Download or read book Anzac Girl The War Diaries of Alice Ross King written by Kate Simpson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all she had ever wanted to do. But Alice couldn't have imagined what she would see. She served four long years and was brave, humble and endlessly compassionate. Using extracts from Alice's actual diaries kept in the Australian War Memorial, this true story captures the danger, the heartache and the history of the young nurse who would one day become the most decorated woman in Australia.
Download or read book The Anzac Girls written by Peter Rees and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War. Now a major six-part television series. By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Their strength and dignity were remarkable. Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps and the wards, and the tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to shine through and enrich our experience. Profoundly moving, Anzac Girls is a story of extraordinary courage and humanity shown by a group of women whose contribution to the Anzac legend has barely been recognised in our history. Peter Rees has changed that understanding forever.
Download or read book Australian Women and War written by Melanie Oppenheimer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sourced from Oppenheimer's own research and archival material from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Red Cross archives and State Libraries, Australian Women and War contains accounts of women such as Nursing Sister Nellie Gould in the Boer War and Angela Rhodes, the first Australian Military female air traffic controller to serve in Baghdad during the second Gulf War. The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the internment (concentration) camps.
Download or read book Anzac Ted written by Belinda Landsberry and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ouch Tales of Gravity written by Kate Simpson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny story about gravity that explains why apples fall from trees, from an exciting new partnership in picture books. Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he got hit on the head by an apple. People might tell you this is the moment gravity was first discovered, but the truth is people had been discovering gravity long before Isaac. You might have even discovered it yourself ... Ouch! Have you ever wondered how gravity works? Or what life would be like without gravity? Find out in this fun introduction to the idea that what goes up must come down! 'Ouch: Tales of Gravity does a great job of breaking down something sophisticated into smaller, digestible ideas that are well described and illustrated A good school resource, it would be equally suitable on the shelf at home, where it will hold its own against narrative fiction.' Books+Publishing
Download or read book Thanks Girls and Goodbye written by Sue Hardisty and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When World War II came many of Australia's women joined the Land Army and kept the economy afloat. In this fascinating collection of interviews and letters, tribute is paid to the women of the Land Army, who worked on Australia's farms during World War II.
Download or read book Life on the Goldfields written by Douglas Neil Bradby and published by Black Dog Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life actually like on the goldfields? People travelled from all over the world to seek their fortune on the Australian goldfields. But when they got to Australia, they found life was tough. The diggers lived in makeshift tents that didn t keep out the weather or thieves. The food was bad, clean water was scarce and every day was full of danger. How did these early emigrants make a life for themselves in this harsh new place? Focusing on the Victorian diggings, Life on the Goldfields shows how these improvised communities became town and cities.
Download or read book We ll Meet Again written by Heather Tregoning-Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This education resource provides teachers and students with learning activities and information on love and friendship experienced during times of conflict. This teachers' guidebook provides classroom ready activities which encourage senior students to analyse and develop historical literacy skills through inquiry learning on the theme relationships forged, lost or found in wartime. The learning activities link to the Australian English and History Curriculum.
Download or read book Dark and Hurrying Days written by Robert Menzies and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark and Hurrying Days is the text of a diary kept by Robert Menzies, then Prime Minister of Australia, of his experiences during a wartime trip to England in 1941. It was a grim time when British cities were enduring heavy bombing and German invasion seemed imminent. Menzies' Diary reveals the shifting feelings and fears which these experiences engendered in him, and is of prime importance in capturing the brooding spirit of this grim time.
Download or read book Dear Grandpa written by Kate Simpson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book about the special relationship between a boy and his grandfather, who stay close even when they are separated by distance. Grandpa, did you know that if you rub a needle with a magnet, one end will point to the north and the other end to the south? In the south there's an apartment building 160 metres tall. From the balcony, you can see the entire city. There are cinemas and ice cream shops ... and me! As Henry measures the distance between his new apartment and Grandpa's wooden house under the mango tree, Grandpa works out how close they really are. A moving story that celebrates the bond between a boy and his grandfather.
Download or read book Fire in the Sky written by Michael Molkentin and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in 90 years dedicated to the daring and courage of the airmen and mechanics of the Australian Flying Corps - a tale of a war fought thousands of feet above the trenches from which only one in two emerged unscathed.
Download or read book Just Soldiers written by Darryl Kelly and published by Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences of Australian soldiers during World War I.
Download or read book How to Talk to Girls written by Jonathan Toussaint and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows boys how to start a conversation with a girl, discusses how to develop a friendship with a girl, and explains how to move that friendship into a true relationship.
Download or read book Finding Granny written by Kate Simpson and published by EK Books. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every two seconds, someone in the world suffers a stroke. In Finding Granny, that someone is Edie’s beloved grandmother. When Edie comes to the hospital, she is confronted by the physical changes in her grandmother: muddled words, a crooked face, a woman confined to bed. This isn’t the ‘playtime, bedtime, story-time pantomime Granny’ that Edie knows. "That’s not my Granny," she says, as she waits outside in the corridor during her mother’s visits. But when her mother takes Edie to watch one of Granny’s art therapy sessions, Edie starts to understand that the Granny she loves is still there. Finding Granny is a heart-warming story of changing relationships and the bond between children and grandparents. It’s also a sensitive exploration of coping with illness and disability that will offer children much-needed comfort.
Download or read book The Other Anzacs written by Peter Rees and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the harrowing and dramatic stories of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War. Their strength and humanity was remarkable. The author uses diaries and letters to take us into the hospital camps at the most horrific battlefronts. We see the friendships, loves, courage and compassion of these women. They are a unique group in Anzac history.
Download or read book Song of the Beauforts written by Colin M. King and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book records the exploits of the airmen of the first Australian Beaufort squadron in action in World War II. Developed as a torpedo and general reconnaissance bomber, the Beaufort was the heaviest, most powerful and most complex aircraft ever built in this country. It entered service with the Royal Australian Air Force at a time when Japanese invasion seemed imminent. As the tide of the war in the South-West Pacific turned from one mostly fought over the ocean to a land-based operation, the original squadron was joined by additional Beaufort units to form the RAAF's No 71 Wing. Employing new methods of warfare, the Beaufort crews closely supported American and Australian ground forces. Using participants' own words to describe events, from the hazards of training to the fury of offensive operations, the author vividly brings to life the bravery of the aviators and the dedication and skill of the ground crews who operated Beauforts during the protracted campaign across the South-West Pacific.
Download or read book The Boy from Boort written by Bill Gammage and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2014-07-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank Nelson was an academic, film-maker, teacher, graduate supervisor and university administrator. His career at The Australian National University (ANU) spanned almost 40 years of notable accomplishment in expanding and deepening our understanding of the history and politics of Papua New Guinea, the experience of Australian soldiers at war, bush schools and much else. This book is a highly readable tribute to him, written by those who knew him well, including his students, and also contains wide-ranging works by Hank himself. –Professor Stewart Firth, ANU.
