Download or read book The WAAF in Wartime Australia written by Joyce a Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The WAAAF in Wartime Australia written by Joyce A. Thomson and published by Melbourne University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working in areas as diverse as intelligence and chemical warfare research, the 27,000 women who served in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force changed the role of women in wartime. Joyce Thomson firmly establishes the WAAAF 's place in history and examines the political and public debate stirred by its formation and development amidst male prejudice and the changing status of women.
Download or read book The WAAAF in Wartime Australia written by Joyce Aubrey Thomson and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1991 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working in areas as diverse as intelligence and chemical warfare research, the 27,000 women who served in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force changed the role of women in wartime. Joyce Thomson firmly establishes the WAAAF 's place in history and examines the political and public debate stirred by its formation and development amidst male prejudice and the changing status of women.
Download or read book Australia 1942 written by Peter Dean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the way in which Australia confronted the challenge of the shadow of war in 1942.
Download or read book Fighting the Enemy written by Mark Johnston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting the Enemy is about men with the job of killing each other. Based on the wartime writings of hundreds of Australian front-line soldiers during World War II, this powerful and resonant book contains many moving descriptions of high emotion and drama. Soldiers' interactions with their enemies are central to war, and their attitudes to their adversaries are crucial to the way wars are fought. This book is an unprecedented and thorough examination of the way Australian combat soldiers interacted with troops from the four powers engaged in World War II.
Download or read book Battle over the Atlantic written by John Quaife and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outbreak of World War II, somewhat by accident — and just as the first shots of the war were fired — young Australian airmen from the Royal Australian Air Force were engaged in operations that would become known collectively as the Battle of the Atlantic. Arguably lesser-known than air campaigns in other theatres, large numbers of Australians who volunteered for service with Royal Australian Air Force, found themselves fighting in this battle. Australians were there at the outbreak and many would go on to fly some of the final missions of the war in Europe. This book captures some of the experiences of the Royal Australian Air Force members who served with Coastal Command and, through the weight of numbers alone, stories of the Sunderland squadrons and the Battle of the Atlantic dominate the narrative. Being critical to Britain’s survival, the battle also dominated Coastal Command throughout the war but Australians served in a surprising variety of other roles. The nature of many of those tasks demanded persistence that could only be achieved by large numbers of young men and women being prepared to ‘do what it took’ to get a tedious and unrewarding job done. Over 400 did not come home.
Download or read book On All Fronts written by Jim Haynes and published by Dogwise Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From North Africa to the home front, the big part played by a small nation"--Cover.
Download or read book Whispering Death written by Mark Johnston and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful, authoritative and provocative, this is the first one-volume history of the RAAF's immense conflict with Japan.
Download or read book Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific written by Amanda Laugesen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book includes chapters that explore the impact of war and its aftermath in language and official discourse. It covers a broad chronological range from the First World War to very recent experiences of war, with a focus on Australia and the Pacific region. It examines three main themes in relation to language: the impact of war and trauma on language, the language of war remembrance, and the language of official communications of war and the military. An innovative work that takes an interdisciplinary approach to the themes of war and language, the collection will be of interest to students and scholars across linguistics, literary studies, history and conflict studies.
Download or read book All In written by Michael McKernan and published by Melbourne, Vic. : Nelson. This book was released on 1983 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian home front during World War II.; Americans in Australia - War bridesia - War brides.
Download or read book World War II written by Michael Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australia in the War of 1939 1945 Vol VII The Final Campaigns written by Gavin Long and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concludes the Army Series. It describes the Australian Army campaigns in the last months of 1944 and in 1945. It tells the full story of the fighting in Bougainville, New Britain, round Wewak, at Balikpapan and Tarakan and in British Borneo.
Download or read book Australian Women at War written by Patsy Adam-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Patsy Adam-Smith wrote Australian Women at War in 1984, her aim was to tap into the memories of all the 'brave, modest, forgotten women' while they were still alive, in order to honour them. Now, for the first time, this iconic volume is republished for an entirely new generation of readers. This magnificent work is a history of how Australian women have responded to war - from 1900, when the first nurses sailed to the Boer War, to 1945 and its aftermath. Recording the achievements of our women for all time, it tells of their bravery, self-sacrifice, endurance and devotion. Australian Women at War is a tribute to Australian women.
Download or read book Second World War written by Richard Pelvin and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disastrous toll of the 1914-1918 conflict, the shattering of the idealistic schemes for international order that followed it and the presence of a hostile and feared Asian empire close to the north meant that Australians regarded the declaration of war as a grim necessity, not a cause for celebration as in 1914. This beautifully illustrated book is a moving pictorial record of the Second World War as experienced by the Australian men and women who contributed so much. More than 500 rarely seen photographs, historic maps, letters and diaries from the Australian War Memorial archives bring the Second World War to life and create an intimate portrayal of the very human side of battle. Australians fought in North Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe and across the Pacific. In these theatres of war, despite the hardships, the horrors and the loss of life suffered, the inextinguishable bravery, dignity and spirit shown by the Australians make the Second World War one of our greatest endeavours as a nation.
Download or read book These Eagles written by Australia. Royal Australian Air Force and published by Canberra, A.C.T. : Australian War Memorial. This book was released on 1942 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overseas War Brides written by Overseas War Brides Association Staff and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of personal accounts of women from overseas who married Australian soldiers during World War II and followed them back to Australia. Contributors are members of the Sydney-based Overseas War Brides Club. Includes photographs, listing of overseas war brides and abbreviations.
Download or read book Chased by the Sun written by Hank Nelson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glow of the sun was frightening and it chased them home . . . Bill Brill began losing height to escape the sky growing lighter above and behind him. But the sun was faster than the Wellington. By the time he crossed the west coast of Denmark he was down to 400 feet. The sun chased him across the North Sea and the East Riding of Yorkshire to Breighton. Ten per cent of the bombers were lost on the Warnemunde raid. The Australians who served in Bomber Command were highly trained members of an elite corps. They were thrown into a war of repeated bombing raids in which they had to perform complex tasks under extreme pressure and danger. They flew mission after mission with full knowledge that the odds of survival were against them - 4000 Australians died in Bomber Command - but they pressed on regardless. Many of the Australian airmen who were killed in the air over Dusseldorf or Essen are now unremembered in their homeland, but their lonely bravery contributed to the defeat of the Nazi regime. Hank Nelson vividly brings to life through his lively writing and his extensive use of personal reminiscences the extraordinary experiences of the Australians who served with the British bomber squadrons. He depicts their fears, despair and courage in the face of the most terrible experiences.
