Download or read book The Great Emu War written by Gordon Cope and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1932 in the wheat country of Western Australia there was a plague of emus. The plague was so great that the Federal Government was convinced to send a squad of soldiers equipped with machine guns mounted on trucks. They were ordered to shoot the emus - a tactic that had been tried before and failed miserably. Still, consistency often prevails while unrequited success weeps quietly in the corner. There is a lot going on - farmers who want to secede from the Commonwealth, a State election and referendum, soldiers more interested in what is under the soil, a commander with questionable mental health, Aboriginal farmhands once again bemused by the white fellas and the usual line up of conspirators, wannabees, politicians and ordinary folks. Oh, and many thousands of emus.There is nothing more interesting or more comical - tragic - or emotional than human beings and when they live in interesting times and collide with great wealth and power, there's a lot to explore.
Download or read book The Great Emu War How Flightless Birds Bested the Australian Army written by Zahid Ameer and published by Zahid Ameer. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the incredible true story of the Great Emu War, a unique conflict where flightless birds bested the Australian Army. In 1932, Australia faced an unexpected adversary—20,000 emus invading farmlands. Armed with machine guns, the military launched a campaign to cull the emus, only to find themselves outmaneuvered by these resilient birds. This eBook dives deep into the bizarre history, offering a detailed account of the Emu War, the challenges faced by soldiers, and the lasting legacy of this fascinating event. Perfect for history enthusiasts, wildlife lovers, and those intrigued by the oddities of war, this book uncovers how nature triumphed over military might. Learn how these emus became unlikely victors in one of history’s most unusual battles.
Download or read book The Great Emu War written by Cj Evans and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Emu War of 1932 is an event one does not expect to hear about when they think of Australia, but they actually declared war on a bird. This actually happened. As a side note I would like to say that this was probably one of the funnest things that I have ever written. Also some of the language used in this book is exaggerated at times, but I trust that you dear reader will know when that occurs.
Download or read book Letters from the Emu War written by James Adrian Bryden and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Great Emu War of 1932 written by D M Wright and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BATTLE BETWEEN VERMIN AND VETERANS. When the Great War ended, Australia provided its returned soldiers with new farmland to call their own. Discovering they had grown wheat fields in the path of a flightless migratory bird, farmers open fire, but the native emus prove indestructible. Meanwhile, political unrest mounts in Western Australia. The State intends to secede to its own country and is eager to lay blame on the Federation. The Australian Government sends three soldiers to cull the birds but, proving harder to kill than any enemy they've ever faced, it won't only be the farmers who lose everything. Time is ticking... D. M. WRIGHT DELIVERS A POWERFUL DRAMA ABOUT THE BIRDS WHO PLAGUED A DIVIDING NATION AND THE MEN BEHIND THE BATTLE WHO REFUSED TO SURRENDER.
Download or read book The Emu War written by Read Smart and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when an army goes to war against a flock of birds? Dive into one of the most peculiar and intriguing chapters of Australian history: the Emu War of 1932. This compelling narrative unravels the bizarre military campaign against the emu population in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region, blending humor, tragedy, and profound lessons. Explore the vivid details of this unique conflict through topics such as: The post-World War I soldier settlements and the struggles of veteran farmers. The devastating impact of the Great Depression on agricultural communities. The unexpected migration patterns of emus and their invasions into farmland. The desperate appeals from farmers and the controversial government response. The military's initial strategy, tactical adjustments, and the ultimate outcome of their efforts. The immediate aftermath, including public and governmental reactions. Long-term consequences and the lasting legacy of the Emu War on wildlife management. This book provides an in-depth look at the Emu War, offering a fascinating glimpse into a historical event that continues to capture imaginations and provoke thought about human-wildlife conflicts and the complexities of environmental management.
Download or read book Bad Days in History written by Michael Farquhar and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Farquhar's ... entries draw from the full sweep of history to take readers through a complete year of misery, including tales of lost fortunes (like the would-be Apple investor who pulled out in 1977 and missed out on a $30 billion-dollar windfall), romance gone wrong (like the 16th-century Shah who experimented with an early form of Viagra with empire-changing results), and truly bizarre moments (like the Great Molasses Flood of 1919)"--
Download or read book Dreamings of the Great Emu War written by J. D. Young and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early part of the 20th century, the tough, prolific, gangling marauder of the sand plains invaded in a frenzy of hunger. The enemy was as old and wise as the ancient land itself. A defensive expedition was launched to engage and subdue the guerrilla soldiers. It became known as The Great Emu War.
Download or read book Letters from the Emu War written by J. A. Bryden and published by J.A. Bryden. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on true events Letters from the emu war tells the story of the great emu war of 1932 from the unique perspective of those who won. (Spoiler alert: It was the emus.) The book follows a number of fictional characters including Edward R Long-toe, the leader of the Mob and William J Whistlebeak, a researcher/historian as they travel west in search of food and inevitably find themselves in war. The story is told entirely through letters, Journals and newspaper articles. It's a book like no other based on a true event like no other.
Download or read book The Russian Origins of the First World War written by Sean McMeekin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a “tragedy of miscalculation.” Instead, he proposes that the key to the outbreak of violence lies in St. Petersburg. It was Russian statesmen who unleashed the war through conscious policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. Unlike their civilian counterparts in Berlin, who would have preferred to localize the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russian leaders desired a more general war so long as British participation was assured. The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia’s goal: partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Nearly a century has passed since the guns fell silent on the western front. But in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, World War I smolders still. Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Jews, and other regional antagonists continue fighting over the last scraps of the Ottoman inheritance. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin’s powerful exposé of Russia’s aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Farmers Or Hunter Gatherers written by Peter Sutton and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians had been led to believe because it resembled more closely the farming communities of Europe. In Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe ask why Australians have been so receptive to the notion that farming represents an advance from hunting and gathering. Drawing on the knowledge of Aboriginal elders, previously not included within this discussion, and decades of anthropological scholarship, Sutton and Walshe provide extensive evidence to support their argument that classical Aboriginal society was a hunter-gatherer society and as sophisticated as the traditional European farming methods. 'Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?' asks Australians to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal society and culture"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Australia s Most Unbelievable True Stories written by Jim Haynes and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000...emus? Or that the first royal personage to arrive in Australia was the King of Iceland and he came as a convict? And how about the spooky phenomenon of the mischief-making Guyra Ghost? From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, the surprising, the truly weird and the completely inexplicable. Told with a refreshing understatement, Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories vividly evokes a vanishing Australia when anything was possible, when characters were larger than life and the bizarre and strange were normal.
Download or read book Convincing Ground written by Bruce Pascoe and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Convincing Ground" pulses with love of country. In this powerful, lyrical and passionate new work Bruce Pascoe asks us to fully acknowledge our past and the way those actions continue to influence our nation today, both physically and intellectually. The book resonates with ongoing debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. Pascoe draws on the past through a critical examination of major historical works and witness accounts and finds uncanny parallels between the techniques and language used there to today's national political stage. He has written the book for all Australians, as an antidote to the great Australian inability to deal respectfully with the nation's constructed Indigenous past. For Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka and the back of Bourke, but in the furnace of Murdering Flat, Convincing Ground and Werribee. He knows we can't reverse the past, but believes we can bring in our soul from the fog of delusion. Pascoe proposes a way forward, beyond shady intellectual argument and immature nationalism, with our strengths enhanced and our weaknesses acknowledged and addressed.
Download or read book Dark Emu written by Bruce Pascoe and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.
Download or read book Letters from the Emu War written by J. A. Bryden and published by Playtime Books. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BASED ON TRUE EVENTS, LETTERS FROM THE EMU WAR tells the story of the Great Emu War of 1932 from the unique perspective of those who won. Follow Edward R Long-toe, William J Whistlebeak, John Feathers and others through their adventures before, during and after the war. Read journal entries, newspaper articles and letters to and from their loved ones. With every turn of the page, you will gain a deeper understanding of the life and times of emus at war. "A delightfully clever envisioning of the Australian Emu War. From war to love, friendship to bravery, this story had everything. Times of comedic genius had me laughing at this imagining of the world through an emu's eyes..." Jade, Indie Book reviewer
Download or read book Letters from the Emu War written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wrestling written by Simon Garfield and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant oral history of the golden age of British wrestling and magnificent wider social history.' Richard Osman The classic account of the men and women who used to fight each other for pride and money. Simon Garfield brings them to life in one last glorious bout of jealousy, myth, revenge, passion and deep devotion. When British wrestling was dropped from the ITV schedules in the mid-80s it left the giants of the ring - Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki - bereft. This is the true story of the circuit, the big names and their rivalries, told with humour, warmth and affection. This edition features a new afterword by the author.
