Australia & Oceania
epub |eng | 2013-09-20 | Author:Bruce Gamble [Gamble, Bruce]

Listened to a lecture for approximately an hour on the shortcomings of the Air Force in general and the Allied Air Force in the Southwest Pacific in particular. [MacArthur] said, ...
( Category: Oceania November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [ Middlebrook Martin]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN May the 25th In an attempt to help with the intense air battle, Admiral Woodward had posted two of his ships, Coventry and Broadsword, as a ‘42–22 combination ...
( Category: Argentina October 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-08 | Author:Bruce Gamble

CHAPTER TEN ESCAPE: THE LAKATOI “… after many adventures we arrived at Port Moresby.” —Sergeant Clive MacVean, 2/22nd Battalion The mass murders at Tol and Waitavalo plantations on February 4 ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ray Whitrod

7 Papua New Guinea (1969-1970) LIFE was proceeding normally in Canberra when I was asked by an old colleague who was about to retire from the Police Commissioner’s job in ...
( Category: Law Enforcement June 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:James L. Haley [Haley, James L.]

13. Mountains of Sugar Whaling, which once anchored the islands’ commerce with the outside world, had peaked in the early 1850s. But the decline in the number of whales, then ...
( Category: State & Local June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:

1 These words are spoken to Ren6 by the blind Indian Chactas at the beginning of ‘le Récit’ of Chateaubriand’s ‘Atala’ (Fernand Letessier (1962) [ed.] Atala, Rene, les Aventures du ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 2,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Patrick Lindsay

We marched along the road in single file keeping to the right under cover of the hedge as much as possible – and about five minute intervals between platoons, till ...
( Category: France May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:James Boyce [Boyce, James]

expedite the general occupation by the people of this Kingdom or their descendents of those vast territories, in which our national wealth and industry have already, in the last half ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian May 25,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-07 | Author:John C. Chapin

Another new element was the way rockets were used. This was a centuries-old technique of bombardment, but in the Marshalls the 4th Marine Division was the first American division to ...
( Category: Marshall Islands May 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Jill Ker Conway

7. THE NARDOO STONES IN THE 1950S, ONE’S first vision of the University of Sydney from its main gates was of a graceful sweep of lawn curving up a gentle ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Jeanine Leane

Marching with Hannibal We used to lose our Aunty Bubby sometimes. Aunty Boo would say, ‘She’s prob’ly up on the hill with that bloody book.’ That bloody book was Wuthering ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Brian Gill

Old specimens in natural history museums, provided they have been carefully documented and faithfully numbered and labelled, tell many such stories—not just of bygone days and remote and exotic places, ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Watkin Tench

10 The arrival of the Supply from Batavia; the state of the colony in November 1790 JOY sparkled in every countenance to see our old friend the Supply (I hope ...
( Category: World March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Martin Edmond [Edmond, Martin]

THERE WAS A TENDENCY among Europeans to see the so-called primitive societies they found as not just pristine but changeless as well: as if they had existed since time immemorial ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Robert Leckie

( Category: World War II January 6,2015 )