In 1940 a seventeen year old girl called Carys Harding Browne comes of age in Adelaide, Australia. At St Mark's College, young, clever men meet together to share their love of poetry. However by December 1940, St Mark's College is leased to the Royal Australian Air Force as an embarkation depot. The Second World War is in earnest.
A compelling account of a young man's flying experiences over the north Atlantic during WW2. Joining the RAF in October 1940 aged 21 Jack is sent to Canada to learn to fly. On becoming a Pilot/Navigator he joins Coastal Command on Liberators based in Iceland, renowned for its bad weather. The difficulties encountered hunting U-boats are relived.
Ion Idriess documents the mysteries and customs of the Aboriginal people from Oenopelli in the Kimberley through Northb Queensland and on to the Torres Strait Islands. First published in 1955, now in Imprint Classics.
In the 23rd edition of this Imprint Classic, Ion Idriess tells of his beginnings, of his childhood in Lismore, Tamworth and Broken Hill, of his apprenticeship in bushcraft, and of the growing love for the Australian Outback which illumines all his work. He tells of the jobs he had, - as rouseabout, horse breaker, horse tailer, shearer - and of his ......
With the success of The Desert Column in 1932, Idriess wrote this series of mini-biographies on Australia's World War One Flying aces - John Duigan, Harry Cobby, Ross Smith, Oswald Watt, Gordon Taylor, Frank McNamara - our first V.C. aviator, and the post war acrobatics of Macintosh and Paper. Introducing the lot with a background piece on ......
May God Avenge Their Blood consists of three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks translated for the first time into English. With narrative flair and vivid detail, Bryks brilliantly captures interwar Jewish life in his hometown of Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland, the early days of World War II, and his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps.
This is an open and frank account of how someone from a railway family in a small East Midlands town went on to become a
Cabinet Minister serving in the Ministry of Defence as Britain conducted difficult and demanding operations in Sierra Leone,
Afghanistan and Iraq. It sets out his political career from his earliest days knocking on doors for the ......
In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as “Gouger” for the Bulletin.In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler’s axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the ......
