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The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, 1941-45
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, 1941-45

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book focuses on the British Commonwealth armies in SE Asia and the SW Pacific during the Second World War, which, following the disastrous Malayan and Burma campaigns, had to hurriedly re-train, re-equip and re-organise their demoralised troops to fight a conventional jungle war against the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). British, Indian and Australian troops faced formidable problems conducting operations across inaccessible, rugged and jungle-covered mountains on the borders of Burma, in New Guinea and on the islands of the SW Pacific. Yet within a remarkably short time they adapted to the exigencies of conventional jungle warfare and later inflicted shattering defeats on the Japanese. ...

All Things to All People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 58

All Things to All People

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Gazetteer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1052

Gazetteer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1955
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Britain's Greatest Defeat
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Britain's Greatest Defeat

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-01-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

New in paperback, The pre-eminent history of a military disaster. A masterful analysis of events.

The Sportsmen of Changi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

The Sportsmen of Changi

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: UNSW Press

Australian prisoners of war playing sport, at times with their captors, does not fit the picture embedded in the popular imagination of horror and suffering in Japanese POW camps during WWII. But incredibly, sport flourished amidst the hellish conditions in these camps. The Sportsmen of Changi is a moving account of diggers for whom sport was not just a means to boost morale and an escape from a dreadful reality, but a way of feeling human in the face of inhuman suffering. Captives played Aussie Rules football at the infamous Changi Prison, and tennis on the Burmese side of the Burma-Thailand Railway. They played soccer, cricket, baseball or basketball and sometimes their prison guards even ...

The Army Medical Services
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

The Army Medical Services

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1956
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Missing Years
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

The Missing Years

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: UNSW Press

This is the gripping story of Captain Hugh Pilkington's disastrous Malaya campaign in which he was shot by a Japanese sniper, became a PoW while hospitalised in Singapore, then - with only one good arm - was packed off to work on the Thai-Burma Death Railway.

The War Against Japan: The loss of Singapore
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 688

The War Against Japan: The loss of Singapore

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1957
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Disappearance of Patrick Zhou
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

The Disappearance of Patrick Zhou

A young woman must solve the fifteen-year-old disappearance of her uncle. The Zhou-Guthrie company is a powerful one, with a palm oil fortune built on the suffering of others. One night, Patrick Zhou, the charismatic heir to the business, disappears en route to a conference, never to be seen again. Fifteen years later, Zhou-Guthrie is a failing dynasty. The matriarch, Doris Zhou, is on her deathbed. In her last lucid moments, Doris tasks her granddaughter, Layla, with finding out what happened to Patrick. To solve this mystery, Layla must uncover corporate espionage, environmental crimes and family secrets—perhaps intimately connected to the ghost stories Uncle Patrick told her years ago.

Colonial Reports - Annual
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 724

Colonial Reports - Annual

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1923
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Each number comprises the annual report of a different colony for a particular year.