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Anzac Fury
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Author : Peter Thompson
language : en
Publisher: William Heinemann
Release Date : 2011
Anzac Fury written by Peter Thompson and has been published by William Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
ANZAC Fury commemorates the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Greece and Crete were released from captivity. In 2010, it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures in battles against the German and Italian armies in North Africa, mainland Greece and Crete prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Written by a brilliant storyteller, ANZAC Fury tells the riveting story of how the legendary Anzac Corps was reformed in the heat of battle during World War II to fight a powerful and merciless foe. Dramatically combining personal memories with combat action, ANZAC Fury gives voice to the experiences of young Australians and New Zealanders who were sent on Churchill’s orders from the victorious battlefields of Libya on a disastrous mission to Greece and Crete.
Anzac Fury
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Author : Peter Alexander Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Anzac Fury written by Peter Alexander Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Large print books categories.
ANZAC FURY commemorates the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Greece and Crete were released from captivity. In 2010 it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures in battles against the German and Italian armies in North Africa, mainland Greece and Crete prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Written by a brilliant storyteller, ANZAC FURY tells the riveting story of how the legendary Anzac Corps was reformed in the heat of battle during World War II to fight a powerful and merciless foe. Dramatically combining personal memories with combat action, ANZAC FURY gives voice to the experiences of young Australians and New Zealanders who were sent on Churchills orders from the victorious battlefields of Libya on a disastrous mission to Greece and Crete. A companion volume to the acclaimed 2008 publication PACIFIC FURY, this book celebrates the Anzac spirit of sacrifice, mateship, courage and endurance that sustained the new Anzacs during the darkest days of the war.
Anzac Fury
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Author : Peter Thompson
language : en
Publisher: William Heinemann
Release Date : 2016-08-29
Anzac Fury written by Peter Thompson and has been published by William Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-29 with categories.
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Shanghai Fury
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Author : Peter Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2012
Shanghai Fury written by Peter Thompson and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
The third in the 'Fury? trilogy, following on from the bestsellers Pacific Furyand Anzac Fury.Shanghai is a city defined by war. The city and its armed struggles were central to the relationship between China and Australia from the fall of the Manchus in 1912 to the Communist victory in 1949. Yet with the notable exception of George 'Chinese? Morrison, the Australian contribution has been largely neglected and no single volume covers the experiences of the many remarkable Australians caught up in the drama. Set against a backdrop of imperial splendour and abject squalor, Shanghai Furyexamines one of the seminal periods of the 20th Century in a compellingly readable narrative that mixes personal memoir with combat action to complete a powerful trilogy on Australians at war.
Battle On 42nd Street
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Author : Peter Monteath
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth
Release Date : 2019-11-01
Battle On 42nd Street written by Peter Monteath and has been published by NewSouth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with History categories.
At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust? The battle for Crete was at once the most modern and the most ancient of wars. For a week Australian and New Zealand forces were relentlessly hammered from the skies by the Luftwaffe and pursued across Crete by some of the most accomplished and best equipped forces Hitler could muster. On the morning of 27 May 1941, however, all that was about to change. When a unit of German mountain troops approached the Allies’ defensive line — known as 42nd Street — men from the Australian 2/7th and 2/8th Battalions and New Zealanders from several battalions counter-attacked with fixed bayonets. By the end, German bodies were strewn across the battlefield. Acclaimed historian Peter Monteath draws on recollections and records of Australian, New Zealand, British and German soldiers and local Cretans to reveal the truth behind one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War. 'This is military history at its best: deeply researched, powerfully told and proving that the essence of war is men killing other men.' — Joan Beaumont
Pacific Fury
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Author : Peter Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2010-05-01
Pacific Fury written by Peter Thompson and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
How Australia and her allies defeated the Japanese. Pearl Harbor; The Fall of Singapore; Curtin's Fight With Churchill; The Bombing Of Darwin; POW Camps; The Battle of Midway; Kokoda; Buna; Kamikaze Pilots; Hiroshima... These words alone are enough to convey the terror, courage and drama of the Pacific War, when the balance of power stood on a knife-edge and when the future of Australia was on the brink - threatened by Japanese aggression on the one hand and British deception on the other. After a conflict that took an unimaginable number of lives and ended with the unleashing of the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen, the Allies emerged victorious. Australia, however, was criticised by Churchill and his generals for showing cowardice in the face of the enemy and for not caring about the fate of other nations. The endorsement of these claims by several military historians today shows that the smear has not gone away. Until now. Peter Thompson presents, for the first time, an account of the conflict that places Australian voices and action at the heart of the struggle. Based on exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses and written with all the pace and verve you would expect of a master storyteller, Pacific Fury brings the people and the battles to life in a sensational history not to be bettered in a generation.
The Anzac Illusion
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Author : Eric Montgomery Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993
The Anzac Illusion written by Eric Montgomery Andrews and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
This provocative book is reassessment of Australia's role in World War I and its relations with Britain.
Mussolini Mustard Gas And The Fascist Way Of War
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Author : Charles Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2024-03-30
Mussolini Mustard Gas And The Fascist Way Of War written by Charles Stephenson and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-30 with History categories.
In early October 1935 and without any declaration of war some two hundred thousand men, comprising soldiers and airmen of the Italian armed forces, Fascist ‘Blackshirt’ Militia, Eritrean ascari and Somali dubats, invaded the independent state of Ethiopia (Abyssinia). It was an operation entirely of choice, the chooser being Il Duce: Benito Mussolini. The resultant conflict is often described as a colonial war. while it was certainly launched with the intent of turning Ethiopia into an Italian possession, it was in fact a war of aggression against an independent, sovereign, state with membership of the League of Nations. A state that had, according to one of its nineteenth-century rulers, been ‘for fourteen centuries a Christian island in a sea of pagans’. The swiftness of the Italian victory resulted from their possession and ruthless use of technology; most particularly aircraft, mustard gas, and motorisation/mechanisation. Since they were fighting an enemy who possessed none of these things, then they were able to wage, indeed inaugurate, what the prominent military theorist JFC Fuller dubbed ‘totalitarian warfare’ or, as it became known a few years later, total war. This, he opined, was the Fascist, the scientific, way of making war. In his considered view, the Fascist Army that waged it was ‘a scientific military instrument.’ This book examines that campaign in military and political terms.
From The Trenches
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Author : Mark Dapin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
From The Trenches written by Mark Dapin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Australia.--Australian Army.--Australian and New Zealand Army Corps categories.
Others have written the myth, but the Anzacs themselves wrote their stories. Around the country, bronze soldiers in slouch hats stand silently at attention. It is the Anzacs' remarkable writing that reveals the lives behind the national legend. From the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying accounts of life at the front, recorded by those who lived through the fighting. Drawn from diaries, memoirs and letters, as well as poetry, reportage and prose, this collection reminds us that the Anzac legend is rooted in real and tragic circumstances on a heartbreakingly human scale. Belying the common perception of the laconic digger, these compelling voices convey the range of wartime experience, from the desolation and horror to the unbridled excitement and camaraderie. Through it all runs the bleak toll on young lives. Author and journalist Mark Dapin has selected writing from those on the frontlines as well as behind the scenes, from officers and soldiers to nurses, engineers and reporters, to create a volume that will be regarded as the definitive record of the personal experiences that forged the emerging national identities of Australia and New Zealand. 'This is one of the finest collections of war writing assembled, astutely analysed and sensitively compiled.' Weekly Times 'Bloodlust, fury and despair ping off the pages, in poetry and prose.' Courier-Mail 'A fine, judicious and moving selection . . . a rich addition to the literature of Anzac.' Weekend Australian 'Mark Dapin's writing in this field is second to none.' Weekly Times Now 'A gem of a collection.' South Coast Register 'A book for those who want to feel, see and smell the war through the eyes of those who were there.' Brisbane News 'No history book can bring these tragic events to life as graphically or as honestly as these men's own accounts . . . a must-read for anyone who wants to delve more deeply into the Anzac legend.' Toowoomba Chronicle
Politics Of Forgetting
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Author : Martyn Brown
language : en
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Release Date : 2019-04-24
Politics Of Forgetting written by Martyn Brown and has been published by Australian Scholarly Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-24 with Political Science categories.
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.