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Hitler's decision to invade Russia, 1941
Par Robert Cecil. 1975
When Hitler refused to examine the possibilities of a compromise peace with Stalin, he ensured that not only Germany would…
lose the war, but that the Russians would be drawn into the heart of Europe's pursuit of the retreating forces of the Third Reich.Unpatriotic history of the Second World War
Par James Heartfield. 2012
This book explains why the Great Powers fought most of their war not in their own countries, but in colonies…
in North Africa, in the Far East and in Germanys hoped-for Empire in the East. Find out how wildcat strikes, partisans in Europe and Asia, and soldiers mutinies came close to ending the war. And find out how the Allies invaded Europe and the Far East to save capitalism from being overthrown.Among the dead cities: was the allied bombing of civilians in WWII a necessity or a crime?
Par A. C Grayling. 2006
Among the Dead Cities is both a lucid and revealing work of modern history and an urgent moral investigation. Grayling…
details the industrial nature of the area bombing in Germany, and also of the US bombing of Japan that culminated in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He looks at the stands people took, both for and against, and crucially asks what are the lessons that we can learn for today about how people should behave in a world of tension and moral confusion, of terrorism and bitter rivalries.Pacific 360 degrees: Australia's battle for survival in World War II
Par Roland Perry. 2012
Pacific 360 is a sweeping national narrative that looks for the first time at the Pacific War in its entirety,…
bringing together the story behind one of the most crucial times in Australian history. On 7 December 1941, Australia was pushed to centre stage as Japan entered World War II and began the offensive which triggered the Pacific War. Roland Perry captures the drama and detail of the Australian Government's political and military struggle with allies and enemies alike as those at home prepared for a fight to the death, while in the Pacifc theatre Australia's armed forces fought for the nation's very existence.This chronological dual narrative follows the story of Australia's Pacific War on the front lines and at home, and how such a critical moment in history has affected and shaped Australia's political and social culture.Innocents abroad: the story of British evacuees in Australia, 1940-45
Par Edward Stokes. 1994
The moving story of the British children evacuees who sailed to Australia: their homesickness, fears, courage and adventures. It tells…
of new lives in strange cities and in the bush: loving homes for most, and for some, neglect and exploitation.MacArthur's undercover war: spies, saboteurs, guerrillas and secret missions
Par William B Breuer. 1995
The covert war General Douglas MacArthur waged against Japanese forces in the Pacific arena was the largest undercover operation ever…
undertaken. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the legendary exploits and heroism of the thousands of courageous individuals who fought as spies, guerrillas, propagandists, and saboteurs behind enemy lines. In an action-packed narrative, MacArthur's Undercover War tells of thrilling feats of valor and derring-do - impossible missions to blow up harbors, kidnap heads of state, undermine currency, and arrange prison escapes, all deep within enemy territory. Firsthand interviews with veterans and information from previously unpublished documents reveal a riveting tale of World War II that has never been fully told.War on our doorstep: diaries of Australians at the frontline in 1942
Par Gabrielle Chan. 2004
As the clock struck twelve to signal the start of 1942, Australians did not give the New Year their traditional…
noisy welcome. Regular events were cancelled, nightclub bookings were down and most people stayed in their blacked out homes. Clocks were put forward an hour for the start of daylight saving, as part of a war-time scheme to save power. All around the Pacific, Japan was making gains. They already occupied most of China; bombed Pearl Harbour, Guam and Wake; sunk the stars of the British naval fleet, the Prince of Wales and Repulse. They had landed in British Borneo, Hong Kong and the Philippines. This is the story of 1942, as told in first-hand accounts by the men and women in Australia and around the world.Cruiser: the life and loss of HMAS Perth and her crew
Par Michael Carlton. 2011
Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of…
its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth.Most were young - many were still teenagers - from cities and towns, villages and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous years they did battle with the forces of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the Vichy French and, finally, the Imperial Japanese Navy. In the Mediterranean in 1941 they were bombed by the Luftwaffe and the Italian Air Force for months on end until, ultimately, during the disastrous evacuation of the Australian army from Crete, their ship took a direct hit and thirteen men were killed. After the fall of Singapore in 1942, HMAS Perth was hurled into the forlorn campaign to stem the Japanese advance towards Australia. Off the coast of Java in March that year she met an overwhelming enemy naval force. Firing until her ammunition literally ran out, she was sunk with the loss of 353 of her crew, including her much-loved captain and the Royal Australian Navy's finest fighting sailor, 'Hardover' Hec Waller. Another 328 men were taken into Japanese captivity, most to become slave labourers in the infinite hell of the Burma-Thai railway. Many died there, victims of unspeakable atrocity. Only 218 men, less than a third of her crew, survived to return home at war's end. Cruiser is their story. And the story of those who loved them and waited for them.The snack thief (Inspector Montalbano #3)
Par Andrea Camilleri. 2005
When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is…
machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life - as well as Montalbano's - is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue.Through other eyes: the Fred Hollows Foundation ten years on
Par Thomas Keneally. 2002
In the 10 years since Fred Hollows died, the Fred Hollows Foundation has continued his pioneering work to help bring…
sight and better health to the disadvantaged. To mark the decade anniversary, various journalists and photographers visited the Foundation's health and eye-care programs in Australia and overseas - to meet those who run them and the people they seek to help. Through Other Eyes is the result - a collection of inspiring accounts of the blind seeing again, and the committed individuals working ceaselessly to achieve first-class eye-care in some of the most difficult conditions imaginable. Contains an introduction by Thomas Keneally.Macular degeneration: the complete guide to saving and maximizing your sight
Par Marja Mogk, Lylas G Mogk. 1999
The author, a doctor and loving daughter of a parent with this frightening though manageable condition, explains the ailment and…
how to take steps to limit its effect on one's life. Includes information on reducing risk factors, experimental treatments and research, coping with depression and frustration, what families and friends can do to help and healthy recipes.Radio girl: the story of the extraordinary Mrs Mac, pioneering engineer and wartime legend
Par David F Dufty. 2020
All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of…
reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II. As you climbed the rickety stairs of an old woolshed at Sydney harbour in 1944, you would hear the thrum of clicks and buzzes. Rows of men and women in uniforms and headsets would be tapping away vigorously at small machines, under the careful watch of their young female trainers. Presiding over the cacophony was a tiny woman, known to everyone as 'Mrs Mac', one of Australia's wartime legends. A smart girl from a poor mining town who loved to play with her father's tools, Violet McKenzie became an electrical engineer, a pioneer of radio and a successful businesswoman. As the clouds of war gathered in the 1930s, she defied convention and trained young women in Morse code, foreseeing that their services would soon be sorely needed. Always a champion of women, she was instrumental in getting Australian women into the armed forces. Mrs Mac was adored by the thousands of young women and men she trained, and came to be respected by the defence forces and the public too for her vision and contribution to the war effort.The world must know: the history of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Par Michael Berenbaum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 1993
Night
Par Elie Wiesel, Francois Mauriac. 1981
Born in a Hungarian ghetto, Elie Wiesel was sent as a child to the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and…
Buchenwald. This is the story of that atrocity; here he relates his childhood perceptions of an inhumanity that was as painful as it was absolute.Bloodhound: searching for my father
Par Ramona Koval. 2015
"I looked up the name in the phone book and rang the number. I tried to imagine the conversation that…
might ensue. ‘Hello? I was wondering if you’re the man who was recently at an auction and asked a woman named Mary if I was married and had children and was happy-and if you are, are you my real father?" Ramona Koval’s parents were Holocaust survivors who fled their homeland and settled in Melbourne. As a child, Koval learned little about their lives - only snippets from traumatic tales of destruction and escape. But she always suspected that the man who raised her was not her biological father. One day in the 1990s, long after her mother’s death, she decides she must know the truth. A phone call leads to a photograph in the mail, then tea with strangers. Before long Koval is interrogating a nursing-home patient, meeting a horse whisperer in tropical Queensland, journeying to rural Poland, learning other languages and dealing with Kafkaesque bureaucracy, all in the hope of finding an answer.