Twenty-one Years in the Royal Australian Navy: 1925 to 1946
Author : Bruce Dite
Publisher :
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Bruce Dite
Publisher :
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Australia
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Author : Tom Frame
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Academic
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781741142334
In 1901 Australia's fledgling Federal Government assumed the responsibility for the new nation's defence. Their first task was to take the aged and obsolete remnants of the colonies' navies and create a national navy to defend our island's coastal waters and overseas trade routes. For the first 40 years the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) was designed to serve alongside the Royal Navy, and resembled it in everything but scale. After the Second World War the RAN developed along US lines but, despite these overseas ties, the RAN has developed its own proud character and tradition and has entered the twenty-first century as a confident and independent force in its own right. In No Pleasure Cruise, Australia's best-known naval historian, Dr Tom Frame, charts the RAN's emergence as one of the world's strongest and most respected navies, and its evolving relationship with the Australian public, press and parliament.
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Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Science
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Author : Frank Burgess Eldridge
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Naval biography
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Author : Alastair Wilson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415308281
This A-Z guide covers the life and careers of over 600 key figures in naval history, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Featuring influential figures from the UK, US and around the world, from the great admirals such as Nelson, to minesweepers, designers and administrators, it is an invaluable guide to those who have shaped naval history.
Author : Royal Society of New South Wales
Publisher :
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Science
ISBN :
Includes list of members.
Author : Melanie Nolan
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1760464139
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians. The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects. The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender, ‘the first Australian celebrity to go public’ about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991. The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953. Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government’s campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage. Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Author : Melanie Oppenheimer
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781877007286
Sourced from Oppenheimer's own research and archival material from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Red Cross archives and State Libraries, Australian Women and War contains accounts of women such as Nursing Sister Nellie Gould in the Boer War and Angela Rhodes, the first Australian Military female air traffic controller to serve in Baghdad during the second Gulf War. The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the internment (concentration) camps.
Author : Joseph Moretz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 113634036X
Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much about British naval policy and planning of the time. Drawing heavily on official Admiralty records and private papers of leading officers, the author examines the navy's operational experience and the evolution of its tactical doctrine during the interwar period. He argues that operational experience, combined with assumptions about the nature of a future naval war, were more important in keeping the battleship afloat than conservatism in Navy.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 1428915850