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Barefoot reporter: the best of the Richard Hughes columns from the Far Eastern Economic Review 1971-83
By Richard Hughes, Mike MacLachlan. 1984
The life of Richard Hughes spanned nearly eight decades, most of them spent as one of Asia's leading foreign correspondents.…
The hilarious, the touching, the macabre: Hughes reported it all in his regular column in "the Far Eastern Economic Review.".Memoirs of Tilly Aston: Australia's blind poet, author and philanthropist
By Matilda Ann Aston. 1993
An autobiography of the Australian poet, author and philanthropist who was blind by the age of seven. She describes her…
work for the blind, and her difficulties in gaining acceptance as a blind teacher. She also writes of her literary work and relates her experience as an Esperantist.With Paulus at Stalingrad
By Tony Le Tissier, Wilhelm Adam, Otto Ru¨hle. 2015
Colonel Wilhelm Adam, senior ADC to General Paulus, commander of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, wrote a compelling and…
controversial memoir describing the German defeat, his time as a prisoner of war with Paulus, and his conversion to communism. Now, for the first time, his German text has been translated into English.Hitler's greatest defeat: disaster on the eastern front
By Paul Adair. 2012
The book gives some background to the campaign as well as the aftermath. Destruction of the German Army Group Center…
remains Third Reich's greatest military defeat of the war but yet, ironically, its not well known in the United States. The Germans lost over 350,000 men during this one month period while the Russian losses numbered over 750,000 men. But the campaign ensured that the German military have forever lost any chances of victory and the forward advances of the Soviet forces all the way to Berlin have been assured. Second half of 1944 was a bad year for the German military!Sheeds: a touch of cunning
By Tom Prior. 1995
The Battle of the Bulge, the German view: perspectives from Hitler's High Command
By Danny S Parker. 1999
This text examines preparations for the offensive, the progress of the operation and assessments of the Wehrmacht's performance from leading…
figures in German high command, including a transcription of Hitler's key speech on December 12th, 1944.The Pearl Harbor myth: rethinking the unthinkable (Military Controversies Ser.)
By George Victor. 2007
Did U.S. intelligence know of Japan's coming attack on Pearl Harbor? Did President Roosevelt know? If so, why did he…
withhold warnings from the commanders in Hawaii? The answers are embedded in the cogent analysis of The Pearl Harbor Myth. Based on voluminous data that does not appear in other books on the topic, it discusses in detail Roosevelt's developing strategy-both military and diplomatic-and his secret alliances to save the world from Hitler. It contains a wealth of fresh material on secret diplomacy; on secret military strategy, planning, and intelligence; and on disguised combat operations that began six months before the Pearl Harbor attack.Jihadi John: the making of a terrorist
By Robert Verkaik. 2016
The only journalist to interview 'Jihadi John' reveals how Mohammed Emwazi went from London teenager to world's most wanted terrorist.…
When Islamic State's black-masked executioner, 'Jihadi John', was revealed to be Mohammed Emwazi, a 26-year-old IT graduate from west London, senior security editor Robert Verkaik was shaken more than most. In 2010 he'd interviewed this man. At the time Emwazi had claimed MI5 were ruining his life. He was desperate for his story to be told, believing that going public might force the security services to leave him alone. Verkaik's investigation into the making of 'Jihadi John' leads him to the disturbing questions that Emwazi left behind. What led him, and many other young Muslim men, to come to Verkaik for help in the first place? And why do hundreds of other Britons wish to join Islamic State? Frightening, thought provoking and urgent, Jihadi John assesses the threat IS poses to the UK and examines how the actions of our security services might help create the same enemy we're trying to defeat.In search of the miraculous: fragments of an unknown teaching
By P. D Uspenskii. 2001
Lucky child: a daughter of Cambodia reunites with the sister she left behind
By Loung Ung. 2006
"After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten year old Loung…
Ung became the "lucky child", the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds."Baby Benjamin's impressions
By Susan Oxenham. 2015
The road to war
By Andrew Wheatcroft, R. J Overy. 1989
Without resort to hindsight, this study looks at why the world's greatest powers were at war 60 years ago. It…
aims to recapture the concerns, anxieties and prejudices of the statesmen of the 30s and the people they led.The Battle of Britain
By R. J Overy. 2004
The extraordinary struggle between British and German air forces in 1940 was one of the pivotal events of the Second…
World War. How close did Britain really come to invasion during this time? What were Hitler and Churchill's motives? And what was the battle's real effect on the outcome of the war?Ian Clunies Ross: a biography
By Marjory O'Dea. 1997
Ian Clunies Ross was an Australian scientist and founder of the CSIRO, the man Sir Robert Menzies claimed was the…
greatest PR man that Australian science ever had. Langridge's biography celebrates his achievements and character.Remembering Anita Cobby: the case, the husband, the aftermath - 30 years on
By Mark Morri. 2016
John Cobby finally tells his story, 30 years after the murder of his wife, Anita. On 4 February 1986, John…
Cobby's life imploded. He was driving up the coast looking for his missing wife, Anita, when over the radio he heard: 'The body of a naked woman has been found in a paddock in western Sydney.' . . . As details emerged of the rape and murder of the gentle nurse and former beauty queen, outrage engulfed Australia. Five men were caught and, amid unprecedented security, jailed for life. For young reporter Mark Morri, the case was a baptism of fire. Told to 'find the husband', he despaired: Cobby had changed his name and disappeared. But the Daily Mirror found him, and Morri's interviews sold like hotcakes. For nearly 30 years, Morri and Cobby kept in touch. In this book John finally opens up, recounting how he and Anita fell in love, suffered the pain of miscarriage and then went travelling. He also explains why they were apart at the time of the murder. Weaving in chilling material from the autopsy and police files, and interviews with detectives who hunted down the killers, Mark Morri explores the ripple effects of the murder that still shocks a nation.The Awful disclosures
By Maria Monk. 2007
I cannot banish the scenes and characters of this book from my memory. To me it can never appear like…
an amusing fable, or lose its interest and importance. The story is one which is continually before me, and must return fresh to my mind with painful emotions as long as I live. With time, and Christian instruction, and the sympathy and examples of the wise and good, I hope to learn submissively to bear whatever trials are appointed for me, and to improve under them all.Hitler's war: Germany's key strategic decisions, 1940-1945 (Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.)
By Heinz Magenheimer. 2002
This is a closely argued and wide-ranging assessment of just how, with so many alternatives open, the German High Command…
chose the path that led, ultimately, to its own destruction. Heinz Magenheimer examines in detail the options that were open to the Germans as the war progressed. He identifies the crucial moments at which fateful decisions needed to be taken and considers how decisions different from those actually taken could have propelled the conflict in entirely different directions. Using the very latest source material, in particular new research from Soviet/Russian sources, the author analyses motives and objectives and considers the opportunities taken or rejected, concentrating especially on specific phases of the conflict.Sex worker, fashion designer, anti-censorship activist, fierce campaigner, political lobbyist and Member of Parliament - Fiona Patten's life has been…
nothing if not eventful. From her early days as an AIDS-HIV educator and activist and CEO of Australia's national adult goods and services lobby group, the Eros Association, Fiona has always fought hard for what she believed in. But all too often, she has come face to face with apathy and deeply-roooted conservatism. Frustrated and deeply disappointed by the lack of social change and progress around censorship, drug law reform, euthanasia and same-sex marriage, Fiona set up and registered the Australian Sex Party in 2009. The Sex Party led with a strong focus on civil libertarian and personal freedom issues, and Fiona became the first Leader of a political party to call for a Royal Commission into child sex abuse in religious institutions. In 2014, Fiona contested and won an upper house seat representing the Northern Metropolitan Region in Victoria. Since her election, Fiona has successfully instigated landmark parliamentary inquiries and legislation, including Australia's largest public inquiry into drug law reform, voluntary assisted dying laws, the legalisation of ridesharing, safe access zones for abortion clinics and the introduction of a bill for a medically supervised injecting centre. In August 2017, the Australian Sex Party was dissolved to make way for Reason, a movement of radical common sense. Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll is the entertaining and inspiring story of how one woman used her own radical common sense to speak truth to power and fight for change.Why Germany nearly won: a new history of the Second World War in Europe
By Steven D Mercatante. 2013
Conventional wisdom explains German defeat during World War II as almost inevitable, primarily for reasons of Allied economic or military…
brute force created when Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941 and entered into a two-front war.