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September 28, 2023

The Australian Army in World War II

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Free Download Carlos Chagas, "The Australian Army in World War II"
English | 2007 | pages: 66 | ISBN: 1846031230 | PDF | 3,7 mb
Osprey’s examination of the Australian army andits involvement in World War II (1939-1945). The Australian infantry were amongst the Commonwealth’s toughest and most widely traveled infantry, serving in campaigns including Syria, Greece, Cyprus, Crete, Libya, Egypt, New Guinea, and the South West Pacific. Their fearsome fighting reputation was earned first against the Afrika Corps in the Libyan Desert, and then in the hellish conditions of New Guinea, where they held out against the Japanese invasion.

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September 28, 2023

Australian Caves and Karst Systems

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Free Download Australian Caves and Karst Systems by John Webb, Susan White, Garry K. Smith
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 395 Pages | ISBN : 3031242661 | 319 MB
This book, part of the series Cave and Karst Systems of the World, begins with a review of the interaction between people and caves in Australia (including conservation), followed by descriptions of the spectacular cave diving sites, before comprehensively covering all the major carbonate and noncarbonate karst areas, subdivided by rock type and region, and including the origin of the caves. This is followed by broad overviews of cave minerals and speleothems, cave biology and cave fossils. Each section was written by one or more specialists in the topic and is illustrated by clear diagrams and superb colour photos. The book emphasises the unique aspects of the Australian karst, including the variability in the age of the caves (very old to very young) and the impact of isolation on the stygofauna, as well as the vertebrate fossils preserved in the caves. Written in an easy-to-read style, the book is a primary reference guide to Australian karst and represents a valuable asset for anyone interested in the topic, not only cavers and academics.

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September 19, 2023

Semut The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

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Free Download Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell, Dorje Swallow, Penguin Random House Australia Audio
English | 2012 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0933HBG3R | MP3@128 Kbps | Duration: 13:53 h | 795 Mb
March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island’s Indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most speak next to no Borneo languages and know little about Dayaks, other than that they were once headhunters who might kill them on arrival. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face.
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than 100 Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on two of Borneo’s great rivers – the Baram and Rejang – the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II’s and Semut III’s brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation.

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