read book The Most Offending Soul Alive written by Judith M. Heimann and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English eccentric and adventurer, Tom Harrisson (1911-1976) sought knowledge and renown in a dizzying number of fields, while breaking most of the rules of civilized society. He was a precursor in the field of modern market research; he won the DSO for his World War II service in Borneo; he led efforts to save the orangutan, the green sea turtle, and other endangered species; he discovered the oldest modern human skull known at the time. This hugely enjoyable story of Harrisson's extravagant, controversial life offers a sympathetic and insightful look at a charismatic figure who offended as many people as he impressed at the twilight of colonialism on the fringes of the British empire.
Author : Gabrielle McDonald-Rothwell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445681323
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Last Man Standing written by Gabrielle McDonald-Rothwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Stay low, stay on track, and stay alive' was the motto of the RAF's most secret Station, Tempsford. That's exactly what Geoffrey Rothwell did - DFC and Bar, Order of Leopold II & Palme, Croix de Guerre & Palme - from Bomber Command via SOE to Stalag and back.
Author : Andrew L. Hargreaves
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806151277
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Special Operations in World War II written by Andrew L. Hargreaves and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British and American commanders first used modern special forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of special operations themselves. This book is the first comprehensive study of the development, application, and value of Anglo-American commando and special forces units during the Second World War. Special forces are intensively trained, specially selected military units performing unconventional and often high-risk missions. In this book, Andrew L. Hargreaves not only describes tactics and operations but also outlines the distinctions between commandos and special forces, traces their evolution during the war, explains how the Anglo-American alliance functioned in the creation and use of these units, looks at their command and control arrangements, evaluates their impact, and assesses their cost-effectiveness. The first real impetus for the creation of British specialist formations came in the desperate summer of 1940 when, having been pushed out of Europe following defeat in France and the Low Countries, Britain began to turn to irregular forces in an effort to wrest back the strategic initiative from the enemy. The development of special forces by the United States was also a direct consequence of defeat. After Pearl Harbor, Hargreaves shows, the Americans found themselves in much the same position as Britain had been in 1940: shocked, outnumbered, and conventionally defeated, they were unable to come to grips with the enemy on a large scale. By the end of the war, a variety of these units had overcome a multitude of evolutionary hurdles and made valuable contributions to practically every theater of operation. In describing how Britain and the United States worked independently and cooperatively to invent and put into practice a fundamentally new way of waging war, this book demonstrates the two nations’ flexibility, adaptability, and ability to innovate during World War II.
Author : Alan Ogden
Publisher : Bene Factum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909657158
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Tigers Burning Bright written by Alan Ogden and published by Bene Factum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the remarkable efforts to bolster Britain's defensive capability in South East Asia in the face of the Japanese threat after 1941Alan Ogden brings to life the extraordinary story of SOE in the Far East as an organization battling against vested interests and competing Allied agencies and how over time it became a significant provider of strategic and tactical intelligence as well as carrying out countless dangerous missions behind enemy lines, some of which inflicted massive losses on the enemy. Behind this history lie the stories of some exceptional men who defied all odds in successfully prosecuting the war against a ruthless and efficient enemy in one of nature's toughest and most dangerous environments, the jungle. Ogden draws on both published and unpublished sources to tell their remarkable stories, always ensuring that the political context of their missions is fully explained.
Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1101904178
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Rogue Heroes written by Ben Macintyre and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue—now a limited series on Epix! “Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean’s 11 thrown in for good measure.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “Rogue Heroes is a ripping good read.”—Washington Post (10 Best Books of the Year) Britain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young aristocrat whose aimlessness belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a World War II battlefield map and saw a protracted struggle, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. Defying his superiors’ conventional wisdom, Stirling assembled a revolutionary fighting force that would upend not just the balance of the war, but the nature of combat itself. Bringing his keen eye for detail to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to the SAS archives to shine a light on a legendary unit long shrouded in secrecy.
Author : D W Thorpe
Publisher : D. W. Thorpe
ISBN 13 : 9781875589913
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (899 download)
Download or read book New Zealand Books in Print 1996 written by D W Thorpe and published by D. W. Thorpe. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With complete bibliographic information on titles from New Zealand & the Pacific Islands, this is an essential guide to the publishing industry in the Pacific. Entries are indexed by title, publisher, & subject. Also included are a book trade FAX directory, all literary awards, association addresses, bookseller, libraries & more.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Reece
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Masa Jepun written by Bob Reece and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Alexander Wigzell
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New Zealand Army Involvement written by Francis Alexander Wigzell and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Powell
Publisher : Melbourne University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book War by Stealth written by Alan Powell and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intriguing and daring story of the Australian coast-watchers in New Britain and the Solomon Islands during World War II is fairly well known, but they were part of a wider organisation. The Allied Intelligence Bureau was General MacArthur's intelligence, special operations and field propaganda unit in the Pacific War, 1942-45. The AIB was unique in its multinational composition. Under American leadership, it included British, Dutch, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian members, although many of the leaders and most of the field operatives were Australian. Its area of operations stretched from New Guinea to the Solomon Islands and from Indonesia, including Borneo, to the Asian mainland. Using much newly released, formerly secret archival material from Britain, the USA and Australia, this new full-scale study of the AIB examines for the first time relations between operatives and native peoples - a relationship critical for the success or failure of missions that were often appallingly dangerous. It also lays bare the power struggles within the organisation itself - conflicts over national, military and personal interests that were constant and intense - heightened by the conduct of war at a time that was, without doubt, the most desperate in Australian history.
Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440838615
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World written by Graham Seal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations to new countries and languages. This encyclopedia is a one-stop source for broad coverage of the world's folk hero tales. Geared toward high school and early college readers, the book opens with an overview of folk heroes and heroines that provides invaluable context and then presents a chronology. The book is divided into two main sections: the first provides entries on the major types and themes; the second addresses specific folk tale characters organized by continent with folk hero entries organized alphabetically. Each entry provides cross references as well as a list of further readings. Continent sections include a bibliography for additional research. The book concludes with an alphabetical list of heroes and an index of hero types.
Author : Thorpe, D. W., Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875589364
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Australian Books in Print 1994 written by Thorpe, D. W., Staff and published by . This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique reference provides detailed bibliographic information on over 60,000 in-print books published in or about Australia or written by Australian authors. There are also details on the more than 3,000 publishers & distributors whose titles are represented, as well as information on all trade associations, literary awards, & more.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (966 download)
Download or read book Heroes of Peace and War in Early New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
