Wallaby Warrior
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Wallaby Warrior
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Author : Greg Growden
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2013-06-01
Wallaby Warrior written by Greg Growden and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Tom Richards is the only Australian-born Test rugby player to have played for both Australia and the British Lions. When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games, the London Times pronounced: 'If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Richards would be the first player chosen.' With an introduction by leading Australian rugby writer Greg Growden, Richards's diaries offer wonderful insights into his extraordinary sporting life, but more importantly provide perceptive and acute observations of the brutality and the humanity he observed on the front lines of World War I. His diaries are a revealing and very personal account of what occurred throughout the Gallipoli campaign and then the Western Front, where he received a Military Cross for his courage under German fire. As a great observer of human tragedy and frailties, Richards is acerbic in his opinions and often critical of his superiors and fellow soldiers, repeatedly finding fault with the British in charge. But it is his vivid descriptions of the many other characters who crossed his path that confirm this to be a significant contribution to our understanding of the Great War. Wallaby Warrior is a rich and intimate observation of life from a very different time by one of Australia's greatest rugby players, and the man after whom the trophy for rugby union tests between Australia and the British Lions is named.
After The Final Whistle
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Author : Stephen Cooper
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2015-08-03
After The Final Whistle written by Stephen Cooper and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-03 with Sports & Recreation categories.
When Britain's empire went to war in August 1914, rugby players were the first to volunteer: they led from the front and paid a disproportionate price. When the Armistice came after four long years, their war game was over; even as the last echo of the guns of November faded, it was time to play rugby again. As Allied troops of all nations waited to return home, sport occupied their minds and bodies. In 1919, a grateful Mother Country hosted a rugby tournament for the King's Cup, to be presented by King George V at Twickenham Stadium. It was a moment of triumph, a celebration of military victory, of Allied unity and of rugby values, moral and physical. Never before had teams from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Britain and France been assembled in one place. Rugby held the first ever 'World Cup' – football would not play its own version until 1930. In 2015 the modern Rugby World Cup returns to England and Twickenham as the world remembers the Centenary of the Great War. With a foreword by Jason Leonard, this is the story of rugby's journey through the First World War to its first World Cup, and how those values endure today.
To Remember The Faces Of The Dead
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Author : Thomas Maschio
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1994
To Remember The Faces Of The Dead written by Thomas Maschio and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
As he challenges classical semiological accounts of cultural representation in this ethnography of Melanesian religious phenomenology, Thomas Maschio shows that ritual and poetic performance are about the enactment, expression, and invention of the self. Maschio demonstrates how such emotions as nostalgia, anger, sadness, and grief are creatively transformed during the course of religious performance and expression into a form of cultural memory--one that juxtaposes a pattern of cultural meaning with the emotional feeling of plenitude the Melanesian Rauto call makai. Evoked during initiation, mourning, and agricultural rites, and figuring prominently in Rauto discourse about the self, makai joins personal memory to patterned sets of images and meanings that Westerners would call culture.
Our Friend The Enemy
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Author : David W. Cameron
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Our Friend The Enemy written by David W. Cameron and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with History categories.
Our Friend the Enemy is the first detailed history of the Gallipoli campaign at Anzac since Charles Bean’s Official History. Viewed from both sides of the wire and described in first-hand accounts. Australian Captain Herbert Layh recounted that as they approached the beach on 25 April that, once we were behind cover the Turks turned their .. [fire] on us, and gave us a lively 10 minutes. A poor chap next to me was hit three times. He begged me to shoot him, but luckily for him a fourth bullet got him and put him out of his pain. Later that day, Sergeant Charles Saunders, a New Zealand engineer, described his first taste of battle, The Turks were entrenched some 50-100 yards from the edge of the face of the gully and their machine guns swept the edges. Line after line of our men went up, some lines didn’t take two paces over the crest when down they went to a man and on came another line. Gunner Recep Trudal of the Turkish 27th Regiment wrote of the fierce Turkish counter-attack on 19 May designed to push the Anzac’s back into the sea, It started at morning prayer call time, and then it went on and on, never stopped. You know there was no break for eating or anything … Attack was our command. That was what the Pasha said. Once he says “Attack”, you attack, and you either die or you survive.
Gallipoli
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Author : Peter FitzSimons
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-01-15
Gallipoli written by Peter FitzSimons and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-15 with History categories.
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail... To this day, Turkey regards the victory as a defining moment in its history, a heroic last stand in the defence of the Ottoman Empire. But, counter-intuitively, it would come to signify something perhaps even greater for the defeated allies, in particular the Australians and New Zealanders: the birth of their countries’ sense of nationhood. Now, in the year that marks its centenary, the Gallipoli campaign (commemorated each year on 25 April, Anzac Day), resonates with significance as the origin and symbol of Australian and New Zealand identity. As such, the facts of the campaign (which was minor when compared to the overall scale of the First World War: Australian deaths were less than a sixth of their losses on the Western Front) are often forgotten or obscured. Now the celebrated journalist and author Peter FitzSimons, with his trademark vibrancy and expert melding of writing and research, recreates the disastrous campaign as experienced by those who endured it or perished in the attempt.
The Chipilly Six
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Author : Lucas Jordan
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth
Release Date : 2023-08-01
The Chipilly Six written by Lucas Jordan and has been published by NewSouth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with History categories.
On 9 August 1918, at Chipilly Spur overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 men have fallen. Then, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent without leave and cross the Somme ahead of British lines. Seeing that the British advance is stopped, they re-cross the river, gather four mates and return to drive the Germans off the spur. The extraordinary feats of the Chipilly Six and the personal stories of these diggers have been overlooked. Historian Lucas Jordan weaves a compelling tale of the lives of the soldiers, chronicling their return home and years after service, through a pandemic, the Great Depression, another world war and the very first Anzac Day dawn service. ‘The Chipilly Six were extraordinary men in extraordinary times. Lucas Jordan reveals a wider story of Australia’s Great War veterans as they battled a nation forgetting, a bitter Depression, another World War and beyond. This is a remarkable insight into a vanishing world’ — Bill Gammage, Emeritus Professor, Humanities Research Centre, ANU ‘An absolute cracker of a story. No one — and I literally mean no one! — is more equipped to write a compelling book about the remarkable story of the Chipilly Six.’ — Ross McMullin, author of Life So Full of Promise ‘A superb piece of investigative historical storytelling. Lucas Jordan is part of a new generation of military historians. He is a bright star.’ — Peter Stanley, author of Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force ‘Throws new light on the impact of war on families and communities, wives and brothers-in-arms.’ — Marilyn Lake, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
The Australasian Coursing Calendar Containing Returns Of All Public Courses Run In Australia With Extended Pedigrees Of Winning Greyhounds And Greyhounds At The Stud
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
The Australasian Coursing Calendar Containing Returns Of All Public Courses Run In Australia With Extended Pedigrees Of Winning Greyhounds And Greyhounds At The Stud written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Coursing categories.
Wallaby
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Author : Sybil Edward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Wallaby written by Sybil Edward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with categories.
Canadian Shorthorn Herd Book
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Author : Canadian Shorthorn Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
Canadian Shorthorn Herd Book written by Canadian Shorthorn Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Cattle categories.
American Short Horn Importations Containing The Pedigrees Of All Short Horn Cattle Hitherto Imported Into America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
American Short Horn Importations Containing The Pedigrees Of All Short Horn Cattle Hitherto Imported Into America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Cattle categories.
