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Author : William P. Bolger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (816 download)
Download or read book The Fiery Phoenix: the Story of the 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1946 written by William P. Bolger and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William P. Bolger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780959335705
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Fiery Phoenix written by William P. Bolger and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107276314
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Proud 6th written by Mark Johnston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Mark Johnston's acclaimed illustrated histories of the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions, this is his long-awaited history of the 6th Australian Division: the first such history ever published. The 6th was a household name during World War II. It was the first division raised in the Second Australian Imperial Force, the first division to go overseas and the first to fight. Its success in that fight, in Libya in 1941, indicated that the standard established in the Great War would be continued. General Blamey and nearly every other officer who became wartime army, corps and divisional commanders were once members of the 6th Division. Through photographs and an authoritative text, this book tells their story and the story of the proud, independent and tough troops they commanded.
Author : Kevin Blackburn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134092229
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia written by Kevin Blackburn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-14 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. While POWs were deployed far and wide as a captive labour force, civilian internees were generally detained locally. This book explores differences in how captivity was experienced between 1941 and 1945, and has been remembered since: differences due to geography and logistics, to policies and personalities, and marked by nationality, age, class, gender and combatant status. Part One has at least one chapter for each ‘National Memory’, Australian, British, Canadian, Dutch, Indian and American. Part Two moves on to forgotten captivities. It covers women, children, camp guards, internee experiences upon the end of the war, and local heroines who fought back. By juxtaposing such a wide variety of captivity experiences – differentiated both by category of captive and by approach - this book transcends place, to become a collection about captivity as a category. It will interest scholars working on the Asia-Pacific War, on captivities in general, and on the individual histories of the countries and groups covered.
Author : Donat Gallagher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 161147048X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book "A Handful of Mischief" written by Donat Gallagher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The essays cover a wide range of material, from Waugh's early novel Black Mischief (1932) to his last travel book, A Tourist in Africa (1960). In addition to essays on well-known novels such as Scoop (1938), Brideshead Revisited (1945), and Helena (1950), the collection includes papers on Waugh's library, his changing conception of Oxford, his writing about religious conversion, and his role in the British evacuation of Crete in 1941. The authors approach Waugh and his work in various ways, and innovative essays explore sovereignty, post-colonialism, and adaptation for radio. Contributors: Baron Alder, Peter G. Christensen, Robert Murray Davis, Marcel DeCoste, Patrick Denman Flanery, Donat Gallagher, Irina Kabanova, Dan S. Kostopulos, Lewis MacLeod, John W. Mahon, Richard W. Oram, Ann Pasternak Slater, John Howard Wilson.
Author : Craig Stockings
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1921941197
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Bardia written by Craig Stockings and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of 3 January 1941, Australians of the 6th Division led an assault against the Italian colonial fortress village of Bardia in Libya, not far from the Egyptian-Libyan frontier. The ensuing battle was the second of the First Libyan Campaign, but the first battle of the Second World War planned and fought predominantly by Australians. The fortress fell to the attackers a little over two days after the attack began, in what could only be described as a remarkable victory. At a cost of 130 killed and 326 wounded, the 6th Division captured around 40,000 Italian prisoners and very large quantities of military stores and equipment. The victory was heralded at the time in Australia as one of the greatest military achievements of that nation's military history. Quite soon afterwards, however, overshadowed perhaps by Rommel's subsequent desert advances, the tragedy in Greece, and the war in the Pacific, Bardia slipped from the public mind. Very few Australians today have heard of the battle. This book attempts to bring Bardia back into the light.
Author : Peter Monteath
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526727544
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Escape Artist written by Peter Monteath and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck.In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete. Astoundingly, this was only the first of many escapes.An infantryman in the 2/7 Battalion, Johnny Peck was first thrown into battle against Italian forces in the Western Desert. Campaigns against Hitlers Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe in Greece and Crete followed. When Crete fell to the Germans at the end of May 1941, Peck was trapped on the island with hundreds of other men. On the run, they depended on their wits, the kindness of strangers, and sheer good luck.When Pecks luck ran out, he was taken captive by the Germans, then the Italians. Later, after his release from a Piedmontese jail following the Italian Armistice of 1943, and at immense risk to his own life, Peck devoted himself to helping POWs cross the Alps to safety. Captured once more, Peck was sentenced to death and detained in Milans notorious, Gestapo-run San Vittore prison until escaping again, this time into Switzerland.Historian Peter Monteath reveals the action-packed tale of one young Australian soldier and his remarkable war.
Author : Craig Stockings
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1921410256
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Bardia written by Craig Stockings and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging in its perspective and controversial in its conclusions, Bardia is a riveting account of the first large-scale battle planned and fought by an Australian formation in World War II. --Book Jacket.
Author : Craig Stockings
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004254595
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Swastika over the Acropolis written by Craig Stockings and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swastika over the Acropolis is a new, multi-national account which provides a new and compelling interpretation of the Greek campaign of 1941, and its place in the history of World War II. It overturns many previously accepted English-language assumptions about the fighting in Greece in April 1941 – including, for example, the impact usually ascribed to the Luftwaffe, German armour and the conduct of the Greek Army Further, Swastika over the Acropolis demonstrates that this last complete strategic victory by Nazi Germany in World War II is set against a British-Dominion campaign mounted as a withdrawal, not an attempt to ‘save’ Greece from invasion and occupation. At the same time, on the German side, the campaign revealed serious and systemic weaknesses in the planning and the conduct of large-scale operations that would play a significant role in the regime’s later defeats.
Author : Donat Gallagher
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401211825
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book In the Picture written by Donat Gallagher and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Waugh at war is an irresistibly fascinating subject, as are his war novels and diaries. Drawn to units offering the greatest danger, but often frustrated in his search for action, Waugh served in multiple regiments, saw battle on Crete and worked behind the lines in occupied Croatia. In the Picture traces Waugh’s experiences, both vivid and mundane, with a completeness never before attempted and shows how they come alive in Sword of Honour. It also illuminates the brief hints within the narrative of key events of the war, while highlighting its strategic direction. Waugh’s individualistic relationships with superiors, subordinates and public opinion led to blame and controversy. Working mainly from archival sources, In the Picture examines Waugh’s fitness to be an officer, his conduct on Crete, his being sacked from the Special Service Brigade, and his service in Croatia. New, very surprising discoveries dispel entrenched myths.
Author : Albert Palazzo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1921941243
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Crete written by Albert Palazzo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 20 May and 1 June 1941 the Second World War came to the Greek island of Crete. The Commonwealth defenders consisted of Australian, New Zealand and British refugees from the doomed Greek Campaign who had not recovered from defeat.
Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107087198
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Stretcher-bearers written by Mark Johnston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a generously illustrated, engaging and moving account of the history of the stretcher-bearer.
Author : W. S. Weerasooria
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Links Between Sri Lanka and Australia written by W. S. Weerasooria and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. B. Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646373232
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Eagles Alighting written by J. B. Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Treloar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646499710
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Kilted Battalion written by John Treloar and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the story of the battalion from its raising as a Militia battalion in 1936, through its deployment as an AIF battalion during the Second World War and its continuation as a CMF battalion during the post-war period, up to the formation of The Royal Western Australia Regiment in 1960. Appendices include Battle Honours, badges, battalion Colours, nominal rolls and other valuable and interesting reference information.
Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442690852
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Colour-Coded written by Constance Backhouse and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-11-20 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that continues today. Backhouse presents detailed narratives of six court cases, each giving evidence of blatant racism created and enforced through law. The cases focus on Aboriginal, Inuit, Chinese-Canadian, and African-Canadian individuals, taking us from the criminal prosecution of traditional Aboriginal dance to the trial of members of the 'Ku Klux Klan of Kanada.' From thousands of possibilities, Backhouse has selected studies that constitute central moments in the legal history of race in Canada. Her selection also considers a wide range of legal forums, including administrative rulings by municipal councils, criminal trials before police magistrates, and criminal and civil cases heard by the highest courts in the provinces and by the Supreme Court of Canada. The extensive and detailed documentation presented here leaves no doubt that the Canadian legal system played a dominant role in creating and preserving racial discrimination. A central message of this book is that racism is deeply embedded in Canadian history despite Canada's reputation as a raceless society. Winner of the Joseph Brant Award, presented by the Ontario Historical Society
Author : Michael O'Brien
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN 13 : 9781863739672
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Conscripts and Regulars written by Michael O'Brien and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS Illustrations Abbreviations Vietnamese terms and conversion factors Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction 1. Raising and training - 'Aged Lentils and Fresh Greens' 2. Phyoc Tuy and the context of war 3. The first tour - Puckapunyal to Southport 4. Suoi Chau Pha - a broad and noble stream 5. Atherton to Forrest 6. Duntroon and the Tet Offensive 7. Oakleigh to the end of the tour 8. Re-forming and retraining 9. The second tour - Operation Finschhafen 10. Increasing ambushing 11. Pacification and Vietnamisation 12. Final operations 13. The battalion in peacetime 14. Legacies of services Appendices Indeces
