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Book, Kevin Fewster, Gallipoli correspondent: The frontline diary of C.E.W. Bean, 1983
For the first time, we can read the innermost thoughts, hopes and criticisms of the man who, more than any other, shaped the ANZAC legend.Index, bibliography, notes, ill, maps, p.217.non-fictionFor the first time, we can read the innermost thoughts, hopes and criticisms of the man who, more than any other, shaped the ANZAC legend. world war 1914-1918 - campaigns - gallipoli, gallipoli campaign - war correspondents -
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Book, Allen & Unwin, Four thousand bowls of rice : a prisoner of war comes home, 1993
Over 60,000 Australians and Americans captured by the Japanese during World War II toiled and died to build the Bridge over the River Kwai. Respected military historian Linda Goetz Holmes tells the story of one man's survival in Japanese labor camps during WWII. Amazing photographs, taken secretly by other prisoners, chronicle this dark history of Allied troops in the Pacific theatre of war.Index, bibliography, notes, ill, p.179.non-fictionOver 60,000 Australians and Americans captured by the Japanese during World War II toiled and died to build the Bridge over the River Kwai. Respected military historian Linda Goetz Holmes tells the story of one man's survival in Japanese labor camps during WWII. Amazing photographs, taken secretly by other prisoners, chronicle this dark history of Allied troops in the Pacific theatre of war.world war 1939 – 1945 - prisons and prisoners – australia, burma thailand railway -
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Book, Sphere, A man called Intrepid, 1976
This book tells for the first time one of the best kept secrets of World War Two. British Security Co-ordination made a major contribution to the eventual allied victory.Index, ill, maps, p.541.non-fictionThis book tells for the first time one of the best kept secrets of World War Two. British Security Co-ordination made a major contribution to the eventual allied victory.world war 1939 – 1945 – secret operations – britain, secret service - britain -
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Book, Faber and Faber, Churchill's bomb : a hidden history of science, war and politics, 2013
A brilliant insight into Britain's atomic scientists during the war from the Costa Award-winning author of The Strangest Man .Index, notes, references, ill, p.554.A brilliant insight into Britain's atomic scientists during the war from the Costa Award-winning author of The Strangest Man .world war 1939 – 1945 – science – britain, atomic bomb - great britain -
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Book, Hodder & Stoughton, The Churchill factor : how one man made history, 2015
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays - with characteristic wit and passion-a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breath-taking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the King to stay out of action on D-Day; he pioneered aerial bombing, yet hated the destruction of war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. He was a celebrated journalist, a great orator and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was famous for his ability to combine wining and dining with many late nights of crucial wartime decision-making. His open-mindedness made him a pioneer in health care, education, and social welfare, though he remained incorrigibly politically incorrect. Most of all, as Boris Johnson says, 'Churchill is the resounding human rebuttal to all who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces'. THE CHURCHILL FACTOR is a book to be enjoyed not only by anyone interested in history: it is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what makes a great leader.Index, notes, bibliography, ill, p.421.non-fictionMarking the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays - with characteristic wit and passion-a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breath-taking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the King to stay out of action on D-Day; he pioneered aerial bombing, yet hated the destruction of war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. He was a celebrated journalist, a great orator and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was famous for his ability to combine wining and dining with many late nights of crucial wartime decision-making. His open-mindedness made him a pioneer in health care, education, and social welfare, though he remained incorrigibly politically incorrect. Most of all, as Boris Johnson says, 'Churchill is the resounding human rebuttal to all who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces'. THE CHURCHILL FACTOR is a book to be enjoyed not only by anyone interested in history: it is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what makes a great leader.great britain - politics and government - 1936-1945, winston churchill - biography -
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Book, Coronet Books, The murder of Rudolf Hess, 1980
Was the man in Spandau prison Rudolf Hess? This book unravels the mysteryIndex, bibliography, notes, ill, p.224.non-fictionWas the man in Spandau prison Rudolf Hess? This book unravels the mysteryhess rudolf - 1894-1987, conspiracy theories -
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Book, Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 1981
Memoirs of the man who was appointed as the head architect and minister of armaments and war production for the Nazi government.Index, notes, ill, p.699.non-fictionMemoirs of the man who was appointed as the head architect and minister of armaments and war production for the Nazi government.germany - politics and government - 1933-1945, albert speer - autobiography -
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Book, Allen and Unwin, In good company : one man's war in Vietnam, 1998
This is Gary McKay's story of how he was conscripted into the Australian army and his experiences in the Vietnam War. It is an action-packed, very readable account of an Australian soldier's war experience in Vietnam, developing strongly the Australian soldiers' great sense of mateshipIll, map, p.192.non-fictionThis is Gary McKay's story of how he was conscripted into the Australian army and his experiences in the Vietnam War. It is an action-packed, very readable account of an Australian soldier's war experience in Vietnam, developing strongly the Australian soldiers' great sense of mateshipvietnam war 1961-1975 – australian involvement, vietnam war 1961-1975 – personal recollections – australia -
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Book, Latrobe University et al, Australia's Vietnam war in history and memory, 2002
Vietnam War - Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War - Conscription - Protests against involvement in Vietnam WarIll, maps. p.120.non-fictionVietnam War - Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War - Conscription - Protests against involvement in Vietnam Warvietnam war - 1961-1975, vietnam war - 1961-1975 - politics and government - australia -
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Book, Fairfax Library in association with Daniel O'Keefe, Hurley at war : the photography and diaries of Frank Hurley in two world wars, 1986
Hurley at war provides an illuminating record of one mans experience in two world warsIll, p.160.non-fictionHurley at war provides an illuminating record of one mans experience in two world warswar photographers - australia, frank hurley - war diaries -
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Book, Text Publishing, The Middle Parts Of Fortune, 2012
Hailed by Eliot, Pound, Lawrence and Hemingway, and based on the author's own experiences, The Middle Parts of Fortune is a breathtaking account of the Great War and the men who fought it.p.301.fictionHailed by Eliot, Pound, Lawrence and Hemingway, and based on the author's own experiences, The Middle Parts of Fortune is a breathtaking account of the Great War and the men who fought it.world war 1914-1918 - fiction, great war -fiction -
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Book, Exeter Books, A history of marksmanship, 1972
An illustrated survey of man's use of missile weapons since the Stone Age.Ill, p.319.non-fictionAn illustrated survey of man's use of missile weapons since the Stone Age. firearms - history, shooting - history -
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Book, Ballantine Books, Berlin Blockade, 1972
The Berlin blockade by Soviet forces in 1948-1949 and its subsequent breakingIll, p.159.non-fictionThe Berlin blockade by Soviet forces in 1948-1949 and its subsequent breakingcold war, berlin airlift -
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Book, Harper Press, Shots from the front : the British soldier 1914-18, 2008
Leading military historian Richard Holmes has selected over 200 rare and unusual photographs to illustrate the wide range of the British Army's experience in the First World War - on all fronts, from Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Gallipoli to the Flanders trenches." "The book's topics include the preparations for war and the mobilisation of 1914; the 'roses of no-man's land' - the contribution made by nurses; 'blighty ones and other ones' - the wounded and their treatment; 'brother lead and sister steel' - soldiers and their weapons; scenes from the battlefield and the campaigns where Tommies fought; the armistice and its aftermath.Ill, p.240.non-fictionLeading military historian Richard Holmes has selected over 200 rare and unusual photographs to illustrate the wide range of the British Army's experience in the First World War - on all fronts, from Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Gallipoli to the Flanders trenches." "The book's topics include the preparations for war and the mobilisation of 1914; the 'roses of no-man's land' - the contribution made by nurses; 'blighty ones and other ones' - the wounded and their treatment; 'brother lead and sister steel' - soldiers and their weapons; scenes from the battlefield and the campaigns where Tommies fought; the armistice and its aftermath.world war 1914 -1918 - pictorial works, great britain - army - military life -
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Book, Marshall Cavendish Editions, Rainforest tears : a Borneo story, 2008
Set in the heart of Borneo's millennial magnificence, a rolling adventure unfolds from Churchill's War Cabinet Rooms to Japan's Imperial Palace as brutality rains down on a guileless people whose hopes for freedom come to focus on a man who fights to save them, his oilfields and the woman he loves.Ill, maps, p.556.fictionSet in the heart of Borneo's millennial magnificence, a rolling adventure unfolds from Churchill's War Cabinet Rooms to Japan's Imperial Palace as brutality rains down on a guileless people whose hopes for freedom come to focus on a man who fights to save them, his oilfields and the woman he loves.world war 1939-1945 - fiction, borneo - fiction -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - OLIVE PELL COLLECTION: GROUP PHOTO OF MEN
Photograph, on cream photo paper with picture within an oval shape of the name James Buick & Co Bee Hive Stores Building sign written across the verandah. The building has an ornate roof with six decorative finials in the shape of urn's along a balustrade. In the center is a triangle with a coat of arms. Lace work runs along the rood line. There are eighteen curved windows three have advertising for the Bee Hive Billiard Saloon, left to right one for H. Birch Legal Manager and General acent? and Globe Insurance Company. The fifth one is C. W. Belt Legal Manager General Accountant. the last on the right reads Denson?. One Man is standing on the verandah next to the Saloon window. There are 60+ men in the photo all wearing hats, one girl and two dogs some standing on the road and others standing on the foot path. Three pin hole on the top of the photo.buildings, commercial, beehive stores, james buick & co bee-hive stores, bee-hive billard saloon. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - LONG GULLY HISTORY GROUP COLLECTION: INSTALLATION OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS EAGLEHAWK RD/CREETH ST
Copy of a newspaper article titled three-year battle to get lights printed on yellow paper. Date written at the top is September 19 - 1984.Photo shows Eaglehawk Rd with a man crossing the street and a car going past. A tractor is on the corner. The accompanying article mentions that residents have been campaigning to get the lights for over three years.bendigo, history, long gully history group, the long gully history group - installation of traffic lights eaglehawk rd/creeth st, long gully primary school, the road construction authority, ted coleman, bendigo city council, rite-way -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Postcard - BASIL WATSON COLLECTION: CLARENCE ST KINGSTON 219
black and white postcard, image shows streetscape, buildings with awnings, tramway on side of road. Written on bottom 'Clarence St Kingston 219' . Woman in long dress in distance, man in foreground.place, streetscape, clarence street, kingston, uk -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BENDIGO HOTEL COLLECTION: MANCHESTER ARMS HOTEL, EAGLEHAWK ROAD, LONG GULLY
Colour photograph: Manchester Arms Hotel, Eaglehawk Road,Long Gully. Single storey building, white painted with 5 posts brown verandah at the front. On side wall "Des and Dave Manchester Arms Hotel" and underneath Carlton Draught. A blue car is parked at the front and there is a man working on the roof.bendigo, hotel, manchester arms -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LONG GULLY HISTORY GROUP COLLECTION: FRENCH'S CORNER AND VILLAGE PARLIAMENTS
Copy of pages 3 and 4 titled French's Corner and Village Parliaments. Some passengers travelling on the tram would ask to be put down at French's corner. The conductor had no idea where it was. The passenger would be returning to where he used to live or work. The old who met at the pub corner were mostly teetotallers, but they met at the pub where the publican provided the two forms of seats for them and if business was slack he would join in the discussion. Another group met at Uncle Tom Foss' shop further down the road. This group was made up of old men over 80 and they met inside the shoemaker's shop. One old man used to go to his granddaughter's house and sit beside the kitchen fire and then he would tell her he had a pain beneath his ribs and she would give him a little wine to drink. Then he lost the last of his cronies and he went slowly up the hill and told his granddaughter he had nobody left but his old stick. The pain of being left without contemporaries made him forget about the pain in his side. There was another group that met at Philpot's smithy. The men would talk and argue while the smith was shoeing the horses. This smith has a long finger- nail on his left hand which he would use to pick up horse shoe nails as he was shoeing the horse. The bottom of the page has a photo of the main street of Long Gully taken from the Blacksmiths Shop.bendigo, history, long gully history group, the long gully history group - french's corner and village parliaments, manchester arms, french's hotel, mr french, uncle tom foss' shop, philpot's smithy, a crossley -
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Photograph - HARRY BIGGS COLLECTION: NO. 26 TRAM
Photograph of No. 26 Tram beside the log lock up in Sailors Gully Road, Eaglehawk (Bendigo). The destination board reads Eaglehawk and this is also on a large sign on top of the tram. There is a man with his foot on the boarding step and another three men standing beside the tramorganization, public utility, bendigo tramways., no. 26 tram, eaglehawk -
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Photograph - ALL SAINTS CHURCH / ST KILLIAN'S CHURCH
Black and White Photos taken from the 'Album of Sandhurst Views', Published by Mossrs Schutz & Co, Melbourne, All Saint's Church. Three people standing on road. Sandhurst, Roman Catholic St Killian's Church. man with horse and cart passing on the road. Four people on footpath. One on road near cart.organization, church, bendigo churches, all saints church, st killian's church, churches, sandhurst churches -
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Book, Simon & Schuster, An ordinary soldier : Afghanistan: a ferocious enemy, a bloody conflict, one man's impossible mission, 2008
An outstandingly written, first-person account of a decorated British soldier's experience of fighting Taliban forces in Afghanistan.Index, ill, maps, p.305.non-fictionAn outstandingly written, first-person account of a decorated British soldier's experience of fighting Taliban forces in Afghanistan.afghan war 2001-2021 - military operations - britain, afghan war 2001-2021 - personal narratives - britain -
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Book, Hesperian Press, Borneo surgeon : a reluctant hero : the life and times of Dr. James Patrick Taylor, OBE, MB, CH.M, 1995
Peter Firkins has produced a heroic figure comparable in courage and selflessness to that of the legendary 'Weary' Dunlop, and whose story should be known by all Australians in the same way. What a wonderful epitaph to a man born into a humble Yass family at the end of the nineteenth century who, by his own determination and intellect, won a scholarship for his secondary education at St Patrick's College, Goulburn and an Exhibition to study medicine at Sydney University. Almost by pure chance he pursued his medical career in an outpost of the British Empire then known as British North Borneo to become Principal Medical Officer at the time of the Japanese occupation during World War II. The Japanese allowed the civilian medical staff to remain at their posts with the status of 'simple confinement' while at the same time the bewildered local people looked to someone for leadership in their new and unaccustomed circumstances.Aided by his wonderful wife Celia he was imperceptibly drawn into the key role of organising the underground movement among loyal native and giving support to the Australian Prisoners of War transferred to Borneo from Singapore. In 1943 he was exposed to the Japanese, arrested and terribly tortured. Donated by Major General M.P.J. O'Brien, July 2018. Signed by authorIll, p.151non-fictionPeter Firkins has produced a heroic figure comparable in courage and selflessness to that of the legendary 'Weary' Dunlop, and whose story should be known by all Australians in the same way. What a wonderful epitaph to a man born into a humble Yass family at the end of the nineteenth century who, by his own determination and intellect, won a scholarship for his secondary education at St Patrick's College, Goulburn and an Exhibition to study medicine at Sydney University. Almost by pure chance he pursued his medical career in an outpost of the British Empire then known as British North Borneo to become Principal Medical Officer at the time of the Japanese occupation during World War II. The Japanese allowed the civilian medical staff to remain at their posts with the status of 'simple confinement' while at the same time the bewildered local people looked to someone for leadership in their new and unaccustomed circumstances.Aided by his wonderful wife Celia he was imperceptibly drawn into the key role of organising the underground movement among loyal native and giving support to the Australian Prisoners of War transferred to Borneo from Singapore. In 1943 he was exposed to the Japanese, arrested and terribly tortured. Donated by Major General M.P.J. O'Brien, July 2018. Signed by authorworld war 1939 – 1945 - prisons and prisoners - japanese, world war 1939 – 1945 – personal narratives – australia -
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Book, 37/52 Australian Infantry Battalion Association, A young man's war : a history of the 37th/52nd Australian Infantry Battalion in World War Two : Battle honours South West Pacific 1943-1945, liberation of Australian New Guinea, Gusika -Fortification Point, 1992
A history of the wartime experiences of the Australian Army 37th/52nd infantry battalionsIndex, ill, maps, p.428.non-fictionA history of the wartime experiences of the Australian Army 37th/52nd infantry battalionsworld war 1939-1945 - regimental histories - australia, world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - south west pacific -
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Book, Fontana, Safer than a known way : one man's epic struggle against Japanese and jungle, 1975
The personal experiences of an officer in the Gurkhas who joined Wingate's Chindits during the Burma campaign in World War II.p.287.non-fictionThe personal experiences of an officer in the Gurkhas who joined Wingate's Chindits during the Burma campaign in World War II. world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - burma, world war 1939-1945 - personal narratives -
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book, Eric Morris, Curt Johnson, Christopher Chant, H P Willmott, Weapons and warfare of the twentieth century, 1975
A panoramic survey of the fighting man and his weapons in the twentieth centuryIndex, ill, maps, p.475.non-fictionA panoramic survey of the fighting man and his weapons in the twentieth centurymilitary weapons - history, air warfare - history -
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Book, Oxford University Press, ANZAC memories: Living with the legend, ????
What is taboo in any family or in any society is never fixed. And neither is that body of family information which everybody knows but no one talks about. Mental illness is one such subject, and it created a kind of fence around one central element of Thomson's work in the 1980s - his grandfather Hector's story. He has had the courage to take that fence down and use a range of sources to enter the no man's land of suffering and isolation which was a part of his grandfather's life, and perforce, that of his grandmother and the young child who became his father. When the first edition was in preparation, Alistair Thomson's father objected strenuously to any mention in the book of his father's (Alistair's grandfather's) mental illness; reluctantly Alistair agreed to leave out the subject. We can understand why the author's father, himself a soldier, felt so strongly. .Index, bib, ill, p.239.non-fictionWhat is taboo in any family or in any society is never fixed. And neither is that body of family information which everybody knows but no one talks about. Mental illness is one such subject, and it created a kind of fence around one central element of Thomson's work in the 1980s - his grandfather Hector's story. He has had the courage to take that fence down and use a range of sources to enter the no man's land of suffering and isolation which was a part of his grandfather's life, and perforce, that of his grandmother and the young child who became his father. When the first edition was in preparation, Alistair Thomson's father objected strenuously to any mention in the book of his father's (Alistair's grandfather's) mental illness; reluctantly Alistair agreed to leave out the subject. We can understand why the author's father, himself a soldier, felt so strongly. .world war 1939 – 1945 – personal narratives – australia, world war 1914-1918 - biography -
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Book, Corgi Books, The sharp end of war : the fighting man in World War II, 1980
A graphic description of what combat was like for the ordinary soldiers of World war TwoIndex, bib, ill, p.396.non-fictionA graphic description of what combat was like for the ordinary soldiers of World war Twoworld war 1939-1945, soldiers - history - 20th century -
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One Day Hill, The line : a man's experience; a son's quest to understand, 2006
A man's reflection of the infamous Burma railwayp.190.non-fictionA man's reflection of the infamous Burma railwayworld war 1939 – 1945 - prisons and prisoners – japanese, burma - thailand railway