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  • Simpson's Donkey

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    55,64 kr.

  • Lost Boys of Anzac

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    52,12 kr.

  • Beyond The Broken Years

    Australian military history in 1000 books

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    88,69 kr.

  • Invading Australia: Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

    Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

    af Peter Stanley ...
    1942 was a key year in Australia's history. As its people had so long feared, White Australia, an outpost of empire, seemed about to be invaded by the Japanese. In that one year, Darwin was bombed, submarines torpedoed ships in Sydney Harbour and Australian Militiamen died on the Kokoda Trail.Each year, more and more Australians celebrate Anzac Day and honour the lives of those who fought for ... Læs mere

    200,36 kr.

  • Bad Characters

    af Peter Stanley ...
    Australians have celebrated the Anzacs for nearly a century--but what do we really know of what war did to them? Charles Bean, historian of the citizen soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force, wrote that its history spanned 'the good and the bad'--but so far Australians have only looked at the good.Leading war historian Peter Stanley reveals the citizen soldiers the army regarded as its 'bad ... Læs mere

    101,99 kr.

  • Hul! Hul!

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    300,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Armenia, Australia & the Great War

    Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide.24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became the Genocide of the Ottoman Empire's Armenians. For the first time, this book tells the powerful, and until now ... Læs mere

    52,12 kr.

  • Dragoon: First Strike

    CAVDEV Cycle

    af Peter Stanley ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    19,18 kr.

  • Charles Bean

    Man, myth, legacy

    af Peter Stanley ...
    Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was also a public servant, institutional leader, author, activist, thinker, doer, philosopher, and polemicist.In Charles Bean, ... Læs mere

    78,24 kr.

  • Commando to Colditz

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    101,99 kr.

  • Black Saturday at Steels Creek

    af Peter Stanley ...
    The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people — wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in Australia’s history. Ten of those victims died in Steels Creek, a small community on Melbourne’s outskirts. It was a beautiful place, which its residents had long treasured and loved. By the evening of 7 February 2009, it felt like a battlefield.Prize-winning historian Peter Stanley tells the ... Læs mere

    240,45 kr.

  • A Stout Pair Of Boots

    af Peter Stanley ...
    From the Western Front, to the Burma-Thailand railway, Kokoda to Gallipoli, the essential guide for travellers to the places where Australian armed forces fought overseas. 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 ... Læs mere

    144,24 kr.