Letters from the Emu War
Author: James Adrian Bryden
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780645385014
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Letters from the Emu War
Letters from the Emu War
Author: J. A. Bryden
Publisher: J.A. Bryden
Published: 2021-12-31
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780645385007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on true events Letters from the emu war tells the story of the great emu war of 1932 from the unique perspective of those who won. (Spoiler alert: It was the emus.) The book follows a number of fictional characters including Edward R Long-toe, the leader of the Mob and William J Whistlebeak, a researcher/historian as they travel west in search of food and inevitably find themselves in war. The story is told entirely through letters, Journals and newspaper articles. It's a book like no other based on a true event like no other.
Letters from the Emu War
Author: J. A. Bryden
Publisher: Playtime Books
Published: 2023-05-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781922851246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →BASED ON TRUE EVENTS, LETTERS FROM THE EMU WAR tells the story of the Great Emu War of 1932 from the unique perspective of those who won. Follow Edward R Long-toe, William J Whistlebeak, John Feathers and others through their adventures before, during and after the war. Read journal entries, newspaper articles and letters to and from their loved ones. With every turn of the page, you will gain a deeper understanding of the life and times of emus at war. "A delightfully clever envisioning of the Australian Emu War. From war to love, friendship to bravery, this story had everything. Times of comedic genius had me laughing at this imagining of the world through an emu's eyes..." Jade, Indie Book reviewer
Lest
Author: Mark Dapin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-07-03
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1761108077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Simpson’s donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn’t happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight. Australia’s war tales could be said to be the closest thing we have to sacred stories: ANZAC, Simpson and his donkey, Changi, the wronged diggers in Vietnam, Ben Roberts-Smith. Millions of dollars are spent enshrining these stories in the War Memorial in Canberra and the Australian National Memorial in France, amongst others. But did what we’re celebrating actually happen? In this book, award-winning author and historian Mark Dapin shows that often the reality was completely different from the myth – and that by celebrating the wrong people, we often forget about the real heroes. With deep research and a sharp wit, Lest reclaims the truth about our military history.
Letters from Gallipoli
Author: Glyn Harper
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 177558111X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revealing and often heartbreaking, this collection of letters offers a powerful firsthand account of a pivotal event in New Zealand history: World War I's Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. Grouped in chronological order, the correspondence—gathered from archives, newspapers, and family collections—details the campaign's harrowing conditions and key events, from preparation and landing on the Ottoman peninsula to the December withdrawal. In these epistles, the intense emotions of the men who survived the trenches are made known, whether it be jubilation at ground gained or sorrow at the passing of friends. Biographical notes on the letter writers, historic photographs, and a comprehensive introduction are also included.
The Great Emu War
Author: Gordon Cope
Publisher:
Published: 2018-09-06
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780648384205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1932 in the wheat country of Western Australia there was a plague of emus. The plague was so great that the Federal Government was convinced to send a squad of soldiers equipped with machine guns mounted on trucks. They were ordered to shoot the emus - a tactic that had been tried before and failed miserably. Still, consistency often prevails while unrequited success weeps quietly in the corner. There is a lot going on - farmers who want to secede from the Commonwealth, a State election and referendum, soldiers more interested in what is under the soil, a commander with questionable mental health, Aboriginal farmhands once again bemused by the white fellas and the usual line up of conspirators, wannabees, politicians and ordinary folks. Oh, and many thousands of emus.There is nothing more interesting or more comical - tragic - or emotional than human beings and when they live in interesting times and collide with great wealth and power, there's a lot to explore.
The Great Emu War
Author: Cj Evans
Publisher:
Published: 2018-07-27
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 9781717941626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Great Emu War of 1932 is an event one does not expect to hear about when they think of Australia, but they actually declared war on a bird. This actually happened. As a side note I would like to say that this was probably one of the funnest things that I have ever written. Also some of the language used in this book is exaggerated at times, but I trust that you dear reader will know when that occurs.
Letters from France
Author: C. E. W. Bean
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-02
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These letters are in no sense a history—except that they contain the truth. They were written at the time and within close range of the events they describe. Half of the fighting, including the brave attack before Fromelles, is left untouched on, for these pages do not attempt to narrate the full story of the Australian Imperial Force in France. They were written to depict the surroundings in which, and the spirit with which, that history has been made; first in the quiet green Flemish lowlands, then with a swift, sudden plunge into the grim, reeking, naked desolation of the Somme. The record of the A.I.F., and its now historical units in their full action, will be painted upon that background someday. If these letters convey some reflection of the spirit which fought at Pozières, their object is well fulfilled.
Letters from the Trenches
Author: Jacqueline Wadsworth
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-11-30
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1781592845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.??Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups Ð from officers to conscripts and women at home to conscientious objectors.??Voices within the book include Sergeant John Adams, 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers, who wrote in May 1917:'For the day we get our letter from home is a red Letter day in the history of the soldier out here. It is the only way we can hear what is going on. The slender thread between us and the homeland.'??Private Stanley Goodhead, who served with one of the Manchester Pals battalion, wrote home in 1916: 'I came out of the trenches last night after being in 4 days. You have no idea what 4 days in the trenches means...The whole time I was in I had only about 2 hours sleep and that was in snatches on the firing step. What dugouts there are, are flooded with mud and water up to the knees and the rats hold swimming galas in them...We are literally caked with brown mud and it is in all?our food, tea etc.'??Jacqueline Wadsworth skilfully uses these letters to tell the human story of the First World War Ð what mattered to Britain's servicemen and their feelings about the war; how the conflict changed people; and how life continued on the Home Front.
