Download or read book The White Nile written by Alan Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the sources of the Nile. It continues with Baker of the Nile and his wife struggling with malaria, and of the famous greeting between Stanley and Livingstone. The book examines the results of their discoveries: the building of the Suez canal; the Khedive Ismail's appointment of Gordon as Governor-General of Sudan; and the story of the last days of Khartoum.
Download or read book Gallipoli written by Alan Moorehead and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the German side, its ultimate objective was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey, thus allowing the Allies to take control of the eastern Mediterranean and increase pressure on the Central Powers to drain manpower from the vital Western Front. From the very beginning of the first landings, however, the campaign went awry, and countless casualties. The Allied commanders were ignorant of the terrain, and seriously underestimated the Turkish army which had been bolstered by their German allies. Thus the Allies found their campaign staled from the off and their troops hopelessly entrenched on the hillsides for long agonising months, through the burning summer and bitter winter, in appalling, dysentery-ridden conditions. By January 1916, the death toll stood at 21,000 British troops, 11,000 Australian and New Zealand, and 87,000 Turkish and the decision was made to withdraw, which in itself, ironically, was deemed to be a success. First published in 1956, when it won the inaugural Duff Cooper Prize, Alan Moorehead's book is still regarded as the definitive work on this tragic episode of the Great War. One could argue he was the first writer to capture the true turmoil that occurred in this campaign with his colourful, analytical and compelling style of prose. Sir Max Hastings himself says in this new introduction that he was inspired as a young man by Moorehead's books to become a reporter himself. With in-depth analysis of the campaign, the objectives both sides set themselves, and with character sketches of the main players, it brings the complex operation to life, showing how and why it went so terribly wrong and a century on, remains a by word for the loss of human life.
Download or read book Alan Moorehead written by Ann Moyal and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2005 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of the National Library's biography series An Australian Life, Ann Moyal brilliantly illuminates the passion and creative energy which drove Alan Moorehead's life and work. Moorehead was one of Australia's most adventurous and celebrated writers and his work remains a vitally important part of our literature.
Download or read book The Blue Nile written by Alan Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fatal Impact written by Alan Moorehead and published by Mutual Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decimation of local populations and the local wildlife following Captain Cook's arrival forms the tragic basis of Alan Moorehead's classic study of the invasion of the South Pacific between 1767 and 1840.
Download or read book No Room in the Ark written by Alan Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Trilogy written by Alan Moorehead and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian writer Alan Moorehead was the only World War II journalist to cover almost the entire war in North Africa. African Trilogy, first published in 1944, is his acclaimed account of the prolonged battles between the Allies and the Axis powers in North Africa from 1940 to 1943.
Download or read book Desert War written by Alan Moorehead and published by Penguin Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "North Africa was the site of some of the most volatile battles of World War II. For journalist Alan Moorehead, it was war in its purest form, "a knight's tournament in empty space."" "In Desert War, which includes the complete texts of The Mediterranean Front, A Year of Battle, and The End of Africa, Moorehead writes about what he saw. He recounts with dazzling prose and intimate detail the heroes and legends, the soldiers and prisoners, the military strategies, the strengths and weaknesses of those involved, and portraits of generals Rommel, Montgomery, and Patton. Woven throughout are observations on the landscape, the Mediterranean shores and the vast desert, which inevitably played a role in shaping the battles. For Moorehead, "desert warfare resembled war at sea. Men moved by compass. No position was static. Each truck or tank was as individual as a destroyer."" "Written by a man who lived and breathed the conflict in North Africa during World War II, Desert War is a eyewitness account and an inspired piece of writing by a master of his craft."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Villa Diana written by Alan Moorehead and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above Florence, in one of the oldest inhabited parts of Italy, stood the historic 15th century home, Villa Diana. In 1948, respected war correspondent Alan Moorehead moved into the villa, which had survived World War Two despite being occupied by the troops of seven different armies. In Villa Diana, Moorhead describes with wit and affection the daily dramas he encountered, surrounded as always by the extreme physical beauty of the region. 'Alan Moorehead's book is still highly readable ... anecdotes of contemporary life that are somehow able to shake hands unselfconsciously with history and to relive a rich past sit alongside Moorehead's affectionate memories of the warm-hearted life that makes Italy so well loved by outsiders.' - The Tablet, UK
Download or read book Our Man Elsewhere written by Thornton McCamish and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure, Alan Moorehead. As a reporter, Moorehead witnessed many of the great historical events of the mid-20th century: the Spanish Civil War and both world wars, Cold War espionage, and decolonisation in Africa. He debated strategy with Churchill and Gandhi, fished with Hemingway, and drank with Graham Greene, Ava Gardner and Truman Capote. As well as being a regular contributor to the New Yorker, in 1956 Moorehead wrote the first significant book about the Gallipoli campaign. With its countless adventures, its touch of jet-set glamour and its tragic arc, Moorehead’s story is a beguiling one. Thornton McCamish tells it as a quest – intimate, perceptive and superbly entertaining. His funny, ardent book reveals an extraordinary Australian and takes its place in a fresh tradition of contemporary biography. Winner of the 2017 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Shortlisted for the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Longlisted in the 2016 Walkley Book Awards ‘[McCamish] succeeds beautifully: Our Man Elsewhere is crammed with anecdote and shrewd observation, with the kind of detail and ruminative digression that conventional biographers might consider trivial or irrelevant ... [it] is such a good book that I’m hard put to find anything wrong with it.’ —Inside Story ‘This is one of those rare biographies that will keep you transfixed right to the very last pages, even though in this instance, they are scorchingly sad.’ —Country Style ‘McCamish’s triumph is to apply Moorehead’s own relentless curiosity to his subject, and add a modern prism to the man and his work. McCamish’s writing is elegant, frosted in fresh insights ... marvellous.’ —Herald Sun ‘A detailed, involving and very readable look at the life of a flawed man with a large appetite for life.’ —Books+Publishing ‘Full-hearted, free-striding – this is a book that sings.’ —Helen Garner
Download or read book African Trilogy written by Alan Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers of Alan Moorehead written by Alan Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Acc05.076 instalment comprises the VHS video obtained by Ann Moyal from Nine Network Australia "Alan Moorehead and Robert Raymond in Gallipoli - No. 1 of Project 64" (1964). It reveals Moorehead's capacity as a television interviewee and is also considered as one of Raymond's most important documentaries. The instalment also includes a photograph of Moorehead from the documentary (1 folder).
Download or read book A Late Education written by Alan Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling self-portrait of the author's flight from Australia to the ex-patriate scene of London & Paris, & his career as an overseas correspondent, covering WWI in North Africa & Europe.
Download or read book Eclipse written by Alan Moorehead and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland. With a new introduction by James Holland Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany. Moorehead's book describes his experiences in Sicily and southern Italy in 1943, which culminated in the capture of Rome. He tells the electrifying story of D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the Allied advance through northern France and Belgium, the crossing of the Rhine. The author reconstructs, in terrifying detail, the collapse of Germany, the wholesale destruction, mass surrenders, and the unimaginable horrors of the concentration camps.
Download or read book Alan Moorehead written by Tom Pocock and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Moorehead was lionized as the literary man of action: the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II; author of award-winning books; star travel-writer of The New Yorker'; pioneer publicist of wildlife conservation. Then, at the height of his success, his writing suddenly stopped and when, 17 years later, his death was announced, he seemed a heroic figure from the past.
Download or read book The Russian Revolution written by Alan Moorehead and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, classic account of the Russian Revolution. Still the most readable history of the revolution, which sheds light on the Western view of the Soviet Union at the time.
Download or read book Montgomery written by Alan Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
