The Desert Column

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ISBN 13 : 1925416860
Total Pages : 385 pages
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Download or read book The Desert Column written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after the charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba in October 1917... 'The Desert Column is based on the diaries that he kept through out the war. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. Harry Chauvel noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was "viewed entirely from the private soldier's point of view"... Idriess served as a sniper with the 5th Australian Light Horse. Enlisting in 1914, he began his diary "as we crowded the decks off Gallipoli" and he continued writing until returning to Australia... The diaries cover his experience of some of the war's major events from life in the trenches at Gallipoli to the battles at Romani and Beersheba. One of Idriess' strengths as a writer is his ability to place the reader at the scene of the action... The diaries reveal a keenness of observation and a descriptive and pacey style that Idriess would develop further in The Desert Column.' - The Australian War Memorial

The Desert Column

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Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book The Desert Column written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of Ion L. Idriess: The desert column

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Total Pages : 422 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Ion L. Idriess: The desert column written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Silver City

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ISBN 13 : 9781922384829
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book The Silver City written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Hill in the early 1900s was a hell on earth. In his 1956 book The Silver City, which draws on his childhood experiences in Broken Hill, he produces some of his most evocative writing to describe it. In The Silver City Idriess also conveys an acute sense of his distress at the despoilation of the natural world by wave after wave of settlers.

Prospecting for Gold

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ISBN 13 : 1922384038
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book Prospecting for Gold written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but I know very little about the game.' And so Jack Idriess wrote Prospecting for Gold in 1931. This is the 20th edition and known throughout Australia as the classic self-help manual for would-be prospectors. 'This book is written to help the new hand who ventures into the bush seeking gold... The "towny" prospector, with this book as a guide, will soon master methods of prospecting and the working of his find.' In an easy conversational tone, the author of Lasseter's Last Ride and Flynn of the Inland sets many a hopeful prospector on the road to discovering gold.

The desert column

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ISBN 13 : 9781923024816
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The desert column written by Ion L. Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Other Wars

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479006
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Download or read book The Other Wars written by Justin Fantauzzo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the experience and memory of British and Dominion soldiers in the Middle East and Macedonia during WWI.

Lasseter's Last Ride

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ISBN 13 : 1925416933
Total Pages : 218 pages
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Download or read book Lasseter's Last Ride written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (from The Spectator, May 1936) In his introduction to Lasseter's Last Ride (Cape, 7s. 6d.) Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood writes : "The annals of Central Australian exploration are tragic and heroic, but it is long indeed since I read a more moving story of endurance and heroism in the face of terrific odds than the epic which Mr. Ion Idriess has woven out of the last few months of the life of L. H. B. Lasseter." The reader will agree with this, and wonder why he has not heard of Mr. Idriess before. He is well known in Australia, but this is his first book to be published in England. It will not be his last, if the present one meets with the success it deserves. Having himself been a prospector, the story he has constructed out of the fragments of documentary evidence - a few reports, the barely legible diary and letters found buried near Lasseter's last camps - is probably very close to what actually happened. Harry Lasseter had once discovered a rich gold reef in unexplored west Central Australia. Owing to a faulty watch, the bearings he took were useless. An expedition was fitted out to locate it. From the first, misfortune dogged the steps of the party. Food ran short and they returned to the base-camp - all except Lasseter, who went on alone. When his two camels bolted he was left waterless in the desert. Blinded by sand and tortured by dysentry, he found the reef, but died shortly afterwards, deserted by a tribe of aborigines with whom he had tried to make friends. Mr. Idriess tells this story in a simple, virile style which is, in its intense economy, comparable to Hemingway at his best.

The Scout

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ISBN 13 : 1922473340
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book The Scout written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout all the game of war, in every Age, there has been no task so fascinating, so alive with thrills, as that of the scout. Against an enemy army he plays a lone hand as does the sniper. But the scout's job is not to hide and kill, his is to press forward and see, but never be seen. And - he must return. Ion Idriess's Australian guerrilla manual presents a rare insight into one of the most vital functions of small-unit combat intelligence - scouting. Despite great technical achievements in modern military science, the small-unit commander must still rely heavily on the eyes, ears and stealth of his scouts. Details obscure techniques often overlooked in most U.S. Army and Marine scouting texts. The sixth book of the Australian Guerrilla series, The Scout, by Ion Idriess is now available. It is packed with knowledge and bush lore, and gives to any soldier who studies it most of the data necessary for the job of scouting. With the rest of the series it provides a small compact little work that, carried in the haversack, is a means of learning as you go. - Hobart Mercury, 1943.

Ion Idriess Letters

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ISBN 13 : 9781922698933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Ion Idriess Letters written by Ion Idriess and published by . This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of Idriess letters showing his working methods 1933-1937 in developing books like The Cattle King and Man Tracks.

World War I Memories

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ISBN 13 : 9780810850088
Total Pages : 311 pages
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Download or read book World War I Memories written by Edward G. Lengel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919 is a comprehensive reference to more than 1,400 memoirs, diaries, and letters by soldiers and civilians from all belligerent nations during World War I. Organized by country, this book includes incisive commentary on each entry's value to historians, enthusiasts, and collectors and incorporates frequently overlooked, as well as well-known, titles. The introduction serves as a guide to the best World War I literature and title and subject indexes allow searching by unit, front, personal perspective, and battle.

The Red Chief

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ISBN 13 : 9781925416244
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Red Chief written by Ion Idriess and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shoot to Kill

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ISBN 13 : 1922384194
Total Pages : 71 pages
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Download or read book Shoot to Kill written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idriess was a trooper with the Light Horse at Gallipoli, all the way to Beersheba, and his diary was published as The Desert Column. Drawing on his military experience, this is one of six manuals written for soldiers and civilians in 1942, when invasion by the Japanese seemed imminent. Written in his characteristic, colloquial, man-to-man style, Mr Idriess here reveals the secrets of the dead shot. What to do and what not to do are impressed upon the budding rifleman. He brings out clearly the importance of apparently trifling points. No more opportune book could have been published. Australia for the first time in its history has been bombed. Invasion looms on our northern frontier. The imperative need now is for rifles, more rifles, yet more rifles - and riflemen.

Drums of Mer

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Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Drums of Mer written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lightning Ridge

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ISBN 13 : 9781923205116
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Lightning Ridge written by Ion Idriess and published by . This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Horrie the Wog-Dog

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ISBN 13 : 1925416984
Total Pages : 242 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 242 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)

Men of the Jungle

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ISBN 13 : 9781922473448
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Men of the Jungle written by Ion Idriess and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books looks at Idriess and his Aboriginal prospecting friends, the Bairds, working their way through far north-east Queensland over 100 years ago, from the Daintree and the Bloomfield Rivers to Mount Molloy.