Author : Neil McDonald
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Biography of notable Australian war photographer tells of his experiences in the Middle East, Greece, New Guinea, Guam and Peleliu. Also provides portraits of contemporaries such as Max Dupain, Olive Cotton and Chester Wilmot. Includes new material from private sources and Australian archives and some previously unpublished photographs. Indexed.
Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1922387762
Between the end of the Kokoda campaign in January 1943 and the start of the New Guinea offensives at Lae in early September 1943, the Australian Army was engaged in some of the most intense and challenging fighting of the war for the ridges around Salamaua. Following the defeat of the Japanese offensive against Wau, it was decided to carry the fight to the Japanese force at Salamaua but what started as platoon level actions in April and May 1943 soon developed into company, battalion and brigade level operations for control of the dominating ridge systems around Salamaua. Following an amphibious landing, an American infantry regiment and supporting artillery units were also drawn into the fighting in July 1943. Salamaua 1943 also includes detailed insights into the tenacious Japanese defence of Salamaua, a defence to a threat that in the end was only a feint to draw Japanese forces away from Lae. Incorporating over 120 photographs from the battlefield including drone footage plus 26 maps and the added detail of 15 sidebars, Salamaua 1943 takes the reader behind what was one of the most complex campaigns of the Pacific War.
Author : John Little
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0733627471
This is the story of David Brill, one of the very best of Australian cameramen - past and present. He is in the same company as Damien Parer and Neil Davis. Over the past forty years he has covered wars and disasters all over the world. He filmed the fall of Saigon. He was in Moscow during the collapse of communism. He has covered countless other conflicts and natural disasters in Asia, Africa and North and South America. He has been single-mindedly dedicated to the pursuit of his craft: to get the story, get the film - always to preserve and present the human dimension, no matter how large or mindless the conflict or event. David Brill has paid a high price for this uncompromising style. He has two failed marriages, and at times has been overcome by demons such as alcohol. This biography is also a great adventure story, a journey through war zones and various hell holes of the world. And it is an inside look at what makes some people follow a profession where their life is on the line - as a standard feature of their day.
Author : Neil McDonald
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Vital new discoveries enrich this revised and expanded version of Neil McDonald's classic 1994 biography of legendary photographer and war cameraman Damien Parer. The new revelations include the author's recent finding that during the darkest days of the withdrawal from Kokoda, Parer and ABC broadcaster Chester Wilmot were recruited as liaison officers. Parer's Oscar-winning newsreel Kokoda Front Line was not only a record of conditions on the Track, but a virtual report to the commanding general. Extended interviews with famed still photographer George Silk about his adventures with Parer in the Middle East and Greece cast new light on relationships in the photographic unit, headed by celebrated Antarctic photographer Frank Hurley. The most important new discovery is Parer's last completed film of a massacre on Guam - a moving testimony to his sensitivity and compassion. Frame enlargements from the original footage are published here for the first time in sixty years. The fast-paced narrative takes Parer from his education in Bathurst and his apprenticeship as a still photographer, to his time as one of Charles Chauvel's crew for Uncivilised and Forty Thousand Horsemen, culminating in his appointment as Official Photographer covering the Australian campaign in the Middle East, Greece, Syria and New Guinea. There are vivid portraits of famous contemporaries such as Chester Wilmot, Frank Hurley, Osmar White, Max Dupain, Olive Cotton, George Silk and Ron Maslyn Williams, as well as a moving description of Parer's romance with his wife of only a few months, Marie Elizabeth Cotter. The original foreword by Denis Warner, one of the few surviving witnesses of Parer's last hours, has been retained. Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty, contributes an afterword exploring the relevance of Parer's experiences to contemporary conflicts. Book jacket.
Author : Prue Torney-Parlicki
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780868405308
From 1941 to 1975, as a series of military conflicts gripped Asia and the Pacific, Australian journalism was dominated by war reporting from the region. Torney-Parlicki (history, U. of Melbourne) argues that the reporting went beyond the usual discussion of military strategy and, in an important way.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 1992
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780140147063
Author : Paul Ham
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0730450244
The inspiration for a major two-part ABC documentary, KOKODA is set to win over a whole new audience 'Never in my life ... had I seen soldiers who looked so shocked and so tired and so utterly weary as those men' Brigadier John Rogers, Australia's Director of Military Intelligence, 1942Now a major two-part ABC documentary series produced with Screen Australia's Making History, Paul Ham's KOKODA is the bestselling history of the crucial battles in Papua New Guinea that saved Australia from the threat of Japanese attack.In this acclaimed account, Ham describes both sides of the appalling struggle along the Kokoda track in 1942 when a few badly trained Australian troops confronted the Imperial Japanese Army in the worst terrain imaginable.Few of us know the true story behind that legend; few know the guts inside the myth. Kokoda was a war without mercy; a predatory war, where men hunted down men like wild animals. No army had fought in such conditions; no Allied general believed it possible.Yet Kokoda was a vital struggle; undoubtedly a turning point in the Pacific War. Had the Japanese captured Port Moresby, Australia would surely have been bombed and cut off as the only base in the South West Pacific for the Allied counter-offensive.the diggers were fighting for their very country's survival as the last free nation in Asia.Paul Ham is the author of VIEtNAM: tHE AUStRALIAN WAR and the Australia correspondent for the LONDON SUNDAY tIMES. He co-wrote, co-produced and appears in the ABC's two-part documentary based on this book, which, for the first time, took a camera crew along the full length of the KOKODA tRACK.
Author : Neil McDonald
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Military collection
ISBN : 9780733629600
Damien Parer was without doubt Australia s greatest war photographer. He helped create the Anzac legend and many, many of our iconic war images are his photographs. He served his apprenticeship as a stills photographer on the famous Chauvel film, Forty Thousand Horsemen, and was appointed Official Photographer covering the Australian fighting in the early days of World War II in Greece and Syria, and Tobruk. His most famous documentary is Kokoda Front Line!, made during the darkest days of the campaign in mid-1942 (it went on to win Australia s first Academy Award). His photographs and films brought the war home to Australians and are now an integral part of our military history. He died in action shot by Japanese machine gun fire, as he filmed an American advance on Peleliu. This is a colourful and authoritative story of a great Australian and includes many of his most iconic photographs.
Author : Frank Legg
Publisher : Adelaide, Rigby [1963]
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Photographers
ISBN :
Author : David W. Cameron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1922615684
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, and these men took up a position at Isurava, in the heart of the cloud covered mountains and jungles of the Owen Stanley Range. At Isurava, this small militia force of the 39th Battalion now numbering around 300 men was determined to make a stand against a crack Japanese force of the 144th Regiment and supporting elements, numbering at least 1500. Then on the day the Japanese launched their attack, to the great relief of these militiamen, reinforcements from the 2nd AIF who had fought with great distinction in the Middle East began to arrive in the afternoon having spent days struggling up the track from Port Moresby. Even so, the Australians were still outnumbered, as the Japanese also received reinforcements, and unlike the Japanese, the Australians had no supporting artillery or medium machineguns. The battle for Isurava would be the defining battle of the Kokoda Campaign and has rightfully been described as Australia’s Thermopylae. It was here that Australia’s first Victoria Cross in the Pacific war was awarded when the Japanese conducted several ferocious attacks against the Australian perimetre. Private Bruce Kingsbury led an Australian counterattack, rushing forward sweeping the Japanese positions with his Bren gun, saving he situation when all seemed lost — he was killed leading the charge. Another two men were also nominated for the VC during the fighting at Isurava. The outnumbered and poorly equipped Australians managed to hold back the Japanese advance for almost a week; only then did these battle scared and weary men begin a month long fighting withdraw towards Ioribaiwa Ridge just north of Port Morsby. However, their sacrifice provided time for the Australian 25th Brigade to be brought forward — finally forcing the Japanese to withdrawal just as they glimpsed the lights of Port Morseby.
