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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!Joyful strains: making Australia home
By Alice Pung, Ali Lemerm, Catherine Rey, Diane Armstrong, Danny Katz, Arnold Zable, Chris Flynn, Meg Mundell, Mark Dapin, Kent MacCarter, Maria Tumarkin, Paola Totaro, Alison Lemer, Amy Espeseth. 2013
Joyful Strains collects twenty-seven memoirs from writers describing their expatriation to Australia. These are stories about what they found, who…
they became and what they now think of Australia - stories that provide entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians. Contributors include: Alice Pung, Danny Katz, Mark Dapin and Diane Armstrong, with an introduction from Arnold Zable.The closed circle: an interpretation of the Arabs
By David Pryce-Jones. 2009
As the violence of the Middle East has come to America, many Westerners are stunned and confounded by this new…
form of mayhem that appears to be a feature of Arab societies. This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions.The Jesuit guide to (almost) everything: a spirituality for real life
By James Martin. 2010
The Roman Catholic religious order - the Society of Jesus, a.k.a. "The Jesuits" - was founded in the 16th century…
by Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Famous for their practical spirituality and ardent commitment to education, the Jesuits have a reputation as smart people of faith who change lives for the better and make a difference in the world. The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything translates the 500-year-old insights of Saint Ignatius (often called "Ignatian spirituality") for a modern audience, using stories and examples from Martin's 20 years as a Jesuit and from the lives of the great Jesuit saints and spiritual masters.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.Japanese blitz on Darwin: February 19, 1942
By John Thompson-Gray. 2011
New evidence explains Australia’s most infamous day. The Imperial Japanese Navy bombers that attacked Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941…
blitzed Darwin on February 19th 1942. As Australia defended her mainland for the first time the only ally standing with her was the United States of America. On that day, Americans and Australians were forged as cousins-in-arms. Darwin’s airfield, town and harbour were repeatedly bombed leaving a trail of human tragedy. Typical of the many heroes were Wing Commander Archie Tindal RAAF Base, Lieutenant Robert Oestreicher Kittyhawk ace, Jack Mullholland anti-aircraft gunner, Matron Clara Schumack hospital ship and Coxswain John Waldie life-saver. The writer weaves historical facts into story lines with real time action sequences. Where the story varies from historic opinion, forensic reasons are revealed for differing views, and the reader’s judgement is invited. Examples are the role of spies, withholding the air raid warning, attacked hospitals, interpretation of information and subtleties of the Japanese attack plan. Action-thriller 'Japanese blitz on Darwin', by Cambridge Short Story scholar John Thompson-Gray is a story of the first Darwin Defenders and those who bombed and strafed them.Eve and the new Jerusalem: socialism and feminism in the nineteenth century
By Barbara Taylor. 1993
In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and…
struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal property, free love and birth control. In Britain, the visionary ideals of the Utopian Socialist, Robert Owen, attracted thousands of followers, who for more than a quarter of a century attempted to put theory into practice in their own local societies, at rousing public meetings, in trade unions and in their new Communities of Mutual Association. Barbara Taylor's brilliant study of this visionary challenge recovers the crucial connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. In doing so, it opens the way to an important re-interpretation of the socialist tradition as a whole, and contributes to the reforging of some of those early links between feminism and socialism.Living dolls: the return of sexism
By Natasha Walter. 2011
Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women…
an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. While the opportunities available to women may have expanded, the ambitions of many young girls are in reality limited by a culture that sees women's sexual allure as their only passport to success. At the same time we are encouraged to believe that the inequality we observe all around us is born of innate biological differences rather than social factors. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, Natasha Walter, author of the groundbreaking THE NEW FEMINISM and one of Britain's most incisive cultural commentators, gives us a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity, today.Hitler's Stalingrad decisions (International Crisis Behavior Ser. #Vol. 5)
By Geoffrey Jukes. 1985
Fighting the bombers: the Luftwaffe's struggle against the Allied bomber offensive (World War Ii German Debriefs Ser.)
By David C Isby, Josef Kammhuber. 2003
The Great War
By Les Carlyon. 2006
Gives and extrarodinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front, from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview…
of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breath life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago.Hiroshima in America: a half century of denial
By Robert Jay Lifton, Greg Mitchell. 1996
A half century after the bombing of Hiroshima, two distinguished writers look at the impact of the use of the…
A-bomb, and the supression of debate, on American life. Lifton and Mitchell question why Hiroshima still touches such a raw nerve, and explore the distortion and supression of information about the use of the bomb.The borough and its people: Port Melbourne 1839 - 1939
By Margaret Bride, Graham Bride. 2013
Port Melbourne, simply known as The Beach, then Sandridge, in 1884 became the Borough of Port Melbourne. This book focuses…
on how events such as the gold rushes, wars and the fears of war, the foundation of unions for maritime workers, depressions and strikes all affected and helped to shape the lives of people living in the Borough.Stopped at Stalingrad: the Luftwaffe and Hitler's defeat in the east, 1942-1943 (Modern War Studies)
By Hayward, Joel S. A. 1998
By the time Hitler declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941, he knew that his military machine was running…
out of fuel. In response, he launched Operation Blau, a campaign designed to protect Nazi oilfields in Rumania while securing new ones in the Caucasus. All that stood in the way was Stalingrad.Generals die in bed
By Charles Yale Harrison. 2003
Drawing on his own experiences in the First World War, Charles Yale Harrison tells a stark and poignant story of…
a young man sent to fight on the Western Front. It is an unimaginably harrowing journey, especially for one not yet old enough to vote.Our boys at the Front: the Mornington Peninsula at war 1914-18 : from the pages of the Peninsula Post
By Collins, Michael J. S. 2011
"Nearly 700 Mornington Peninsula 'boys' served overseas in The Great War. Letters, diaries and reminiscences they sent from the war…
zones were published in the local newspaper, The Peninsula Post. They provide first-hand accounts from virtually every campaign in which the Australians were engaged. They are full of humour, drama and sometimes tragedy."Hitler's decision to invade Russia, 1941
By 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.Only a wife!: Arnhem Land, 1945-1952
By Guy, Elizabeth J. R. 2005
Experiences of Elizabeth Hooke after her marriage to Elcho Island missionary Harold Guy; mission life at Elcho 1945 -1951; visits…
to Milingimbi and Yirrkala; description of work; teaching reading; coping with health problems such as measles and whooping cough; isolation; building houses and hospital; impressions on return to Elcho in 1980.Mac Tucker, or 'Serge' to use his callsign name, is one of an elite group of men trained to fly…
F-18 jets. Now for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal what it's really like. Find out what it feels to be shot at by SAS snipers, to be lost in a $50 million jet over Northern Australia with nothing but car lights to guide you home, to rupture your sinuses while flying, to inadvertently bomb a yacht and to face death on an almost daily basis. ... From the Pentagon to the South China Sea, the deserts of Australia to the wars of the Middle East, this book is as action-packed as it is entertaining. Sit down and strap yourself in for an exhilarating ride to the sound barrier and beyond with a Mac Tucker, an Australian fighter pilot and real life Top GunBalcony over Jerusalem: a Middle East memoir
By John Lyons, Sylvie Clezio. 2017
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John…
Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem with his wife and eight-year-old son, to the fall of dictators and his gripping account of what it feels like to be taken by Egyptian soldiers, blindfolded and interrogated, this is a memoir of the Middle East like no other. Drawing on a 20-year interest in the Middle East, Lyons has had extraordinary access - he's interviewed everyone from Israel's former Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert to key figures from Hezbollah and Hamas. He's witnessed the brutal Iranian Revolutionary Guard up close and was one of the last foreign journalists in Iran during the violent crackdown against the 'Green Revolution'. He's confronted Hamas officials about why they fire rockets into Israel and Israeli soldiers about why they fire tear gas at Palestinian school children. Lyons also looks at 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank - the mechanics of how this works and the effect it now has on both Israelis and Palestinians. Lyons explains the Middle East through every day life and experiences - his son's school, his wife's friends and his own dealings with a range of people over six years.