Bøger af Tom Lewis

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In 1942 the air defence of the northern Australian frontier town of Darwin was operated by airmen from the United States. Flying P-40E Warhawks, the pilots of the 49th Fighter Group fought a brave and innovative campaign against a stronger enemy that did much to safeguard Australia in its darkest hour.

Uncovers the untold stories of the Australian Defence Force's crucial role in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, Australia's most devastating disaster.Cyclone Tracy was one of the most damaging disasters to ever impact Australia. The story of the terrible night of Christmas Eve 1974 has been told before, but the involvement of the Australian Defence Force has been under-emphasised.This book rectifies that by revealing the untold stories of those in uniform. Men and women of all three services experienced the cyclone, including the crew of HMAS Arrow which sank with the loss of two lives.The first outsiders to reach the shattered city flew in on RAAF aircraft, which quickly began flying out evacuees. Then the Navy embarked on its largest peacetime operation with the majority of the fleet including the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne deploying to Darwin. For the first month the Navy took the lead in cleaning up the city before a larger and better equipped Army force took over.The book argues strongly that the National Emergency Medal should be bestowed on all uniformed people involved, including civilians such as police, and that a prominent and fitting memorial be established in Darwin.Cyclone Warriors also dispels myths, and for the first time with extensive research provides the true number of fatalities incurred when Tracy tore apart Darwin.Tom Lewis is one of Australia's foremost military historians having written over twenty books. He is a former naval officer and long time resident of Darwin.

"Blood And Pus" by Tom Lewis is a comedy adventure set in north Morocco in 1925.Not suitable for children. Contains some swearing. Slight sexual content. Descriptions of violence.Résumé September, 1925. The Spanish are trying to raise their flag once more over the northern Moroccan hills. The red and gold flag that was torn down by the formidable fighters of the Rif.The Spanish conscript troops just want to go home. Red and gold? Blood and pus, they grumble, as the stretcher cases pass.The volunteers of La Legión don't mind. Their motto is "Viva la Muerte!" ("Long Live Death!").Sargento Bellaco is never pleased about anything. But he is pleased about one thing. The Legión used to be full of foreigners. English, Russians, all sorts. They're all gone now.Teniente Alva is unhappy. Every time the rifianos attack, he loses men. The rifianos lose more. Many more. But they can replace their losses. He can not.It is almost dark. And he has a mountain of paperwork to catch up on.Hakinh is a man of the desert. The real desert, not the swamps that some call desert.He has a nose for many things. For water, for food, for a really nicely shaped, that is to say, flat, piece of ground, for all things that should be cherished. And for blasphemy, licentiousness, uncleanness and profanity, that should be destroyed. Then there is the Englishman...The Englishman. The foreigner. The Englishman. The paperwork! The Englishman.... the infidel.And there is B.C. Azabi, Congressman for Targist, Minister for Mixed Bathing.From the trenches of Monte Malmusi we go, by way of the crazy streets of the Riffian capital Ajdir, to the showpiece coastal town, shop window to the world of the Rif Republic, where everything is Modern and Normal.Mercenary Captain Collick and his sidekick De Lugny are there. They aren't interested in the cinema, or the department store, or the telephones.The Riffians have gold. Lots of gold. They have to keep it somewhere. And Collick knows where.Then there is the Englishman. The prisoner. He has had his uses. But he is beginning to become... a nuisance.

Fenix is a young Scarlet Macaw. Today is her first time flying and she loves it. Being so young, Fenix has a lot to learn. While flying around with her family she meets other animals that live nearby. She learns those different animals like different things. All text from this story is printed in both English and Spanish as the original purpose of this story is to support bilingualism in children while also giving them a bit of information about local wildlife of Costa Rica. The original concept of this book is for distribution to local children living near the ARA Project in Costa Rica at no cost to them or their families to aid in conversational English, although it can also aid English speakers in conversational Spanish.

This stylistically varied assembly of poems by Tom Lewis addresses the issues that concern the modern minded man of today. Whether it be television scheduling, suitable routes for walking expeditions, how to choose and present your spare time activity, Christian devotional requirements, or the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939), Tom Lewis is not afraid to confront the contemporary themes that matter.And it all ends with a good sing song.

So did not the atomic weapons bring about a great peace? Since the initial grateful acknowledgement of the success of the A-bomb attacks in ending World War II, there has been a steady reversal of opinion and sentiment: from a first hearty appreciation to a condemnation by many, of the United States for its actions. Atomic Salvation investigates the full situation of the times to a previously unplumbed depth. It examines documents from both Japanese and Allied sources, but it uses logical in-depth analysis to extend beyond the mere recounting of statistics. It charts the full extent of the possible casualties on both sides if a conventional assault akin to D-Day had gone ahead. The work is concerned solely with the military necessity to use the bombs, but it also investigates why that necessity has been increasingly challenged over the successive decades. Controversially, the book shows that the Japanese nation would have lost many millions of their people â¿" likely around 28 million â¿" if the nation had been attacked in the manner by which German was defeated: by amphibious assault; artillery and air attacks preceding infantry insertion, and finally by subduing the last of the defenders of the enemy capital. From the other side, the book investigates the enormous political pressure placed on America as a result of their military situation. The USA's Truman Administration had little choice but to use the new weapon given the more than a million deaths Allied forces would undoubtedly have suffered through conventional assault. Through investigation of reactions then and since, Atomic Salvation charts reaction to the bombings. It looks briefly at a range of reactions through the decades and shows that there has been relentless pressure on the world to condemn what at the time

Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Bombers North presents for the first time the full story of a little-known bomber offensive waged from remote northern Australia during 1942-1945.

An engaging history of the people and policies that profoundly transformed the American landscape-and the daily lives of Americans.