patsy adam smith deceased (6 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. London: Seal Books, 1998 UsedPAPERBACK EDITIONCREASES TO SPINE AND COVER Patricia Jean Adam-Smith, AO, OBE was an Australian author, historian and servicewoman She was a prolific writer on a range of subjects covering history, folklore and the preservation of national traditions, and wrote a two-part autobiography Her other notable works include The Anzacs, Australian Women at War and Prisoners of War.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. SMALL SIZE PAPERBACK-: HarperCollins, Not recorded UsedPAPERBACK EDITION -SLIGHT CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians Death struck so fast there was not time for escape or burial And when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European CampaignPatsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about the First World War Soldiers sought her out to tell her why they went, what they saw, and how they felt about that great holocaust Their simple accounts are more vivid than any novel; the years have not dimmed their memories of lost comrades and the horrors of war These are the extraordinary experiences of ordinary men - and they strike to the heartWinner of the Age Book of the Year award when first published in 1978, The Anzacs remains unrivalled as the classic account of Australia's involvement in the First World War.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. PAPERBACK EDITIONCREASES TO SPINE AND COVERLondon: Penguin Random House, 1997 Used The traditional image of a prisoner of war is that of an emaciated, diseased and ill-treated figure humiliated by incarceration Prisoners of Warchallenges this image Using dozens of interviews with former POWs, Patsy Adam-Smith shows the strength and courage of Australians taken prisoner in World War I, World War II and the Korean War Says Patsy- 'This book has not been written for ex-prisoners- they know the homesickness of exile, the tyranny of bondage; it was written for those people of today who know little of the experiences of these men and women, of their courage, endurance and pain It has been written for the generations to come'.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. London: Penguin, 1998. Used. Patricia Jean Smith and her sister, Miss Mickie, grew up as railway children, their parents a station-mistress and a fettler. The catalogue of towns they lived in reverberates with the once-familiar clatter of metal and steam, but it was the tiny one-pub town of Waaia, in the centre of Victoria's wheat-rich Goulburn Valley, that kept drawing them back.These were days of yabbying and rabbiting, of bush girls riding bareback on wilful ponies, and of the tin-lizzies that transformed the Mallee forever. It was a time for learning, for devouring books and for satisfying a powerful thirst for knowledge. And then it was a time for war.Hear the Train Blow tells of Patsy Adam-Smith's classic upbringing during the Great Depression. It is a celebration of the ordinary people of Australia, and of a life that no longer exists.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Chatto & Windus, 1983 . Used. Account of life aboard trading vessels in Bass Strait; seal and mutton bird industries of Furneaux Group; Tasmanian Aboriginal families; Wybalenna settlement on Flinders Island.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Melbourne, Vic: Nelson, 1982. Used. History of shearing, strikes of 1890s, unionism, mateship, shearer's life to shearing as a sport.