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19 produkter
White Mutiny
British Military Culture in India
Inbunden, 1998
1526 kr
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In the White Mutiny of 1859-61--the largest revolt the British army ever faced--European troops operating on behalf of the East India Company rebelled against their transfer to the service of the Queen of England. Through an analysis of the White Mutiny, Peter Stanley provides a portrait of …
Falklands/Malvinas 1982
A War of Two Sides
Av Rob Mclaughlin, Luis Esteban Dalla Fontana m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
696 kr
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After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war. It provides a comprehensive overview of the …
Falklands/Malvinas 1982
A War of Two Sides
Av Rob Mclaughlin, Luis Esteban Dalla Fontana m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
696 kr
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After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war. It provides a comprehensive overview of the …
Falklands/Malvinas 1982
A War of Two Sides
Av María Inés Tato, Peter Stanley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2208 kr
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After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war. It provides a comprehensive overview of the …
Falklands/Malvinas 1982
A War of Two Sides
Av María Inés Tato, Peter Stanley m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
671 kr
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After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war. It provides a comprehensive overview of the …
Lost Boys of Anzac
Häftad, 2014
270 kr
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Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the …
Armenia, Australia and the Great War
Av Vicken Babkenian, Peter Stanley
Häftad, 2016
270 kr
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Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. 24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became …
Charles Bean
Man, Myth, Legacy
Av Peter Stanley, Peter Stanley
Häftad, 2017
321 kr
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Australia’s official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia’s first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was also a public servant, …
Invading Australia: Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942
Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942
E-bok, 2008
299 kr
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1942 was a key year in Australia''s history. As its people had so long feared, White Australia, an outpost of empire, seemed about to be invaded by the Japanese. In that one year, Darwin was bombed, submarines torpedoed ships in Sydney Harbour and Australian Militiamen died on the Kokoda Trail.Each …
Beyond the Broken Years
Australian Military History in 1000 Books
Häftad, 2024
340 kr
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In Beyond The Broken Years – fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage's classic on World War One soldiers, was published – provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it's vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created. By whom, how and with what …
Hul! Hul!
The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855
Inbunden, 2022
553 kr
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If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal 'Hul' (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army's infantry was committed and in which at least …
Hul! Hul!
E-bok, 2022
464 kr
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If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal ‘Hul’ (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion–to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army’s infantry was committed and in which at least …
Black Saturday at Steels Creek
E-bok, 2013
219 kr
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The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people — wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in Australia’s history. Ten of those victims died in Steels Creek, a small community on Melbourne’s outskirts. It was a beautiful place, which its residents had long treasured and loved. By the …
Men of Mont St Quentin
between victory and death
E-bok, 2009
287 kr
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At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five more were wounded, one of whom died six …
Dragoon
First Strike
E-bok, 2023
84 kr
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It finally happened... and the aliens were out for conquest. Amid a worldwide invasion, a secluded part of the world holds its own against the unwelcome intruders. Flight Lieutenant Nathan Harvey, a helicopter pilot from the Royal New Zealand Air Force is recruited into the CAVDEV, an experimental …
For Fear of Pain
British Surgery, 1790-1850
Häftad, 2003
882 kr
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Oh, you hurt me, Sir! … are you going to do it again? – A patient, 1832For Fear of Pain offers a social history of the operating room in Britain during the final decades of painful surgery. It asks profound questions: how could surgeons operate upon conscious patients? How could patients submit? It …
