All In Fighting The War At Home
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All In Fighting The War At Home
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Author : Michael McKernan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
All In Fighting The War At Home written by Michael McKernan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
All In Fighting
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Author : W. E. Fairbairn
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2021-05-06
All In Fighting written by W. E. Fairbairn and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-06 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The author of this concise guide to unarmed combat and self-defence is a legend. W. E. Fairbairn (1885-1960) spent over thirty years in the tough environment of the Riot Squads of China's Shanghai Municipal Police. In order to lower levels of Police mortality at the hands of Chinese Tongs, he studied ancient Chinese and Japanese martial arts, including Ju-jitsu, and was the first foreigner to be awarded a black belt in the discipline. He developed his own system which he called 'Defendu'. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive as an Instructor in unarmed combat and expounded the deadly mysteries of attack and defence to scores of trainee agents about to be dropped into occupied Europe. His methods were approved and officially adopted throughout the British army. Fairbairn also developed weapons and defence aids such as bullet proof vests. He is best known as the co-inventor of the famous Sykes-Fairbairn knife. In this book he expounds his distilled experience of unarmed combat. Fully illustrated, it shows how to deliver deadly blows with hand, fist, knee and boot; wrist, bear- and strangle holds (and how to break them); how to throw an enemy, and how to break their backs; how to disarm a pistol-wielding attacker; and securing a prisoner. The book also contains a chapter on the use of the rifle in close combat by Captain P. N. Walbridge.
The War Of The World
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Author : Niall Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-11-06
The War Of The World written by Niall Ferguson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-06 with History categories.
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower "Even those who have read widely in 20th-century history will find fresh, surprising details." —The Boston Globe "A fascinating read, thanks to Ferguson's gifts as a writer of clear, energetic narrative history." —The Washington Post Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new answers takes him from the walls of Nanjing to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the economics of ethnic cleansing to the politics of imperial decline and fall. The result, as brilliantly written as it is vital, is a great historian's masterwork.
All In Fighting In Colour Combat Edition
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Author : W E Fairbairn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-11
All In Fighting In Colour Combat Edition written by W E Fairbairn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-11 with categories.
Fully illustrated and enhanced with colourised images, this is the Combat Edition of what is regarded as the classic manual of unarmed combat, it will be sure to delight all martial arts enthusiasts. The author of this guide to unarmed combat and self-defence is a legend. W. E. Fairbairn (1885-1960) spent over thirty years in the tough environment of the Riot Squads of China's Shanghai Municipal Police. In order to lower levels of Police mortality at the hands of Chinese Tongs, he studied ancient Chinese and Japanese martial arts, including Ju-jitsu, and was the first foreigner to be awarded a black belt in the discipline. He developed his own system which he called 'Defendu'. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive as an Instructor in unarmed combat and expounded the deadly mysteries of attack and defence to scores of trainee agents about to be dropped into occupied Europe. His methods were approved and officially adopted throughout the British army. Fairbairn also developed weapons and defence aids such as bullet proof vests. He is best known as the co-inventor of the famous Sykes-Fairbairn knife. In this book he expounds his distilled experience of unarmed combat. Fully illustrated, it shows how to deliver deadly blows with hand, fist, knee and boot; wrist, bear- and strangle holds (and how to break them); how to throw an enemy, and how to break their backs; how to disarm a pistol-wielding attacker; and securing a prisoner. The book also contains a chapter on the use of the rifle in close combat by Captain P. N. Walbridge. Captain W. E. Fairbairn would have approved of this new colour version, that gives an illustrative clarity to the original that was lacking in previous monochrome reprints of his work.
The Abyss
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Author : Niall Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-10-23
The Abyss written by Niall Ferguson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with History categories.
Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional military history about battles and generals. Rather, The Abyss examines how World War I saw the birth of total war—fought between societies as much as armies—and must therefore be understood in terms of the financial crises it unleashed, the multinational empires it destroyed, and the hateful ideas it propagated. The most remarkable thing about the war, Ferguson shows us, is how shockingly unexpected it was. At a time when economic integration and technology seemed to be rendering war between great powers impossible, World War I was the moment when that process went into reverse and the lethal forces of ethnic disintegration took over. Now, on the cusp of the 100th anniversary of its outbreak, we can see World War I as much more than just four years of industrialized slaughter. Weaving together the economics of empire and the ideology of race—and featuring an original preface by the author as well a teaser from his new paperback Civilization—The Abyss is world history at its finest.
Goodnight Bobbie
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Author : Marilyn Dodkin
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 2006
Goodnight Bobbie written by Marilyn Dodkin and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Families of prisoners of war categories.
It is 1941. Australia is at war and there are fears of an attack on the homeland. Captain Bobbie Puflett, a doctor serving with the 10th Australian General Hospital of the 8th Division in Malaya, writes to his parents Bob and Ethel and sister Del. When the Allies surrender to the Japanese in February 1942, Bobbie is one of 15,000 men of the 8th Division who disappear. It is eighteen months before his family knows that he is a prisoner of war, but they continue to write. This is one family’s story told through letters. We learn of everyday life in wartime Sydney and service in the allied forces before the fall of Singapore. Most of all the letters bring to life the pain of separation.
Secret Fleets
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Author : Lynne Cairns
language : en
Publisher: Western Australian Museum
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Secret Fleets written by Lynne Cairns and has been published by Western Australian Museum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with History categories.
Contrary to what many Australians believe, during 1942 Japanese submarines were active in Australian waters and Japanese spy planes made surveillance flights over our major cities. With enemy submarines patrolling off the Western Australian coast, Fremantle became an important international submarine base, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. During the war Fremantle played host to over 170 Allied submarines, with submarines of the United States, British and Dutch navies making a total of 416 war patrols out of the port between March 1942 and August 1945. The secrecy surrounding the operation of the Fremantle submarine base meant that its existence was little known at the time and, until now, has been largely forgotten by history.
Fighting The War At Home Complete Series Of Discussion Outlines
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Fighting The War At Home Complete Series Of Discussion Outlines written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Description: Fighting the War at Home. NY State War Council, Office of Civilian Mobilization series of ten discussion outlines for group leaders packaged in envelope with string tie, including: No. 1 Fighting the War at Home Group Leaders Instructions: Blacking Out for Safety; No. 2 Fighting the War at Home Group Leaders Instructions: Fighting Fire Bombs; No. 3 Fighting the War at Home Group Leaders Instructions: Caring for Casualties; No. 4 Fighting the War at Home Group Leaders Instructions: Salvaging for Victory; No. 5 Fighting the War at Home Group Leaders Instructions: Eating for Health; No. 6 Fighting the War at Home Group Leaders Instructions: Stretching Our Supplies; No. 7 Fighting the War at Home Group Leaders Instructions: Freeing Our Children from Fear; No. 8 Fighting the War at Home Group Leaders Instructions: Guarding Our Energies; No. 9 Fighting the War at Home Group Leaders Instructions: Sticking to Facts; No. 10 Fighting the War at Home Group Leaders Instructions: Budgeting to Win.
Chicanery
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Author : Geoffrey Gray
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2023-05-12
Chicanery written by Geoffrey Gray and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-12 with History categories.
Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues’ intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors’ reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine the futures of peers and colleagues. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process, and includes accounts of the appointments of influential anthropologists such as Raymond Firth and Alexander Ratcliffe-Brown.
Science And The Pacific War
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Author : Roy M. MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1999-12-31
Science And The Pacific War written by Roy M. MacLeod and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12-31 with History categories.
In 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War occasioned many reflections on the place of science and technology in the conflict. That the war ended with Allied victory in the Pacific theatre, inevitably focussed attention upon the Pacific region, and particularly upon the Manhattan project and its outcome. It was in the Pacific that Western physics and engineering gave birth to the Atomic Age. However, the Pacific war had also proved a testing time, and a testing space, for other disciplines and institutions. Extreme environments and opemtional distances, and the fundamental demands of logistics, required the Allies and the Japanese to innovate many scientific and technological practices. Just as medicine and botany were called upon to fight tropical diseases and insect pests, so engineers, anthropol ogists and geographers were called upon to understand local conditions and cli mates, and to work with local peoples whose traditional lives were changed forever by the experience. At the same time, the war played midwife to a host of new de velopments, not least in scientific intelligence and in chemical and biological weapons, which were to acquire far greater importance after 1945.