Peter Rees: 6 books

Book cover of Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness

The remarkable life of Charles Bean, Australia's greatest war correspondent

by Peter Rees
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015

'Peter Rees has done what no one else has managed: read the vast Bean archive and get inside the head of the most influential figure in Australia's military history. Rees's superb book shows how Bean bore witness to Australia's Great War.' - Professor Peter Stanley 'Part sophisticated military...
Book cover of The Anzac Girls

The Anzac Girls

The extraordinary story of our World War I nurses

by Peter Rees
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014

By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never...
Book cover of Lancaster Men

Lancaster Men

The Aussie heroes of Bomber Command

by Peter Rees
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

More than 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who undertook some of the most dangerous operations of World War II. They flew raid after raid over France and Germany knowing that the odds were against them. Stretched to breaking point, nearly 3500 died...
Book cover of The Missing Man

The Missing Man

From the Outback to Tarakan, the Powerful Story of Len Waters, the RAAF's Only WWII Aboriginal Fighter Pilot

by Peter Rees
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018

"You were the master of the machine . . . you were an airman." —Flying Officer Bob Crawford Len Waters was a Kamilaroi man. Born on an Aboriginal reserve, he left school at 13 and by 20 was piloting a RAAF Kittyhawk fighter with 78 Squadron in the lethal skies over the Pacific in...
Book cover of Desert Boys

Desert Boys

Australians at war from Beersheba to Tobruk and El Alamein

by Peter Rees
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

'As gritty as it is real. An amazing book about ordinary Australians made extraordinary by the times they lived through . . .' - Peter FitzSimons About 1300 Australians died in the desert campaigns of World War I, while another 3500 died in North Africa and the Middle East during World War...
Book cover of Cognition Switch #2
by Martin Rees, Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas Issue #2: January 2019 Featuring Ideas by:  Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Martin Rees, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, and Henry Cowles
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