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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Australian War Memorial
ISBN : IOWA:31858027828189
Author : Gavin Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,9 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golden opportunity of marching on to Tripoli and securing great strategical gains is examined in the light of hitherto unpublished documents from both the Allied and the Axis side.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 : Sir Paul Hasluck,Sydney James Butlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010482498
Author : Gavin Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:213581781
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : LCCN:54001733
Author : Justin Chadwick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925520316
Sword and Baton is a collection of 86 biographies representing every Australian Army officer to reach the rank of major general from Federation to the outbreak of World War II. This is the first of two volumes, and its scope is broad, including chaplains-general, surgeons-general and British Army officers who served with the AIF or the permanent forces. Author Justin Chadwick portrayal of these officers careers provides a lens through which he examines trends such as the development of military skills which ensured that, by the commencement of hostilities in 1914, Australia boasted a pool of well-trained, albeit inexperienced officers. The effects of command under pressure of war and the enormous physical impact of combat are likewise portrayed in these comprehensive biographies. By the end of hostilities Australian officers had garnered immense experience and were among the best in the Allied forces. Ironically, this hard-won skill base was to be all but lost in the interwar period. Sword and Baton offers its readers more than a series of biographies. Rather, it describes a crucial period in Australian military history through the lives of the extraordinary men at its head.
Author : Jan McLeod
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925675917
At Templeton’s Crossing in October 1942, Private Nick Kennedy paused to write in his diary: ‘One wonders why all this strife should be … these men in the prime of their life cut down like flowers’. As a young nursing orderly serving with the 2/4th Australian Field Ambulance, Kennedy was unenviably well-placed to reflect on the futility of war. The Australian Army was woefully unprepared to fight a medical war in Papua and the soldiers paid the price. Almost 30,000 soldiers suffered from illness and tropical diseases, and an estimated 6000 were killed or wounded during the six-month campaign. These statistics have traditionally been represented as unavoidable consequences of fighting a war in a place such as Papua. This book disputes that narrative. Death and disease were inevitable outcomes, but the scale of the suffering was not. The medical challenges presented in Papua were extreme – they were not insurmountable. Shadows on the Track considers a wide range of issues that impacted on the health of the Australian soldiers before, during and after the Papuan campaign was fought and won. The strengths, successes, shortcomings and failures of the medical campaign are identified, analysed and evaluated. The focus on the front-line medical personnel – the men of the field ambulance units – brings a new perspective to the battles of the Kokoda Track, Milne Bay and the Beachheads. Shining a light on these Australians who tended the sick, mended the wounded and buried the dead in Papua makes stepping out of the shadows a little easier.
Author : Lionel Wigmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1783310049
This volume of the army series of the Australian official war history relates mainly to the operations on Malaya in the first ten weeks of the war against Japan. It has, however, an introductory section describing, from an Australian point of view and largely from Australian documents, the steps which led to commencement of war by Japan, and the measures taken to meet the danger.A comprehensive account is given of the Japanese plan of conquest and its execution, step by step, over the vast area it covered; also of the reactions of the Allied Governments and the endeavours of each of the forces which sought to stem the onslaught.The volume describes, for the first time in detail, the experiences of the small garrisons that were overrun in New Britain, Ambon and Dutch Timor; and the discussions between London, Washington and Canberra which led up to the refusal of the Australian Government in February 1942 to permit its troops to be sent to Burma.In a final section the experiences of the widely-scattered groups of prisoners of the Japanese from 1942 to 1945 are described.
Author : Michael Dorosh
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780978492502
Scenario Designer's Handbook (ISBN 978-0-9782646-8-0) is intended as a reference for those interested in designing historical scenarios for the Advanced Squad Leader game system. The book features 240 full-colour pages with a variety of information to assist in force and terrain selection, including company, battalion and divisional break-downs of the major armies that participated in the Second World War. Additional chapters deal with scenario lay-out, publishing, researching, walk-throughs of the design process and discussion regarding the various components of ASL scenarios. The 2nd Edition includes an improved layout, additional information on various forces (Chinese, Finns, etc.) and revised appendices with updated map and overlay listing. Note the "discount" price on Lulu is the actual list price - this will not change.
Author : John Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89012002796
Between the wars - Mediterranean campaign - Japanese threat - Malaya - New Guinea - Australia's role in the war - Australian armed services casualties.
Author : Karl James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107017320
The first major study since 1963 to examine the historic Australian military campaign of 1944-1945 at Bougainville in the South Pacific.
Author : Barton Maughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1783310065
This volume's main theme is the 9th Australian Division's contribution in 1941-42 to the defeat in North Africa of the German and Italian Army commanded by Field Marshal Rommel.In March 1941, soon after its formation, the division was sent untrained and without its artillery to Cyrenaica as part of a garrison force which, within a few weeks, took the brunt of a surprise advance by Rommel's newly-arrived armoured force. Retreaing to Tobruk the division withstood, with the support of British armoured, artillery and machine-gun units, several assaults and a long siege, and maintained a threat on the flank of Rommel's long line of communications to the Egyptian frontier.Before the siege ended the division was withdrawn by sea but in the succeeding year it was recalled to the front as Rommel's forces were approaching the El Alamein defences, only 70 miles from Alexandria. In General Auchinleck's counter-offensive in July 1942 it captured the Tel el Eisa ridges and other important positions near the coast and later under General Montgomery took a leading part in Rommel's defeat in the battle of El Alamein.As well as recording the exploits of Australian soldiers, the book examines the actions of the generals who successively commanded the Middle East Forces and the Eighth Army - Wavell, Auchinleck, Cunningham, Ritchie, Alexander and Montgomery. The inter-governmental differences concerning the 9th Division's withdrawal from Tobruk and its later return to Australia are also related.An appendix recounts the experiences of Australian prisoners of war in Europe.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 197?
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:223760715
Author : G Herman Gill
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474536417
This volume tells the story of Australian Navy policy between the wars and records the part played by the ships and men of that Navy on every ocean from 1939 until the end of the first quarter of 1942.
