The Australian Army In World War Ii

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472805225

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The Australian Army in World War II by Mark Johnston Pdf

This book recounts the organization and deployment of one of the most important fighting armies of World War II. Australian divisions made a large and distinctive contribution to victory both in the deserts of the Middle East and the jungles of the South-West Pacific,earning for the second time a unique reputation for aggressiveness, endurance and independence of spirit. The text is illustrated with original wartime photos from all fronts; and with full colour plates showing a wide range of uniforms and gear, together with the complex and colourful Australian system of unit insignia.

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521523230

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At the Front Line by Mark Johnston Pdf

At the Front Line draws on a plethora of letters, diaries and documents written by over 300 Australian soldiers in the field to present a picture of the hardships and triumphs of their wartime experience. Mark Johnston analyses the suffering of front-line soldiers caused not only by the opposing force, but also by the conditions imposed by their own army. The book details the physical and psychological pressures of life at the front and shows how soldiers survived or surrendered to unbearable environments, fear, boredom and the constant threat of impending death. The myths of mateship and equanimity are brought under scrutiny. Much hostility can be explained by competition between ranks and the perceived hostility of superiors. The author investigates the immense strain that led to many breakdowns and the characteristic forebearance that saw so many others through.

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521782228

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Fighting the Enemy by Mark Johnston Pdf

Fighting The Enemy, first published in 2000, 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. Yet few books look in detail at how enemies interpret each other. 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: Germany, Italy, Vichy France and Japan. Each opponent has themes peculiar to it: the Italians were much ridiculed; the Germans were the most respected of enemies; the Vichy French were regarded with ambivalence; while the Japanese were the subject of much hostility, intensified by the real threat of occupation.

Author : John Barrett
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001808631

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We Were There by John Barrett Pdf

Aborigines and army service - Australian women's Army - Burma-Thailand railway - Prisoners of war (POW's).

Author : Robert Fleming
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849086332

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The Australian Army in World War I by Robert Fleming Pdf

The importance of the Australian contribution to the Allied war effort during World War I should never be underestimated. Some 400,000 Australians volunteered for active duty, an astonishing 13 per cent of the entire (white) male population, a number so great that the Australian government was never forced to rely on conscription. Casualties were an astonishing 52 per cent of all those who served, ensuring that the effects of the war would be felt long after the armistice. In particular, their epic endeavour at Gallipoli in 1915 was the nation's founding legend, and the ANZACs went on to distinguish themselves both on the Western Front and in General Allenby's great cavalry campaign against the Turks in the Middle East. Their uniforms and insignia were also significantly different from those of the British Army and provide the basis for a unique set of artwork plates.

Author : Tony Sweeney
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Malaria
ISBN : 0522850332

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Malaria Frontline by Tony Sweeney Pdf

During World War II malaria was one of the most powerful enemies of the Australian troops in the South West Pacific. In 1943 the Australian Army formed a special research team to tackle the problem. This book documents the Australian search for a cure, and the scientific breakthroughs.

Author : Australian Army Staff
Publisher : Merriam Press
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781576380772

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The Australian Army at War by Australian Army Staff Pdf

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1107301815

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Anzacs in the Middle East by Mark Johnston Pdf

Provides an exploration of the experiences of soldiers who fought in the Middle East during World War II.

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1107237637

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Anzacs in the Middle East by Mark Johnston Pdf

Provides an exploration of the experiences of soldiers who fought in the Middle East during World War II.

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472805447

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The Australian Army in World War II by Mark Johnston Pdf

This book recounts the organization and deployment of one of the most important fighting armies of World War II. Australian divisions made a large and distinctive contribution to victory both in the deserts of the Middle East and the jungles of the South-West Pacific,earning for the second time a unique reputation for aggressiveness, endurance and independence of spirit. The text is illustrated with original wartime photos from all fronts; and with full colour plates showing a wide range of uniforms and gear, together with the complex and colourful Australian system of unit insignia.

Author : Garth Pratten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107276321

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Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War by Garth Pratten Pdf

In Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, Garth Pratten explores, for the first time, the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry battalions in World War II. Despite their vital role as the lynchpins of the battlefield, uniting the senior officers with the soldiers who fought, the battalion commanders have previously received scant attention in contemporary military history. This book redresses the balance, providing a gripping, meticulously researched and insightful account that charts the development of Australia's infantry commanding officers from part-time, ill-prepared, amateurs to seasoned veterans who, although still not professional soldiers, deserved the title of professional men of war. Drawing on extensive and original archival material, Pratten recreates battle scenes and brings to light many diverse personalities. It is a story of men confronting the timeless challenges of military leadership – mastering their own fear and discomfort - in order to motivate and inspire their troops to endure the maelstrom of war.

Author : Michael McKernan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Australia
ISBN : 176006369X

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Australians at Home by Michael McKernan Pdf

The best-selling Australians at Home were the first books to study the Australian home front, during World War I and II, in depth and detail, putting the lives, sufferings and grief of Australian women and children in the forefront of the war experience. Perfectly pitched, they reach the classic general reader, whilst breaking new ground in the writing of Australian military and social history.

Author : Samuel Milner
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515027821

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Victory in Papua by Samuel Milner Pdf

This is a companion volume to the one on Guadalcanal in the series on the war in the Pacific. Both record the operations designed to halt the advance of the enemy toward the vital transpacific line of communications with Australia and secure Australia as a base. Success in Papua and Guadalcanal, achieved in February 1943, put the Allied forces in a position to neutralize Rabaul and, this accomplished, to advance to the Philippines. The present volume concentrates on the action of one United States Army division. In telling the story of a comparatively limited number of troops, the author has been able to present the combat experience of small units in sharper focus than has been possible in most of the other full-scale campaign volumes. The campaign abounds in lessons. Of these one of the most vital is the frequent necessity for all commanders to evaluate their own actions by asking themselves this question: "How could I have helped, how should I have helped, how can I help my subordinates to accomplish their assigned tasks?"

Author : Robert Loeffel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137506672

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The Fifth Column in World War II by Robert Loeffel Pdf

Alarming levels of fear and suspicion developed in Australia following the German victories in Europe of 1940. It was believed the Nazis had prepared an army of subversives a Fifth Column to undermine the war effort. These suspicions plagued the Australian home front for much of the war.

Author : Jennifer Anne Gregory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015022885126

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On the Homefront by Jennifer Anne Gregory Pdf

For Western Australians, World War II began as a 'phoney war', remote from their shores, but by 1942 the homefront faced the real threat of invasion, with the Japanese at the doorstep.