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Author: Maria Hill
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1742230148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Little is known about the real reasons that Australia committed troops to Greece. Australian historians have, for too long, neglected the Greek and Crete campaigns and what has been written, until now, has ignored the Greek side of the story.
Author: Robert Loeffel
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1137506679
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alarming levels of fear and suspicion developed in Australia following the German victories in Europe of 1940. It was believed the Nazis had prepared an army of subversives a Fifth Column to undermine the war effort. These suspicions plagued the Australian home front for much of the war.
Author: George V. Higgins
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0307947270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jerry "Digger" Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman's Boston bar, who supplements his income with the occasional "odd job," like stealing live checks and picking up hot goods. His brother’s a priest, his wife’s a nag, and he’s got a deadly appetite for martinis and gambling. But when the Digger looses eighteen grand in borrowed money on a trip to Vegas, he quickly finds himself in the sights of mob loneshark “the Greek,” who will have to make the Digger pay up one way or another. Luckily—if you call it luck—the Digger has been let in on a little job that can turn his gambling debt into a profit, as long as he can pull it off without getting killed.
Author: Mark Johnston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 110703096X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides an exploration of the experiences of soldiers who fought in the Middle East during World War II.
Author: Joy Damousi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-11-12
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1107115949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major new study which evaluates the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora.
Author: Craig Stockings
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9004254595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 mounted as a withdrawal, not an attempt to ‘save’ Greece from invasion and occupation. At the same time, on the German side, the campaign revealed serious and systemic weaknesses in the planning and the conduct of large-scale operations that would play a significant role in the regime’s later defeats.
Author: Leonard Cottrell
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comprehensive introduction, ranging from European prehistory to the cultures of pre-Columbian America, the Middle East to China, the Americas and Europe.
Author: H. A. Guerber
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Published: 1996-10
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780819620941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Published: 2014-02-28
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1869797043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The social history of New Zealand's gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries. A thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand. Based on sound scholarship and aimed at the general reader it's accessibly written in a clear, clean and lively style. The scope is the social history of the goldfields of colonial New Zealand, from the 1850s to the 1870s. The book opens with a survey of worldwide rushes in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, when for the first time in history a great wheeling movement of gold diggers began to revolve from continent to continent. The main body of the book looks at all the rushes, large and small, that took place in the colony: Coromandel, Golden Bay, Otago, Marlborough, the West Coast and Thames. The early chapters of the main body survey rushes chronologically; the later chapters look at rushes thematically. 'I owe a debt of gratitude to . . . Stevan Eldred-Grigg's history of the New Zealand gold rushes Diggers, hatters & whores.' Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
