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Anzac's Dirty Dozen: 12 myths of Australian military history
ISBN: 9781742232881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealisation of 'Australian' virtues can thrive. In Anzac's Dirty Dozen a team of renowned historians resume the battle to expose a host of stubborn fantasies and fabrications that obscure the real story. Did our military history start at Gallipoli? Do we really punch above our weight in military might? Are our soldiers more ethical than others in combat? Is the...
Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often ...
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Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and Late-Victorian Imperial Defence
ISBN: 9781107094826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and the Late-Victorian Imperial Defence presents an in-depth, international study of imperial land defence prior to 1914. The book makes sense of the failures, false starts and successes that eventually led to more than 850 000 men being despatched from the Dominions to buttress Britain's Great War effort - an enormous achievement for intra-empire military cooperation. Craig Stockings presents a vivid portrayal of this complex process as it unfolded throughout the late-Victorian Empire through a biographical study of Lieutenant-General...
Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and the Late-Victorian Imperial Defence presents an in-depth, international study of imperial...
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Zombie Myths of Australian Military History
ISBN: 9781742230795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this fascinating account, leading Australian military historians tackle 10 of the most enduring historical zombies, or national myths, that have staggered their way through the halls of military history for more than 200 years. From Aboriginal resistance and invasion to Australia's recent involvement in East Timor, this record disproves the incorrectly memorialized and so-called gallant deeds of past Australian servicemen. Provocative and opinionated, this record attempts to correct the historical record.
In this fascinating account, leading Australian military historians tackle 10 of the most enduring historical zombies, or national myths, that have st...
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78,15 |
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Before the Anzac Dawn: A Military History of Australia Before 1915
ISBN: 9781742233697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive and compelling account of Australian military history before any soldier set foot on Gallipoli. It shows that this pre-1915 history has largely been forgotten. Indeed the extent to which Australians thought about war and experienced war before ANZAC existed will surprise many readers.Starting with detailed accounts of both traditional indigenous warfare and frontier wars between whites settlers and indigenous inhabitants, we learn of the setting up of colonial navies, the red coats who guarded the colonies, Australians fighting in wars against New Zealand...
This book provides a comprehensive and compelling account of Australian military history before any soldier set foot on Gallipoli. It shows that this...
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83,04 |
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An Army of Influence: Eighty Years of Regional Engagement
ISBN: 9781316514399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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Swastika over the Acropolis: Re-interpreting the Nazi Invasion of Greece in World War II
ISBN: 9789004254572 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 646 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Swastika over the Acropolis is a new, multi-national account which provides a new and compelling interpretation of the Greek campaign of 1941, and its place in the history of World War II. It overturns many previously accepted English-language assumptions about the fighting in Greece in April 1941 - including, for example, the impact usually ascribed to the Luftwaffe, German armour and the conduct of the Greek Army Further, Swastika over the Acropolis demonstrates that this last complete strategic victory by Nazi Germany in World War II is set against a British-Dominion campaign...
Swastika over the Acropolis is a new, multi-national account which provides a new and compelling interpretation of the Greek campaign of 1941, ...
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The Shadow Men: The leaders who shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam
ISBN: 9781742234748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. There is no question that these famous figures of the Australian Army are important, but their story is not the story. There are also the individuals who shaped the history of the Australian Army in the 20th century, as intellectuals,strategists and administrators, but are largely invisible in popular memory. The Shadow Men brings together some of Australia's best military historians to shed light on ten of these men and to bring their achievements and influence into the foreground.
There is no question that these famous figures of the Australian Army are important, but their story is not the story. There are also the individuals ...
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83,04 |
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