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| Author | : Mary-Anne O'Connor |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Australia |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2015-03-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0857996169 |
An Anzac tale of three families whose destinies are entwined by war, tragedy and passion. At 17, Veronica O'Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother requires, and she despairs both of her secret passion for her brother's friend Jack Murphy and what promises to be a future of restraint and compliance. But this is 1913 and the genteel tranquillity of rural Beecroft is about to change forever as the O'Shay and Murphy families, along with their friends the Dwyers, are caught up in the theatre of war and their fates become intertwined. From the horrors of Gallipoli to the bloody battles of the Somme, through love lost and found, the Great Depression and the desperate jungle war along the Kokoda Track, this sprawling family drama brings to life a time long past... a time of desperate love born in desperate times and acts of friendship against impossible odds. A love letter to Australian landscape and character, Gallipoli Street celebrates both mateship and the enduring quality of real love. But more than that, this book shows us where we have come from as a nation, by revealing the adversity and passions that forged us. A stunning novel that brings to life the love and courage that formed our Anzac tradition.
| Author | : Sydney |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 840 |
| Release | : 1920 |
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| Author | : K. S. Inglis |
| Publisher | : The Miegunyah Press |
| Total Pages | : 658 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0522854796 |
Memorials to Australian participation in wars abound in our landscape. From Melbourne's huge Shrine of Remembrance to the modest marble soldier, obelisk or memorial hall in suburb and country town, they mourn and honour Australians who have served and died for their country. Surprisingly, they have largely escaped scrutiny. Ken Inglis argues that the imagery, rituals and rhetoric generated around memorials constitute a civil religion, a cult of ANZAC. Sacred Places traces three elements which converged to create the cult: the special place of war in the European mind when nationalism was at its zenith; the colonial condition; and the death of so many young men in distant battle, which impelled the bereaved to make substitutes for the graves of which history had deprived them. The 'war memorial movement' attracted conflict as well as commitment. Inglis looks at uneasy acceptance, even rejection, of the cult by socialists, pacifists, feminists and some Christians, and at its virtual exclusion of Aborigines. He suggests that between 1918 and 1939 the making, dedication and use of memorials enhanced the power of the right in Australian public life. Finally, he examines a paradox. Why, as Australia's wars recede in public and private memory, and as a once British Australia becomes multicultural, have the memorials and what they stand for become more cherished than ever? Sacred Places spans war, religion, politics, language and the visual arts. Ken Inglis has distilled new cultural understandings from a familiar landscape.
| Author | : Robin Prior |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2009-06-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300159919 |
The noted historian’s decisive and devastating history of the WWI Battle of Gallipoli “sets a new standard for assessing the Allied Dardanelles campaign" (Mustafa Aksakal, American Historical Review). The Gallipoli campaign of 1915–16 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to take control of the Dardanelles, secure a sea route to Russia, and create a Balkan alliance against the Central Powers. A failure in all respects, the operation ended in disaster, and the Allied forces suffered some 390,000 casualties. In this conclusive study, military historian Robin Prior assesses the many myths about Gallipoli and provides definitive answers to questions that have lingered about the operation. Prior proceeds step by step through the campaign, dealing with naval, military, and political matters and surveying the operations of all the armies involved: British, Anzac, French, Indian, and Turkish. Relying on primary documents, including war diaries and technical military sources, Prior evaluates the strategy, the commanders, and the performance of soldiers on the ground. His conclusions are powerful and unsettling: the naval campaign was not “almost” won, and the land action was not bedeviled by “minor misfortunes.” Instead, the badly conceived Gallipoli campaign was doomed from the start. And even had it been successful, the operation would not have shortened the war by a single day. Despite their bravery, the Allied troops who fell at Gallipoli died in vain. A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2009
| Author | : Mary-Anne O'Connor |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Australia |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2017-10-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1489241221 |
Set against the colourful backdrop of a swinging sixties Sydney and the brutality of the Vietnam War, War Flower follows the journey of six young people through their lives in a turbulent era, and asks — can love still prevail when horror becomes almost too much to bear? Can love prevail, when horror becomes too much to bear? The 1960s are beating a fresh pulse of political and cultural upheaval through Sydney. For sheltered convent schoolgirl Poppy Flannery such changes seem irrelevant. But it doesn't stop her from longing to join in, especially if it means spending time with the popular boy she secretly loves, Ben Williamson. So when the opportunity for a dream escape to Surfers Paradise arrives, Poppy and her twin sister Rosemary seize it and find themselves in the midst of the swinging sixties at last. Rosemary embraces their secret new life with a vengeance, discovering drugs, boys and radical politics in a haze of parties, music festivals and protest marches. But such freedom is stolen when Rosemary's great love, Angus, is sent to Vietnam, along with Ben. Soon a war fought thousands of kilometres away will arrive on the twins' door in the form of orphaned refugee Thuy. As many more victims begin to appear, including shattered versions of Australian soldiers, they must decide how far they will go for the men they adore, and ask themselves whether love really is all you need.
| Author | : Jenny Macleod |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2015-07-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0191035238 |
The British-led Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that attacked the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli in 1915 was a multi-national affair, including Australian, New Zealand, Irish, French, and Indian soldiers. Ultimately a failure, the campaign ended with the withdrawal of the Allied forces after less than nine months and the unexpected victory of the Ottoman armies and their German allies. In Britain, the campaign led to the removal of Churchill from his post as First Lord of the Admiralty and the abandonment of the plan to attack Germany via its 'soft underbelly' in the East. Thereafter, it was largely forgotten on a national level, commemorated only in specific localities linked to the campaign. In post-war Turkey, by contrast, the memory of Gallipoli played an important role in the formation of a Turkish national identity, celebrating both the ordinary soldier and the genius of the republic's first president, Mustafa Kemal. The campaign served a similarly important formative role in both Australia and New Zealand, where it is commemorated annually on Anzac Day. For the southern Irish, meanwhile, the bitter memory of service for the King in a botched campaign was forgotten for decades. Shaped initially by the imperatives of war-time, and the needs of the grief-stricken and the bereft, the memory of Gallipoli has been re-made time and again over the last century. For the Turks an inspirational victory, for many on the Allied side a glorious and romantic defeat, for others still an episode best forgotten, 'Gallipoli' has meant different things to different people, serving by turns as an occasion of sincere and heartfelt sorrow, an opportunity for separatist and feminist protest, and a formative influence in the forging of national identities.
| Author | : Mary-Anne O'Connor |
| Publisher | : Penguin Group Australia |
| Total Pages | : 471 |
| Release | : 2024-04-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1761344447 |
'Fans of Natasha Lester and Victoria Purman will adore...' Better Reading 1914: Brothers Thom and Archie Hogan are the best of friends who love nothing more than tinkering with their father’s old biplane. They dream of one day flying over the wheatfields of their farm, but when Molly James arrives in town, matters of the heart come between them. Beautiful and headstrong, Molly captures the attention of both young men, until war strikes and the brothers rush to enlist. Molly answers the call to nurse in London, and nothing is a game any more. In the Middle East and Europe, war takes to the skies for the first time. There, Archie and Thom clash with legendary foes in a desperate quest for survival, even as a battle of hearts wages below. Tension between the trio looks set to implode – just as Molly is faced with a dangerous mission all on her own. At the going down of the sun, heroes will rise, hearts will soar, and ANZAC legend will be made. Based on a true story of the author’s grandfather’s wartime experiences in Gallipoli, At the Going Down of the Sun explores the intense bond between soldiers and brothers fighting in war, and a love with the power to tear them apart. Praise for Mary-Anne O’Connor: ‘A roller-coaster of emotions. One minute it will have you laughing; the next you’ll be heartbroken. It’s that good.’ - Good Reading Magazine Based on a true story of the author's grandfather's wartime experiences, At the Going Down of the Sun explores the intense bond between soldiers and brothers fighting in war, and a love with the power to tear them apart. Praise for Mary-Anne O'Connor: ‘A roller-coaster of emotions. One minute it will have you laughing; the next you'll be heartbroken. It's that good.' - Good Reading Magazine 'Heart-warming and heart-wrenching' - the Hoopla 'Moved us deeply'- Apple iBooks 'Wins over the reader with the clarity of her characters and a strong plot' - Daily Telegraph 'Will stay with you well after you have finished reading it' - QBD bookstores
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| Total Pages | : 1020 |
| Release | : 1927 |
| Genre | : Building |
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| Author | : Australia. Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1330 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : Arbitration, Industrial |
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| Author | : Simon Drake |
| Publisher | : Simon Drake |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2008-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0955971918 |
Following a global refugee crisis, Indonesia invades half of Australia and warlords emerge from the chaos of Occupied Australia. China steps in as the only superpower capable of restoring peace. Major Katherine Krue is ordered to take out an ex-Australian Army colonel, who commands a militia army and imports weapons of mass destruction.
