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Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac

Author : David Hastings
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775589838
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac written by David Hastings and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. ‘This man . . . was found wandering in a London street during the war,’ reported the paper. ‘He said he was an Australian soldier. Beyond his first statement that he was a Digger, he has not given any information about himself.’Thousands of people in Australia and New Zealand responded to this story and an international campaign to find the man’s family followed. The story tapped into deep wells of sorrow and uncertainty which had been covered over by commemorations of Anzac heroism and honourable national sacrifice. More than a quarter of the Anzac dead had no known resting place. Might this be someone’s missing son?David Hastings follows this one unknown Anzac, George McQuay, from rural New Zealand through Gallipoli and the Western Front, through desertions and hospitals, and finally home to New Zealand. By doing so, he takes us deep inside the Great War and the human mind.

Callan Park: ‘The Jewel of the West’

Author : Edward Moxon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669886727
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Callan Park: ‘The Jewel of the West’ written by Edward Moxon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a record of events that happened at Callan Park before 1960. It is a journey of discovery that uncovers facts and manoeuvring not published before. In time dramatic changes did happen; there was a paradigm shift from mothering to encouraging independence. The government’s predominant focus, through its bureaucrats, was on costs, structure, and process. Others had different ideas. The change came through a handful of unlikely people; a female psychiatrist and her friends, two young nurses, one psychopathic doctor, a patient’s brother, a few buck-passing bureaucrats, a newspaper, and a Royal Commission. This story involves the CIA. Sexual favours; one doctor proudly claimed that there were three things necessary for a happy life, “...to eat in style, to drive in style and to f... in style.” The use of spies to gather information for personal gain or write headlines for a paper. Political gameplay and deals. Lies and empire builders, hatchet people and scapegoats. Callan Park is littered with the refuse of dedicated staff who succumbed to suicide, alcoholism, PTSD, depression, and family breakdown—written off as collateral damage. Treatments for psychiatric conditions are continually changing, not necessarily due to scientific advances. A popular treatment in the 1920s was isolation, an aperient in the 1940s and 50s, brain surgery, psychotropic drugs and LSD in the 1950s and 60s. The stage was set to usher in a revolution in the care and treatment of people with a mental health problem and to experience the worse of political intervention. Volume two explores these two concepts.

Anzac Memories

Author : Alistair Thomson
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921867582
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Anzac Memories written by Alistair Thomson and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994, and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave ‘as good a picture of the impact of the Great War on individuals and Australia as we are likely to get in this generation’, and Michael Roper concluded that ‘an immense achievement of this book is that it so clearly illuminates the historical processes that left men like my grandfather forever struggling to fashion myths which they could live by’. In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a ‘post-memory’ of the Great War creates new challenges and opportunities for making sense of the national past, and how veterans’ war memories can still challenge and complicate national mythologies. He returns to a family war history that he could not write about twenty years ago because of the stigma of war and mental illness, and he uses newly released Repatriation files to question his own earlier account of veterans’ post-war lives and memories and to think afresh about war and memory.

Don't Mention the War

Author : Kevin Foster
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922235180
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Don't Mention the War written by Kevin Foster and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war in Afghanistan is now the longest and, arguably, worst reported conflict in Australian history. In Don’t Mention the War, Kevin Foster explores why this is so and considers who engineered and who has benefitted from its impoverished coverage. He examines how and why the Australian Defence Force restricted the media’s access to and freedom of movement among its troops in Afghanistan and what we can learn about their motives and methods from the more liberal media policies of the Dutch and Canadian militaries. He analyses how the ADF ensured positive coverage of its endeavours by bringing many aspects of the reporting of the war in-house and why some among the fourth estate were only too happy to hand over responsibility for newsgathering to the military. The book also investigates how political responses to the conflict, and the discourse that framed them, served to conceal the facts and neuter public debate about the war. After more than a decade of evasion and obstruction, half-truths and hype, Don’t Mention the War reveals how politicians, the military and the media failed the public over the Afghan conflict. Here is the real story behind the Australian story of the war.

Australian national bibliography

Author :
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1818 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian national bibliography written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1961 with total page 1818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Island Off the Coast of Asia

Author : Clinton Fernandes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925523799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Island Off the Coast of Asia written by Clinton Fernandes and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island offthe Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy is an unprecedented 230-yearAustralian study that reveals the central role of economic actors in definingand pursuing the 'national interest'. Australia's search for security hasmeant much more than protection from military invasion. It includes the securityof economic interests, and the pursuit of a political order that secures them.This view of security has deep roots in Australia's geopoliticaltradition. Australia began its existence on the winning side of aworldwide confrontation between imperial powers and the rest of the world. Thebook shows that the 'organising principle' of Australian foreign policy is tostay on the winning side of the global contest. Australia has pursued thisprinciple in war and peace, using the full arsenal of diplomacy, law,investment, research, negotiations, military force and espionage. This bookuses many decades of secret files to reveal the inner workings of high-levelpolicy. 'This deeply researchedand penetrating study of Australian foreign policy from the earliest days - withscrupulous use of secret files and close analysis of historical events - demonstratesconvincingly that its essential continuity is rooted in the power and interestsof the private sector, where fundamental economic decisions are made. Thosedemands determine the 'national interest' and the goal of securing a politicalorder that responds to them. A very valuable and instructive exercise inauthentic realism, with lessons that generalize broadly.' -- Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and theUniversity of Arizona

Blood Lust, Trust & Blame

Author : Samantha Crompvoets
Publisher : In the National Interest
ISBN 13 : 9781922464613
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Blood Lust, Trust & Blame written by Samantha Crompvoets and published by In the National Interest. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Australia comes to grips with accusations that some of its elite soldiers committed war crimes in Afghanistan, a catchcry for certain commentators is that the 'fog of war' explains, justifies and possibly excuses the alleged atrocities that have come to light. The term seeks to capture the uncertainty regarding one's own capability, the adversary's capability, and intent. However, the 'fog of war' is woefully inadequate in explaining actions that were deliberate, targeted and repeated. Abuses of power and the normalisation of deviance are at the heart of the 'cultural issues' that have long plagued the Australian Defence Force. In fact, this can be said of all institutions grappling with the same problems: histories of abuse and secrecy, sexual harassment, and problems of diversity and inclusion. It is always easiest to point a finger at a 'what' rather than a 'who', so 'culture' features prominently in analyses of what went wrong regarding the alleged war crimes committed by Australia's Special Operations Command. But does a focus on culture provide clarity or obscurity? Does it lead to or is it a barrier to accountability? How do you know when you've achieved cultural change?

Beyond Gallipoli

Author : Raelene Frances
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925495102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Gallipoli written by Raelene Frances and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers originally presented at a conference held in ðCanakkal, Turkey in 2015.

The Conscription Conflict and the Great War

Author : Robin Archer
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781525247422
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Conscription Conflict and the Great War written by Robin Archer and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a split in the Labor Party, and the fall of a government. The defeat of the proposals was hailed by some as a victory of democracy over militarism, mourned by others as an expression of political disloyalty or a symptom of failed self-government. But while the memory of the conscription campaigns once loomed large, it has increasingly been overshadowed by a preoccupation with the sacrifice and heroism of Australian soldiers - a preoccupation that has been reinforced during the centennial commemorations. This volume redresses the balance. Across nine chapters, distinguished scholars consider the origins, unfolding, and consequences of the conscription campaigns, comparing local events with experiences in Britain, the United States, and other countries. A corrective to the 'militarisation' of Australian history, it is also a major new exploration of a unique and defining episode in Australia's past.

The Emperor's Grace

Author : Mark Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922464033
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Grace written by Mark Baker and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force - the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 - who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal mine before the atomic bombings brought World War II to an end. When the Japanese seized most of South-East Asia in early 1942, they captured 22,000 Australian military personnel. More than a third would die over the next three years from malnutrition, disease and violent abuse. The horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway and Sandakan are well documented. Less well known is the fate of the 3,800 Australians sent to work as slave labourers in the factories and mines of mainland Japan. The Emperor's Grace is a compelling story of hardship, heroism and endurance - and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit - told for the first time from the unpublished diaries, memoirs and personal accounts of the men who survived.

Racial Folly

Author : Gordon Briscoe
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921666218
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Racial Folly written by Gordon Briscoe and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briscoe's grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve 'the half-caste problem'. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe's enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history.

The Other Wars

Author : Justin Fantauzzo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479006
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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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.

The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code

Author : Judith Hoare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922310439
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code written by Judith Hoare and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionised how we see the defining problem of our era: anxiety. Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia ... Dr Claire Weekes knew how to treat them, but was dismissed as underqualified and overly populist by the psychiatric establishment. In a radical move, she had gone directly to the people. Her international bestseller Self Help for Your Nerves, first published in 1962 and still in print, helped tens of millions of people to overcome all of these, and continues to do so. Weekes pioneered an anxiety treatment that is now at the cutting edge of modern psychotherapies. Her early explanation of fear, and its effect on the nervous system, is state of the art. Psychologists use her method, neuroscientists study the interaction between different fear circuits in the brain, and many psychiatrists are revisiting the mind-body connection that was the hallmark of her unique work. Face, accept, float, let time pass: hers was the invisible hand that rewrote the therapeutic manual. This understanding of the biology of fear could not be more contemporary -- 'acceptance' is the treatment du jour, and all mental-health professionals explain the phenomenon of fear in the same way she did so many years ago. However, most of them are unaware of the debt they have to a woman whose work has found such a huge public audience. This book is the first to tell that story, and to tell Weekes' own remarkable tale, of how a mistaken diagnosis of tuberculosis led to heart palpitations, beginning her fascinating journey to a practical treatment for anxiety that put power back in the hands of the individual.

South Pacific Cauldron

Author : Alan P Rems
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612514707
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book South Pacific Cauldron written by Alan P Rems and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Award-winning author Alan Rems brilliantly tells of the campaigns in the South Pacific, a region long overlooked, offering both the big picture and the foxhole view” — Military Officer “A fitting tribute to the men who fought and died in an often overlooked theater of World War II. As such, it is a welcome addition to our knowledge of World War II in the Pacific Theater.” — On Point: The Journal of Army History While the Pacific War has been widely studied by military historians and venerated in popular culture through movies and other media, the fighting in the South Pacific Theater has, with few exceptions, been remarkably neglected. Authoritative yet written in a highly readable narrative style, South Pacific Cauldron is the first complete history embracing all land, sea, and air operations in this critically important sector of the oceanic conflict.

An Anzac Zionist Hero

Author : Rodney Gouttman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Anzac Zionist Hero written by Rodney Gouttman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed figure in Israeli historiography, but little known in Australia, this book asks the question why. Margolin served in two armies in the First World War, the Australian and British, and was buried twice with full military honors, first in Australia, then Israel. Escaping the Russian pograms, he helped pioneer and defend the settlement of Rehovot in Palestine, and as an original ANZAC served with distinction at Gallipoli. He was recruited by Jabotinsky to take command in the Jewish Legion in Palestine, becoming the first Jewish district commander there since the time of Bar Kokhba. His men of the First Judeans put down the 1921 Arab May Day pogrom in Jaffe for which he was expelled from Palestine back to Australia.

Stolen Years

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877007156
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Stolen Years written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stars in the Night

Author : Clare Rhoden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925652499
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Stars in the Night written by Clare Rhoden and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Fletcher is a confident young man.Harry's sure that he will marry Nora MacTiernan, no matter what their families say. He's certain that he will always be there to protect Eddie, the boy his father saved from the gutters of Port Adelaide.Only the War to End All Wars might get in the way of Harry's plans?From the beaches of Semaphore to the shores of Gallipoli, the mud of Flanders to the red dust of inland South Australia, this is a story of love, brotherhood, and resilience.