A Bastard of a Place The Australians in Papua

 
A Bastard of a Place The Australians in Papua
Free Download Peter Brune, "A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1741144035 | EPUB | pages: 724 | 8.6 mb
The story of the five battles that changed Australia forever, this compelling narrative incorporates hundreds of interviews with the soldiers who fought at Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona, Buna, and Sanananda in 1942 and 1943. Revealed are the very real and engaging experiences of Generals MacArthur and Blamey and other senior Australian commanders who sacrificed many of their senior field officers as scapegoats to protect their own positions, assisted in the making of false legends, and lied about the outcome of the men who fought the battles.


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The Australians at Geneva Internationalist Diplomacy in the Interwar Years

 
The Australians at Geneva Internationalist Diplomacy in the Interwar Years
The Australians at Geneva: Internationalist Diplomacy in the Interwar Years by James Cotton
English | November 1, 2022 | ISBN: 0522878997 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.5 MB
After the dubious justice of the Treaty of Versailles and the turmoil of the interwar years, the League of Nations is mainly remembered as a body that failed to create mechanisms that might have forestalled the horrors of Nazism, fascism, and the Second World War. It has understandably been overshadowed by the United Nations, that larger, more globally representative body which grew from the League, and which was founded on more unequivocally noble principles in the aftermath of a clear-cut victory of good over evil.


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