Australian Salvors of World War II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Australian Salvors of World War II write by R. J. F. McDonell. This book was released on 1995. Australian Salvors of World War II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fighting the Enemy
Fighting the Enemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fighting the Enemy write by Mark Johnston. This book was released on 2000-04-16. Fighting the Enemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fighting The Enemy, first published in 2000, is about men with the job of killing each other. Based on the wartime writings of hundreds of Australian front-line soldiers during World War II, this powerful and resonant book contains many moving descriptions of high emotion and drama. Soldiers' interactions with their enemies are central to war and their attitudes to their adversaries are crucial to the way wars are fought. Yet few books look in detail at how enemies interpret each other. This book is an unprecedented and thorough examination of the way Australian combat soldiers interacted with troops from the four powers engaged in World War II: Germany, Italy, Vichy France and Japan. Each opponent has themes peculiar to it: the Italians were much ridiculed; the Germans were the most respected of enemies; the Vichy French were regarded with ambivalence; while the Japanese were the subject of much hostility, intensified by the real threat of occupation.
On All Fronts
On All Fronts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On All Fronts write by Jim Haynes. This book was released on 2010-01-01. On All Fronts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "From North Africa to the home front, the big part played by a small nation"--Cover.
Darkest Hour
Darkest Hour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Darkest Hour write by Bruce Gamble. This book was released on 2006-12-15. Darkest Hour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the defenders of this Southwest Pacific island, soon to be the war's darkest hour. Fifteen hundred men and six nurses, Lark Force, had been deployed to New Britain to fortify and defend Rabaul, capital of Australia's mandated territories. Once they'd completed their work on the strategic port and its two airfields, the group-mostly volunteers from Victoria-had settled into the routine of garrison duties, confident of being relieved within a year. But the Japanese had other ideas. Rabaul was the linchpin of their campaign to conquer the Southwest Pacific—and in the early hours of January 23 their invasion force swarmed ashore. What ensued is the story told in The Darkest Hour, a gut-wrenching account of courage and sacrifice, folly and disaster, as seen through the eyes of the few who survived. Bruce Gamble, the critically acclaimed author of Black Sheep One, follows key individuals—soldiers and junior officers, an American citizen and an Army nurse among them—through their experiences in Lark Force. Together their stories comprise a harrowing picture of the Australian forces overrun and driven into the jungle, prey to the unforgiving environment and a cruel enemy that massacred its prisoners—and tormented further by fate, when a Japanese ship transporting prisoners to Hainan Island was torpedoed by an American submarine. The dramatic stories of the Lark Force survivors, told here in full for the first time, are among the most inspiring of the Pacific War.
All In!
All In! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All In! write by Michael McKernan. This book was released on 1983. All In! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australian home front during World War II.; Americans in Australia - War bridesia - War brides.
