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  • Duntroon

    The Royal Military College of Australia 1911–1986

    af Chris Clark ...
    Serier Bog 43 - Untapped
    When the Royal Military College of Australia opened on a former sheep station in 1911, it was the first federal institution established in the national capital. The college continues to train the Australian Army’s officer corps even today. First published in 1986, this is the story of a small, sometimes controversial institution and its impact on Australian society, the Canberra community and the ... Læs mere

    55,06 kr.

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  • Alastair Denniston

    Code-Breaking from Room 40 to Berkeley Street and the Birth of GCHQ

    "The expertly researched biography of the man who created and led the British intelligence organization best known for cracking the Nazi's codes." — Midwest Book ReviewSome of the individuals who played key roles in the success of Bletchley Park in reading the secret communications of Britain's enemies during the Second World War have become well-known figures. However, the man who created and led ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Jungle Warriors

    From Tobruk to Kokoda and beyond, how the Australian Army became the world's most deadly jungle fighting force

    Australians are acknowledged as being among the best, if not the best, jungle fighters. This fascinating and revealing history explores how the Australian soldier evolved from being trained for and fighting European and desert wars, fought in open country often by large numbers of troops, to the very close warfare of jungle combat.Australians are acknowledged as being among the best, if not the ... Læs mere

    129,81 kr.

  • New Zealand's Great War

    New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War

    This book is a collection of essays arising out of the Zealandias Great War conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealands involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, ... Læs mere

    108,24 kr.

  • Terror In Ireland

    1916-1923

    The practice of terror in revolutionary Ireland remains a highly controversial topic, which seldom receives either balanced or dispassionate treatment. This collection of essays is designed to illuminate the varied origins, forms and consequences of terror, whether practised by republicans or forces of the Crown. It is the fifth production of the Trinity History Workshop, an informal group of ... Læs mere

    74,97 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • 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.

  • Anzac's Dirty Dozen

    12 myths of Australian military history

    Redigeret af Craig Stockings ...
    Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealisation of 'Australian' virtues can thrive. In Anzac's Dirty Dozen a team of renowned historians resume the battle to expose a host of stubborn fantasies and ... Læs mere

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  • Invading Australia: 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

    208,38 kr.

  • Stealth Raiders

    A Few Daring Men in 1918

    af Lucas Jordan ...
    In 1918 a few daring low-ranking Australian infantrymen, alone among all the armies on the Western Front, initiated stealth raids without orders. These stealth raiders killed Germans, captured prisoners and advanced the line, sometimes by thousands of yards. They were held in high regard by other men of the lower ranks and were feared by the Germans facing them.Who were these stealth raiders and ... Læs mere

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  • Revealing Secrets

    An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber

    For a long time, the Australian Signals intelligence (or Sigint) story has been kept secret. Until now…Why does Australia have a national signals intelligence agency? What does it do and why is it controversial? And how significant are its ties with key partners, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand, to this arrangement?Revealing Secrets is a compelling account of ... Læs mere

    130,42 kr.

  • Air Disaster Canberra

    The plane crash that destroyed a government

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    Wartime Australia. Key members of Menzies' government die in a fiery plane crash. What went wrong and what happened next? In August 1940 Australia had been at war for almost a year when a Hudson bomber – the A16-97 – carrying ten people, including three cabinet ministers, crashed into a ridge near Canberra. In the ghastly inferno that followed the crash, the nation lost its key war leaders. Over ... Læs mere

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  • The Summer Campaign In Kerry

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    On Wednesday, 2 August 1922, Free State troops landed at Fenit pier in the first of a series of seaborne landings on the Cork and Kerry coast. This was a risky and ambitious strategy for the Free State government, whose aim was to surprise the staunchly anti-Treaty republicans in Kerry. By attacking them from an unexpected direction the government hoped to shorten the war, however, over the months ... Læs mere

    62,91 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus