Download or read book The Cowra Breakout written by Mat McLachlan and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting story of the missing piece of Australia's World War II history, told by bestselling historian Mat McLachlan (Walking with the Anzacs, Gallipoli: The Battlefield Guide). During World War II, in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, Japanese prisoners of war were held in a POW camp. By August 1944, over a thousand were interned and on the icy night of August 5th they staged one of the largest prison breakouts in history, launching the only land battle of World War II to be fought on Australian soil. Five Australian soldiers and more than 230 Japanese POWs would die during what became known as The Cowra Breakout. This compelling and fascinating book, written by one of Australia's leading battlefield historians, vividly traces the full story of the Breakout. It is a tale of proud warriors and misfit Australian soldiers. Of negligence and complacency, and of authorities too slow to recognise danger before it occurred - and too quick to cover it up when it was too late. But mostly it is a story about raw human emotions, and the extremes that people will go to when they feel all hope is lost.
Download or read book Shame and the Captives written by Thomas Keneally and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If the legendary Schindler’s List was not enough to showcase Thomas Keneally’s literary mastery, then [this novel] surely will” (New York Daily News) as the Booker Prize-winning author reimagines from all sides the drastic true events of the night more than one thousand Japanese POWs staged the largest and bloodiest prison escape of World War II. Alice is living on her father-in-law’s farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian inmate at the prisoner-of-war camp down the road, is assigned to work on the farm, she hopes that being kind to him will somehow influence her husband’s treatment. What she doesn’t anticipate is how dramatically Giancarlo will change the way she understands both herself and the wider world. What most challenges Alice and her fellow townspeople is the utter foreignness of the thousand-plus Japanese inmates and their deeply held code of honor, which the camp commanders fatally misread. Mortified by being taken alive in battle and preferring a violent death to the shame of living, the Japanese prisoners plan an outbreak with shattering and far-reaching consequences for all the citizens around them. In a career spanning half a century, Thomas Keneally has proven brilliant at exploring ordinary lives caught up in extraordinary events. With this profoundly gripping and thought-provoking novel, inspired by a notorious incident in New South Wales in 1944, he once again shows why he is celebrated as a writer who “looks into the heart of the human condition with a piercing intelligence that few can match” (Sunday Telegraph).
Download or read book Voyage from Shame written by Harry Gordon and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From overwhelming shame to a sense of pride - that many former Japanese prisoners have undergone. In doing so, it makes a contribution to history, to understanding, and to reconciliation.
Download or read book Denkschrift des Nationalen Frauendienstes Frankfurt a M written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captured Lives written by Peter Monteath and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured Lives peers behind the barbed wire drawn around people deemed threats to Australia's security during the two world wars. Civilians from enemy nations, even if born in Australia, were subjects of suspicion and locked away in internment camps. Prisoners-of-war were shipped from the other side of the world and shut away in camps in country Australia. No matter how unjust their internment or how severe the privations, most internees and POWs worked out ways to relieve their discomfort, physical and mental, and their boredom. Internees devoted their time to creative pursuits like theatre, musical ensembles, art and photography, while others involved themselves in sporting activities, gardening or studying. Captured Lives mentions over 30 of the main camps that were spread across Australia during the two world wars. Included are sketches, watercolours and photographs made by internees serve as references of the conditions and life in the camps from an insider's perspective.
Download or read book Gallipoli written by Mat McLachlan and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli. Each year, thousands of Australians visit Gallipoli to pay homage and see where their forebears fought, suffered and died. Anzac Cove, Quinn's Post, Lone Pine - the iconic places where our national legend was forged. In this essential and authoritative guide, practical information is combined with historical detail, alongside revealing and often heartrending quotes from the letters and diaries of the Anzacs themselves. - Detailed easy-to-follow plans for walking and driving tours across the main battlefields - Maps, photos and historical commentary to put the campaign in context - Everything you need to know where to go, where to stay and how to get there. Walk where the Anzacs walked, see where they fought and marvel at their courage.
Download or read book Jack s Visit to Cowra Japanese written by Lusi Austin and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved story of Jack's Visit to Cowra - is now available in Japanese. Translated by Teruko Sharif, Jack's Visit to Cowra is the story of a young city boy who travels to the country to spend the weekend with his grandparents. Whilst there, Jack hears the compelling story of a Japanese man once found by his Pa in a chicken coop. Jack learns that during a time of war, Cowra was chosen as a place to have a camp of captured Japanese soldiers. Pa recalls the night that the soldiers broke out. Jack's Visit to Cowra also deals with the post-war restoration and friendship that occurred between Japan and Australia because of the kindness shown by the people of Cowra. This new edition into Japanese opens up the story to an international audience.
Download or read book Michi s Memories written by Keiko Tamura and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Michi, one of 650 Japanese war brides who arrived in Australia in the early 1950s. The women met Australian servicemen in post-war Japan and decided to migrate to Australia as wives and fiancées to start a new life. In 1953, when Michi reached Sydney Harbour by boat with her two Japanese-born children, she knew only one person in Australia: her husband. She did not know any English so she quickly learned her first English phrase, "I like Australia", in the car on the way from the harbour to meet her Australian family. In the last fifty years, she brought up seven children while the family moved from one part of Australia to another. Now, in her eighties, she leads a peaceful life in Adelaide, but remains active in many ways. Her voice is full of life and she looks and sounds much younger than her age.
Download or read book 75th Anniversary of the Cowra Breakout written by Cowra Breakout 75th Anniversary Committee and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Man Inside written by Graham Apthorpe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Graham Apthorpe’s account of the Cowra outbreak is superb. Narrated in a fresh way, in elegant and original prose, and with a wonderful gift for taking the unexpected angle, it does great service to this astonishing Australian-Japanese event, and will have a honoured place in the canon of fascinating works on the incident." - Thomas Keneally The War in the Pacific has turned; thousands of the previously invincible Japanese soldiers are now being captured in New Guinea and interned at the Cowra Prisoner of War Camp. Unlike other POWs, the traditional Japanese Bushido Code and their fanaticism leaves them ill-equipped for surrender and imprisonment. Ashamed, subdued and sullen, one man, Second Lieutenant Maseo Naka is an exception. Obstructing the Australian authorities at every turn, he was the first Japanese soldier to escape from Cowra. This action becomes the precursor for the more than 1000 Japanese prisoners who escape in the bloodiest Breakout of World War II that ultimately saw 234 Japanese and four Australian guards killed. His escape and the defiance, guilt, and shame that motivated it, led to his court-martial. Naka nevertheless stands-out as very human, another tragic victim of the global inferno that was World War II. Adhering to the Samurai Code of Bushido, he doggedly undertakes actions that he views as necessary for the maintenance of his “honour”. Through the insights of those around Naka, together with new research including the personal accounts of Australian interrogators, the author shows how this handsome loner provided the impetus for the dramatic events in the early hours of August 5, 1944 where hundreds of Japanese soldiers stormed the Camp defences for honour, or death!
Download or read book Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms written by Anita Heiss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Meticulously researched, and the result is Heiss’s great achievement: the reader is transported in place and time.’ – The Australian 'Tact and intelligence are sustained to the end of this bold novel of the wartime home front’ -- Sydney Morning Herald ‘With deftness and a lightness of touch … Heiss's strengths as a writer are on full display’ – The Conversation A story about a love that transcends all boundaries, from one of Australia’s best loved authors. 5 AUGUST, 1944 Over 1000 Japanese soldiers break out of the No.12 Prisoner of War compound on the fringes of Cowra. In the carnage, hundreds are killed, many are recaptured, and some take their own lives rather than suffer the humiliation of ongoing defeat. But one soldier, Hiroshi, manages to escape. At nearby Erambie Station, an Aboriginal mission, Banjo Williams, father of five and proud man of his community, discovers Hiroshi, distraught and on the run. Unlike most of the townsfolk who dislike and distrust the Japanese, the people of Erambie choose compassion and offer Hiroshi refuge. Mary, Banjo’s daughter, is intrigued by the softly spoken stranger, and charged with his care. For the community, life at Erambie is one of restriction and exclusion – living under Acts of Protection and Assimilation, and always under the ruthless eye of the mission Manager. On top of wartime hardships, families live without basic rights. Love blossoms between Mary and Hiroshi, and they each dream of a future together. But how long can Hiroshi be hidden safely and their bond kept a secret?
Download or read book The Architecture of Confinement written by Anoma Pieris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this global and comparative study of Pacific War incarceration environments we explore the arc of the Pacific Basin as an archipelagic network of militarized penal sites. Grounded in spatial, physical and material analyses focused on experiences of civilian internees, minority citizens, and enemy prisoners of war, the book offers an architectural and urban understanding of the unfolding history and aftermath of World War II in the Pacific. Examples are drawn from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, and North America. The Architecture of Confinement highlights the contrasting physical facilities, urban formations and material character of various camps and the ways in which these uncover different interpretations of wartime sovereignty. The exclusion and material deprivation of selective populations within these camp environments extends the practices by which land, labor and capital are expropriated in settler-colonial societies; practices critical to identity formation and endemic to their legacies of liberal democracy.
Download or read book BUG Australia 2005 written by Tim Uden and published by BUG Backpackers Guide. This book was released on 2005 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Budget travel is what BUG guides are all about - no flash hotels and fancy banquets - just the most comprehensive information on backpackers' hostels and living it up without blowing the budget.
Download or read book In the Vernacular written by and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting important works from one of Australia's leading scholars of media, culture, and policy, this study brings sharper focus upon both historical and industrial contexts. Engaging with the global debate on multiethnic societies by focusing on creativity at the margins, this survey argues that industrial and social trends in media, communications, and culture are outstripping the academic frameworks that were erected to deal with them.
Download or read book On Patrol with the SAS written by Gary McKay and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this book come from first-hand experiences of the men of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment as they conduct their operations in Borneo and South Vietnam.
Download or read book Memories of the Cowra Breakout written by Wal McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cowra Breakout and Other POW Camp Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
