Australia's Forgotten Soldiers in the Empire, 1939–1947
| Author | : Lee Rippon |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3031638069 |
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Australia's Forgotten Soldiers in the Empire, 1939–1947
| Author | : Lee Rippon |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-08-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9783031638053 |
This book explores how Australia managed the prisoner of war issue throughout the Second World War and the immediate post-war period. It examines how the Australian government responded to the captivity of thousands of Australians in Italy and the detention of an even greater number of Italians in Australia. The war, it finds, created a series of diplomatic and political challenges for belligerent governments, including Australia. The author contends that Australia’s response was guided not only by other pragmatic considerations such as reciprocity, the practicalities of war and, importantly, national interest. The Australian government was not the only one to manage its prisoner of war policy in this way. By exploring the Australian government’s relationship with Britain as part of the British Empire, this book clarifies under what circumstances and to what extent Australia sought to assert a level of independence in pursuing its national interest, even when that approach did not align with British policy.
Australia's Forgotten Soldiers from Paraguay
| Author | : Robert Barnes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2022-04-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781922803948 |
A quarter of a century ago a large number of people left Australia with the idea of foundling a New Australia a communistic paradise in the wilds of Paraguay, in South Am3erica (states The Diggers' Gazette). The attempt was a disastrous failure, but it is interesting to learn that the half-dozen families still left of the original settlers at Colonia Cosme sent 14 volunteers to the war practically every fit man. One was 56 years old , and others were so young when they left Australia that they could not remember it at all. And they had to travel a thousand miles, presumably at their own expense, to reach the coast at Buenos Ayres. Probably this fine result was due to a survival of the influence of William Lane, the founder of the colony, who was always a strongly British in sentiment, lost a son in the war., and was largely instrumental, as editor of a daily newspaper in New Zealand, in getting compulsory service adopted there.
Australian Women and War
| Author | : Melanie Oppenheimer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Australia |
| ISBN | : 9781877007286 |
Sourced from Oppenheimer's own research and archival material from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Red Cross archives and State Libraries, Australian Women and War contains accounts of women such as Nursing Sister Nellie Gould in the Boer War and Angela Rhodes, the first Australian Military female air traffic controller to serve in Baghdad during the second Gulf War. The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the internment (concentration) camps.
Forgotten Men
| Author | : Michael Tyquin |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2011-02-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1921941308 |
Forgotten Men is the long overdue account of the significant contribution to the Australian Army of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps in two world wars. One of the army's smallest and least recognised corps, its humble beginnings and quiet work in the background belie the crucial role of the Corps in supporting wartime operations and dealing with logistical issues never envisaged before 1915. While their place in military history is often overlooked, the men of the Australian Veterinary Corps deserve recognition. Stoic and hardworking, they unselfishly worked among the horrors of war, to provide the support needed for army units and their animals. While the Veterinary Corps reached its peak during the Great War, its role did not end when the guns fell silent in 1918. Instead, the Corps continued to support military activities across Australia until horsepower finally gave way to mechanisation in World War II. The Corps' success in enabling the 1st Australian Imperial Force to fight in two theatres, each with its own peculiar veterinary problems, is an achievement worth recording. Doctor Michael Tyquin is a consulting historian based in Canberra. He has published extensively in the areas of Australian social, medical and military history. He is a serving member of the Australian Army Reserve which he joined as a medical assistant with the 4/19th Prince of Wales Light Horse. He is the official historian of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland's Centre for Military and Veterans' Health.
Empire Lost
| Author | : Andrew Stewart |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2008-11-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1847252443 |
Using government records, private letters and diaries and contemporary media sources, this book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire's last great conflict. It asks why this political and military coalition was ultimately successful in overcoming the challenge of the Axis powers but, in the process, proved unable to preserve itself. Although these changes were inevitable the manner of the evolution was sometimes painful, as Britain's wartime economic decline left its political position exposed in a changing post-war international system.
Empire Lost
| Author | : Andrew Stewart |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2008-09-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1441133038 |
Using government records, private letters and diaries and contemporary media sources, this book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire's last great conflict. It asks why this political and military coalition was ultimately successful in overcoming the challenge of the Axis powers but, in the process, proved unable to preserve itself. Although these changes were inevitable the manner of the evolution was sometimes painful, as Britain's wartime economic decline left its political position exposed in a changing post-war international system.
Forgotten War
| Author | : Brian E. Walter |
| Publisher | : Casemate |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2023-12-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1636243584 |
A new assessment of the British and Commonwealth contribution to the defeat of Japan in the Pacific. The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major contributions—on land, at sea and in the air, eventually involving over a million men and vast armadas of ships and aircraft. It was a difficult and often desperate conflict fought against a skilled and ruthless enemy that initially saw the British suffer the worst series of defeats ever to befall their armed forces. Still, the British persevered and slowly turned the tables on their Japanese antagonists. Fighting over an immense area that stretched from India in the west to the Solomon Islands in the east and Australia in the south to the waters off Japan in the north, British and Commonwealth forces eventually scored a string of stirring victories that avenged their earlier defeats and helped facilitate the demise of the Japanese Empire. Often overlooked by history, this substantial war effort is fully explored in Forgotten War. Meticulously researched, the book provides a complete, balanced and detailed account of the role that British and Commonwealth forces played on land, sea and in the air during this crucial struggle. It also provides unique analysis regarding the effectiveness and relevance of this collective effort and the contributions it made to the overall Allied victory.
Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War
| Author | : R. Scott Sheffield |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108424635 |
A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.
The British Empire and its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940–1947
| Author | : B. Moore |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2002-03-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0230512143 |
During the Second World War, British and Imperial forces captured more than half a million Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen. Although a symbol of military success, these prisoners created a multitude of problems for the authorities throughout the war. This book looks at how the British addressed these problems and turned liabilities into assets by using the Italians as a labour force, a source of military intelligence and as a political warfare tool before their final repatriation in 1946-47.
