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| Author | : Hugh Price |
| Publisher | : Victoria University Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780864735386 |
This is a true story of events in New Zealand at the most desperate time of World War II, when Japanese invasion seemed likely, and the outcome of the terrible world struggle between the Allied and Axis powers could have gone either way. At this perilous moment, early in 1942, a prison inmate by the name of Syd Ross completed his sentence and was released from Waikeria Prison, and at once set about building the biggest hoax that New Zealand has ever seen, involving the Prime Minister, and another senior minister as hapless participants along the way. Syd's hoax grew and grew, and was about to burst, when he was astonished to find that it had been hijacked by a public figure, with more serious, and worrying, designs in mind. How this extraordinary matter unfolded is the tale at the heart of this book. As the Police Commissioner at the time said: the whole thing was " ... beyond comprehension."
| Author | : Steven Loveridge |
| Publisher | : Auckland University Press |
| Total Pages | : 704 |
| Release | : 2023-07-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1776710959 |
In 1900, a handful of New Zealand police detectives watched out for spies, seditionists and others who might pose a threat to state and society. The Police Force remained the primary instrument of such human intelligence in New Zealand until 1956 when, a decade into the Cold War, a dedicated Security Service was created. Over the same period, New Zealand' s role within signals intelligence networks evolved from the Imperial Wireless Chain to the UKUSA intelligence alliance (now known as Five Eyes).The first of two volumes chronicling the history of state surveillance in New Zealand, Secret History opens up the &‘ secret world' of security intelligence through to 1956. It is the story of the surveillers who &– in times of war and peace, turmoil and tranquillity &– monitored and analysed perceived threats to national interests. It is also the story of the surveilled: those whose association with organisations and movements led to their public and private lives being documented in secret files.Secret History explores a hidden and intriguing dimension of New Zealand history, one which sits uneasily with cherished national notions of an exceptionally fair and open society.
| Author | : Bronwyn Sell |
| Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2010-11-29 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1458724808 |
New Zealand was supposed to be a model society at the end of the world, a utopia for 'men and women of good character' who were willing to work hard for a better life. And, for most, so it proved. But this book is about the others - the misfits, the swindlers, the fallen women, the love rats, the escaped convicts, the hoaxers, the charlatans, the highwaymen, the mass murderers - from the earliest days of European settlement to the present day. Law Breakers and Mischief Makers gives the scandalous details of those who've made a name for themselves in New Zealand for all the wrong reasons. Take for example, Charlotte Badger, a pistol-wielding English thief who launched a mutiny on a Tasmanian convict ship in 1806 and sailed over to hide among the Maori of the Bay of Islands, and Amy Bock, a con woman who masqueraded as a wealthy man to marry the daughter of her landlady in 1909.Some of the people featured in this book are monsters, some are merely rascals, but all make fascinating reading. A lot of the people featured in it have somewhat disappeared into the mists of time and readers will be surprised at the shady characters in this country's past.
| Author | : Alexander Gillespie |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 640 |
| Release | : 2022-05-05 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1509931635 |
This book offers a unique insight into the key legal and social issues at play in New Zealand today. Tackling the most pressing issues, it tracks the evolution of these societal problems from 1840 to the present day. Issues explored include: racism; the position of women; the position of Maori and free speech and censorship. Through these issues, the authors track New Zealand's evolution to one of the most famously liberal and tolerant societies in the world.
| Author | : Anthony Stuart Farson |
| Publisher | : Praeger |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Intelligence service |
| ISBN | : |
Looks at national approaches to security and intelligence and the resulting impact on international cooperation. This two-volume work provides chapters on national cultures of security and intelligence that address common questions and themes.
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| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
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| Total Pages | : 838 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : American literature |
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| Author | : Nancy Wake |
| Publisher | : Macmillan Publishers Aus. |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2011-12-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1743346379 |
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling. After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman and settled in Marseilles. Her idyllic new life was ended by World War II and the invasion of France. Her life shattered, Nancy joined the French resistance and, later, began work with an escape-route network for allied soldiers. Eventually Nancy had to escape from France herself to avoid capture by the Gestapo. In London she trained with the Special Operations Executive as a secret agent and saboteur before parachuting back into France. Nancy became a leading figure in the Maquis of the Auvergne district, in charge of finance and obtaining arms, and helped to forge the Maquis into a superb fighting force. During her lifetime, Nancy Wake was hailed as a legend. Her autobiography recounts her extraordinary wartime experiences in her own words.
| Author | : William Blum |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-07-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1350348198 |
In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.
| Author | : C. R. Veitch |
| Publisher | : IUCN |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Biodiversity conservation |
| ISBN | : 2831706823 |
Includes papers and abstracts dealing with eradication of invasive species in Alaska, Australia, Baker Island, California, Christmas Island, Enderby and Rose Islands, Galapagos Islands, Hawaii, Howland Island, Japan, Jarvis Island, Laysan Island, Lord Howe Island, Mauritius, Mexico, Nauru, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Northern Mariana Islands, Saint-Paul Island, Seychelles, West Indies.
