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  • Commando to Colditz

    door Peter Stanley ...
    A compelling, riveting read, Commando to Colditz is an unusual perhaps unique war story. It is centred around a most unusual war hero: Michael 'Micky' Burn, soldier, poet and novelist, whose journey from fascist follower, to commander of Six Troop, to Commando, to prisoner (and communist lecturer) in the notorious prison of Colditz forms the focal point of this powerful narrative. In 1942 Micky ... Meer lezen

    11,57 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Hul! Hul!

    door Peter Stanley ...
    If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal ‘Hul’ (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion–to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army’s infantry was committed and in which at least 10,000 Santals died–has been forgotten. While its memory lived among Santals, British officers ... Meer lezen

    34,97 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Dragoon: First Strike

    CAVDEV Cycle

    door Peter Stanley ...
    Serie series CAVDEV Cycle
    It finally happened… and the aliens were out for conquest.Amid a worldwide invasion, a secluded part of the world holds its own against the unwelcome intruders.Flight Lieutenant Nathan Harvey, a helicopter pilot from the Royal New Zealand Air Force is recruited into the CAVDEV, an experimental powered armor unit.He quickly finds himself leading the fight on the front lines against an overwhelming ... Meer lezen

    2,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Beyond The Broken Years

    Australian military history in 1000 books

    door Peter Stanley ...
    What does Australia’s military history reveal about us?In Beyond The Broken Years – fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage’s classic on World War One soldiers, was published – provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it’s vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created. By whom, how and with what consequences.Stanley explores military history and ... Meer lezen

    16,99 €

  • Oboe One, Tarakan, 1945

    An Australian Tragedy

    door Peter Stanley ...
    In 1945, the small island of Tarakan off Borneo's coast became the unlikely stage for one of the Second World War's most gruelling campaigns. As part of General Douglas MacArthur's plan to liberate the Netherlands Indies, Australian soldiers launched Operation Oboe One, a mission to capture Tarakan’s airstrip. What was meant to last three weeks stretched into two months of bitter jungle warfare, ... Meer lezen

    16,76 €

  • The Sherrin

    A bloody battle on and off the field

    door Peter Stanley ...
    The island of New Aachen is a hotbed of turmoil, with more than just the enemy in the firing line.In May 1945, as Europe celebrates the end of WWII, the Pacific theatre remains a brutal battleground. On the remote Pacific Island of New Aachen, the site of a massacre of Australian troops three years prior, tensions run high.David Wachter, a veteran turned war historian clerk, joins a group of ... Meer lezen

    16,76 €

  • Simpson's Donkey

    door Peter Stanley ...
    Based on the most famous animal in Australian history Simpson's Donkey tells the story of his service during the Gallipoli campaign where for three weeks he was one of several donkeys that Simpson used to carry wounded men down to Anzac Cove. His life before and after Gallipoli is a mystery but Peter Stanley beautifully imagines the rest for the reader.Stanley tells the donkey's story--in the ... Meer lezen

    6,31 €

  • The Most Terrible Night

    Allonville 1918: The AIF's Most Costly Shell Burst

    door Peter Stanley ...
    ‘Peter Stanley has brilliantly brought to life what seems like a small wartime incident, demonstrating its effects on the participants at the time and for decades later. This is woven insightfully into the bigger story of the Anzac narrative and its legacy for Australia.’— Daniel Reynaud, author, The Man the Anzacs Revered and Faith of the AnzacsThey survived Gallipoli, Pozières, Bullecourt and ... Meer lezen

    20,12 €

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  • Lost Boys of Anzac

    door Peter Stanley ...
    Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the very first wave to land at dawn on 25 April 1915 and who died on that day. There were exactly 101 of ... Meer lezen

    9,99 €

  • Falklands/Malvinas 1982

    A War of Two Sides

    Serie series Wars and Battles of the World
    After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war.It provides a comprehensive overview of the Falkland/Malvinas War by integrating the military history of the conflict into the diplomatic, political, social ... Meer lezen

    53,73 €

  • Audioboek

    Burn For Me [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Hidden Legacy 1

    Serie series Hidden Legacy

    Niet ingekort

    9 uur 15 min

    In this spellbinding first dramatized audiobook in #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews’ urban fantasy Hidden Legacy series, private detective Nevada Baylor navigates her way through an alternate world where dynasties, built on inherited wealth and magic, guide the course of humanity.Nevada Baylor runs a small-time detective agency in Houston, Texas, busting scammers, exposing ... Meer lezen

    24,56 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • A Stout Pair of Boots

    A guide to exploring Australia's battlefields

    door Peter Stanley ...
    Australians are becoming increasingly fascinated by their military history, and every year greater numbers visit the scenes of the battles commemorated each Anzac Day - Villers-Bretonneux, Long Tan, Kokoda, Gallipoli itself. But what can you learn from visiting a battlefield? And how do you make sure you get the most out of the experience?Peter Stanley, one of Australia's most experienced military ... Meer lezen

    10,52 €