The Korean War
Title | The Korean War PDF eBook |
Author | Cameron Forbes |
Publisher | Macmillan Publishers Aus. |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1742624146 |
The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world's most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions and nuclear warheads. Cameron Forbes, acclaimed author of Hellfire, tells the story of the war and Australia's involvement in it in a riveting narrative. From the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Korea's unforgiving hills and mountains to the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow and Beijing, The Korean War reveals the conflict on all its levels - human, military and geopolitical. In the tradition of Les Carlyon's Gallipoli and The Great War and Paul Ham's Vietnam, Cameron Forbes has written a masterpiece that will serve as the definitive history of Australia and the Korean War. Winner of FAW National Literary Awards for Best Fiction 2010
The Crisis
Title | The Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1958-01 |
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The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
Reg Saunders
Title | Reg Saunders PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Dolan |
Publisher | NewSouth |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Aboriginal |
ISBN | 9781742234243 |
"Soldier, leader, commissioned army officer: meet Captain Reg Saunders, World War II hero" -- Back cover.
The Labradorians
Title | The Labradorians PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne D. Fitzhugh |
Publisher | Breakwater Books |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781550811483 |
Explorer Jacques Cartier dismissed it as the land God gave to Cain, but generations of people from widely differing cultures living in dense wilderness conditions have forged the people of Labrador into a thriving, vital culture of their own. Here are their stories in their own voices, written by the expert hand of a person whose heart's home is Labrador.
Forged by War
Title | Forged by War PDF eBook |
Author | Gina Lennox |
Publisher | Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0522851711 |
In Forged By War, Australian veterans and their families reveal the experience of combat and how it has changed their lives. These stark first-hand accounts describe the reality of military action and its personal consequences in every major conflict and peacemaking mission since World War II, including the invasion of Iraq. Sometimes the reader is in lockstep with a soldier on patrol, watching as a land mine explodes, or a local militiaman points an AKandndash;47 at Australian peacemakers. Other times, the reader is inside a returned veteran's head, feeling their superfluous adrenalin, their need to control their environment, even at home. With accounts from Peter and Lynne Cosgrove, Graham Edwards, Frank Hunt (I Was Only Nineteen), other veterans of Vietnam, Glenda Humes (daughter of Capt Reginald Saunders), peacemakers and an SAS trooper, this compelling investigation by Gina Lennox in underpinned by the question: where does family fit in a soldier's life?
Audacity
Title | Audacity PDF eBook |
Author | Carlie Walker |
Publisher | ATOM |
Pages | 110 |
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Audacity is the second book in the Century of Service series developed jointly by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Australian War Memorial. It highlights the bravery of Australian service personnel in conflicts from the Boer War to Afghanistan. This eBook features exclusive content including two additional stories, an interview with Victoria Cross for Australia recipient Corporal Daniel Keighran VC, original medal citations, interactive timelines and artwork and medal galleries. Readers can also test their knowledge by completing a multiple choice quiz or a Guess the Word game.
Fighters from the Fringe
Title | Fighters from the Fringe PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Anthony Hall |
Publisher | Aboriginal Studies Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0855752866 |
Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people served their country during World War II and this book focuses on the experiences of six of those soldiers.