Australia in the War of 1939-1945: Royal Australian Air Force 1939-42 by Douglas Gillison
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Page : 858 pages
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Category : Australian War Memorial
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Page : 858 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
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Category : Australian War Memorial
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 1957
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1952
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : [Anonymus AC06560586]
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Page : 800 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1957
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Sir Paul Hasluck
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 1952
Category : History
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Author : Gavin Long
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Page : 716 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 1952
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Douglas Gillison
Publisher : Canberra, Australia : Australian War Memorial
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 1962
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Joan Beaumont
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1000256316
The Second World War was a dominant experience in Australian history. For the first time the country faced the threat of invasion. The economy and society were mobilised to an unprecedented degree, with 550 000 men and women, or one in twelve of a population of over 7 million, serving in the armed forces overseas. Social patterns and family life were disrupted. Politically, the war gave a new legitimacy to the Australian Labor Party which had been confined to the wilderness of the Opposition at the Federal level for most of the inter-war years. The powers of the Federal government increased and a new momentum for social reform was generated at the popular and governmental level. In the international sphere, the war fundamentally shook Australian confidence in the power on which it had relied for generations, Great Britain. It generated a sense of independence in Australian foreign policy and initiated a new, if halting and problematic, realignment towards the United States. In this accessible book Joan Beaumont, Kate Darian-Smith, David Lee, David Lowe, Marnie Haig-Muir, Roy Hay and David Walker consider the range of Australia's experience of this conflict. In a single volume they draw together the many aspects of the war and distil the current state of historical scholarship. Australia's War 1939-45 will be invaluable to tertiary students and of enormous interest to the reader concerned with the social, political and military history of Australia. A companion volume on the First World War is also available.
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Page : 624 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
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Category : Australian War Memorial
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Author : Bruce Gamble
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0760345597
For most of World War II, the mention of Japan's island stronghold sent shudders through thousands of Allied airmen. Some called it “Fortress Rabaul,” an apt name for the headquarters of the Imperial Japanese forces in the Southwest Pacific. Author Bruce Gamble chronicles Rabaul’s crucial role in Japanese operations in the Southwest Pacific. Millions of square feet of housing and storage facilities supported a hundred thousand soldiers and naval personnel. Simpson Harbor and the airfields were the focus of hundreds of missions by American air forces. Winner of the "Gold Medal" (Military Writers Society of America) and "Editor's Choice Award" (Stone & Stone Second World War Books), Fortress Rabaul details a critical and, until now, little understood chapter in the history of World War II.