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Author: Peter Rees
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781741141535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tim Fischer and Peter Rees tell the tales of some real outback heroes, their communities and their success in bouncing back from hardship to success. Full of canny thinking, hard work and a refusal to give up, these inspiring stories come from every corner of Australia.
Author: Peter Rees
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2014-06-25
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1743437439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War. Now a major six-part television series. By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Their strength and dignity were remarkable. Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps and the wards, and the tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to shine through and enrich our experience. Profoundly moving, Anzac Girls is a story of extraordinary courage and humanity shown by a group of women whose contribution to the Anzac legend has barely been recognised in our history. Peter Rees has changed that understanding forever.
Author: Peter Rees
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1743433980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who undertook some of the most dangerous operations of World War II. They flew raid after raid over France and Germany knowing that the odds were against them. Stretched to breaking point, nearly 3500 died in the air. Their bravery in extreme circumstances has barely been recognised. Peter Rees traces the extraordinary achievements of these young aviators. He tells their hair-raising stories of battle action and life on the ground. And he recounts how, when they returned to Australia, they were greeted as Jap dodgers and accused of 'hiding in England while we were doing it tough'. Exciting, compelling and full of life, Lancaster Men is a powerful tribute to these forgotten Australian heroes of World War II.
Author: Tim Fischer
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781922235596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Who was the most innovative general of WW1? For Tim Fischer, the answer has to be Australias Maestro John Monash, a man who, for all the recognition he received in his lifetime and after, has arguably not been given his proper due. The Honourable Tim Fischer AC is the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.
Author: James Arthur Mahoney
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of nostalgic and humorous columns published by The Land in 1960-61 and written by James Arthur Mahoney under the pen name of Tarboy. Illustrated with a rich treasure trove of classical rural photos found in the archives of the The Land.
Author: Peter Rees
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781865085340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the Honourable Tim Fischer, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Minister for Trade and Leader of the National Party, rose in the House of Representatives on 30 June 1999 to announce his resignation, the response was an overwhelming expression of genuine goodwill and affection - from both sides of the House and the general public. Here was a politician at the peak of his career, giving it all up for his family. This is the story of Tim Fischer's journey, from a country town in far southwest NSW to the centre of political power. It tells of an individual quietly determined to push past barriers and who succeeded where very few expected him to; and of someone prepared to be different and to make that difference part of a distinctive personal style, with the ever-present Akubra, a long-term commitment to Asia, a love of trains and his 'unusual' use of English. Here, too, is the very personal story of a man who came to acknowledge the conflict between the demands of a high-profile public life and the needs of family life - and made the toughest decision of his career.
Author: Peter Rees
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9781741142921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Australians and New Zealanders fought with great distinction in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East in the two world wars. The names are part of Australian history - Beersheba, El Alamein, Bardia, Benghazi.
Author: Peter Rees
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781760296414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Len Walters was a Kamilaroi man. Born on an Aboriginal reserve, he left school at thirteen and by twenty was piloting a RAAF Kittyhawk fighter with 78 Squadron in the lethal skies over the Pacific in World War II. It was serious and dangerous work and his achievement was extraordinary. These would be the best years of his life. Respected by his peers, he was living his dream. The war over, it should have been easy. Instead, he became a missing man in Australia's wartime flying history. Peter Rees rights that wrong in this powerful, compelling and at times tragic examination of Len Waters' life
