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Author : BOB. DAGG MARMION (ANDREW.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527575683
Author : Bob Marmion,Andrew Dagg
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527575707
This is a case study of possibly the most complex defensive system in Australia between 1803 and 1945. Defending Victoria was such a wide ranging and demanding task that the colony, and later the state, of Victoria was known as the Gibraltar of the South. This book fills a major gap in Australian military and naval history. Using Victoria as a case study, the book shows how defence developed from the idea of a basic sand fort emanating from a fear of French invasion during the early 19th century, into a complex, modern three-dimensional defensive system incorporating air, land and sea defences as well as radar and secret defence technology by the 1940s. The book is not a simple narration of facts and events, but a substantial addition to Australian military history, on account of its extensive analysis of the political, social, economic and technological factors which impacted defence over many decades of the 19th century.
Author : Ian MacFarlane,Neil C. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Taranaki Region (N.Z.)
ISBN : 1876179503
Author : Jeffrey Grey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139468282
A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service on Australia and Australians. It discusses the development of the armed forces as institutions and examines the relationship between governments and military policy. This book is a revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. It is the only comprehensive, single-volume treatment of the role and development of Australia's military and their involvement in war and peace across the span of Australia's modern history. It concludes with consideration of Australian involvement in its region and more widely since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the waging of the global war on terror.
Author : Allan Box
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Victoria
ISBN : 0646235192
Author : Neil Leckie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Victoria
ISBN : 0980475368
Author : Gavin Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1783310014
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.
Author : Ian F W Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317322177
The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during the Victorian period.
Author : Richard S. Hill
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780864736741
A groundbreaking collection of essays by leading academics and intellectuals, this record examines the confiscation of Maori land in 19th-century New Zealand and the broader imperial context. Based on a 2008 conference entitled Coming to Terms? Raupatu/Confiscation and New Zealand History, this study examines topics associated with land confiscation, such as war, European settlements, colonialism, property rights, and politics. Contributors include Michael Allen, James Belich, Judith Binney, Alex Frame, Bryan Gilling, Mark Hickford, Vincent O'Malley, Dion Tuuta, Alan Ward, and John C. Weaver.
Author : Peter Dennis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0195517849
War has been one of the defining forces in Australian history. Participation in war, whether in the armed forces or on the home front, or in opposition to a particular war, has shaped the lives of successive generations of Australians. The Department of Defence remains one of the largest single consumers of the annual federal budget, and Anzac Day continues to hold a special place in the Australian calendar.This major new edition of the Companion builds on the strength of the previous edition. It provides learned, accessible and up-to-date studies of Australia's varied and colourful military matters - both past and present - by Australia's foremost military scholars.The Companion is the most comprehensive guide to Australia's military history, ranging from the colonial period to the 21st century. It is also supplemented by more than 30 specially commissioned maps. The Companion is highly readable and user-friendly - arranged in a handy A-Z format, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and indexed to permit easy access to all the information. The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History is the indispensable and vital reference for anyone with an interest in Australian military history.
Author : Bob Marmion
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781925520125
Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was found on the side of the road. He had been shot a number of times with a military revolver. Despite extensive enquiries by some of the Victoria Police’s most experienced homicide detectives, the murderer was not found. Then three months later, the killer struck again. In September 1942 Gunner John Hulston went missing whilst on guard duty. His gun crew immediately began a search. Two soldiers followed what appeared to be drag marks from the gate down towards the beach. They saw a figure some way off and thinking it was Hulston, they called out to him. Instead of a friendly reply, they were met with a barrage of bullets. The figure ran off and disappeared towards the camp. Incredibly the garrison was not turned out to search for the missing man or the mysterious figure. The searchlights which could have turned the night into day along the beach, were not activated. Hulston’s rifle and bayonet were found in the water. His torn trousers were also found on the beach. His body was eventually recovered further along the coastline, 10 days later. Like Driver Willis, back in May, he had also been shot in the chest with a .455 calibre army revolver. As with any good murder mystery, this story has more twists and turns than the Great Ocean Road. They range from black market operations, confessions, suspects identified in later years, lost or missing police files, disagreements between the police and the army over the investigation, and an attempted cover-up that went all the way to the wartime Deputy Prime Minister’s office.
Author : Craig Stockings,John Connor
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742241616
This book provides a comprehensive and compelling account of Australian military history before any soldier set foot on Gallipoli. It shows that this pre-1915 history has largely been forgotten. Indeed the extent to which Australians thought about war and experienced war before ANZAC existed will surprise many readers.Starting with detailed accounts of both traditional indigenous warfare and frontier wars between whites settlers and indigenous inhabitants, we learn of the setting up of colonial navies, the red coats who guarded the colonies, Australians fighting in wars against New Zealand Maori, cadet and rifle clubs as well as the overseas wars we joined up for in the Crimea and Sudan. Written by leading experts in their fields and expertly edited by Craig Stockings and John Connor, Before the Anzac Dawn is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the whole story of Australia’s military history.
Author : Gavin Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1783310057
This volume, the first of seven in the army series of the official history of Australia in the war of 1939-45, carries the story of the Second AIF up to the end of the operations in Cyrenaica in the first quarter of 1941. It tells briefly the story of the Australian Army from 1919 to 1939 and describes the raising of an expeditionary force for service in Hitler's war. It discusses some of the problems encountered by the commanders of that force in the Middle East in 1940 - often problems of enduring interest in that they have been met and will be met again by other leaders of the forces of minor partners in a coalition war. The defeat of the Italian army in Cyrenaica by the 7th Armoured and 6th Australian Divisions is narrated in a degree of detail made possible by reliance not only on contemporary reports and war diaries but on private papers and interviews and correspondence with a large number of participants. Finally the question whether the British political leaders in February 1941 missed a golden opportunity of marching on to Tripoli and securing great strategical gains is examined in the light of hitherto unpublished documents from both the Allied and the Axis side.
Author : Bruce T. Swain
Publisher : Unwin Hyman
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1865083526
Australians fought in every theatre of war in World War II. So high was their involvement that by 1943 more than 15 per cent of Australia's population was serving in the armed forces. In this day-by-day record, we see how the war escalated and how the commitment of Australian forces increased. All the land battles in which Australian troops took part are covered, from the Libyan campaign in 1940-41 to Balikpapanin in 1945. The wide-ranging operations of the Royal Australian Navy in every theatre of maritime conflict are detailed - in the Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and the North, Mediterranean, Aegean, Caribbean and Red Seas.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925675149
