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Shadows of Anzac: An Intimate History of Gallipoli by David W. Cameron
Category: History | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser.
On 25 April 1915, with the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) below the slopes of Sari Bair on the Gallipoli peninsula, the ANZAC legend was born. Nine months later, having suffered thousands of casualties from disease, hand-to-hand fighting, bombing, sniping and forlorn charge ...Show more
Sorry, Lads, But the Order is to Go: The August Offensive, Gallipoli: 1915 by David W. Cameron
Category: Military
The August Offensive was the last attempt by the Allied forces to break the stalemate with the Turkish defenders that had developed since the Anzac landings in late April 1915. It resulted in some of the bloodiest battles on the Gallipoli peninsula - which included the battles for Leane's Trench, Lone P ...Show more
The August Offensive: At ANZAC, 1915 by David W. Cameron
Category: Australian History | Series: Big Sky Publishing
The August offensive or Anzac Breakout at Gallipoli saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the landing as Commonwealth and Turkish troops fought desperate battles at Lone Pine, German Officers' Trench, Turkish Quinn's the Chessboard, the Nek, Chunuk Bair, the Farm, Hill Q and Hill 971.
The Battle For Lone Pine by David Cameron
Category: Military
Surprisingly, as we near the 100th anniversary of the legendary Gallipoli campaign, this is the first book solely dedicated to one of its key battles - that at Lone Pine, where Australian and Turkish soldiers fought an ultimately futile battle that claimed thousands of lives in incredibly close quarters ...Show more
The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942 by David W. Cameron
Category: History
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, an ...Show more
The Battle for Lone Pine by David W. Cameron
Category: Military
Most Australian have heard of Lone Pine. Too few know why. Over four days in August 1915, Australians and Turks were thrown into some of the fiercest fighting of the war, on a small plateau in Gallipoli known as Lone Pine. Thousands of lives were lost. Seven of Australia's nine Gallipoli VCs were earned ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
Category: Military
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation near Long Tan, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, became the stage for one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War involving Australian troops - and one of the most significant battles during the Vietnam War for the Australian Task Force. Th ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
Category: History
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops fought one of their bloodiest, most significant battles of the Vietnam War.The Australians had arrived at Nui Dat four months earlier to open up the province. While out on patrol, Delta Compan ...Show more
The Battles for Kokoda Plateau: Three Weeks of Hell Defending the Gateway to the Owen Stanleys by David W. Cameron
Category: History
A powerful new insight into the critical first weeks of fighting to halt the Japanese advance across Papua New Guinea to Port Moresby.
The Charge by David Cameron
Category: History
The Turkish Gaza-Beersheba line extended for 40 kilometres between the Turkish bastion of Gaza and the heavily fortified town of Beersheba, and stopped any Allied advance into Palestine proper. It needed to be breached, and Beersheba - on the eastern flank of this line - became the scene of the historic ...Show more
Two-Way Science - An Integrated Learning Program for Aboriginal Desert Schools by Chris Deslandes; Sally Deslandes; David Broun; Cameron Hugh; Fiona Walsh; Felicity Bradshaw; Joanna Griffith
Category: Languages and Reference
Two-way Science: An Integrated Learning Program for Aboriginal Desert Schools supports remote Indigenous schools and communities to develop integrated learning programs connecting the cultural knowledge of the local community with Western science and the Australian curriculum. A Two-way Science appro ...Show more
Understanding Nutrition with Student Resource Access 12 Months by Eleanor Whitney; Sharon Rady Rolfes; Tim Crowe; David Cameron Smith; Adam Walsh
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Building upon Ellie Whitney and Sharon Rady Rolfes' classic text, this third Australian and New Zealand edition of Understanding Nutrition is a practical and engaging introduction to the core principles of nutrition. A thorough introductory guide, this text will equip students with the knowledge and ski ...Show more