Rosenberg Publishing: 54 books
by Peter Golding
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The career of Allan Percy Fleming (1912- 2001)—teacher, soldier,journalist, trade commissioner, senior bureaucrat, librarian, counter terrorist—was characterised by the lack of 'appropriate' training.'I was a demonstration, he once remarked,'of the art of how to do things when unqualified.
by Barnett, David
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
What was it like to drive a steam locomotive? This book tells the ups and downs, mishaps and triumphs of life on the footplate. The author worked as first a trainee then as an engineman fireman on the footplates of locomotives in Western Victoria in the 60s at a time when bumper wheat harvests saw...
Angels in the Outback
The Australian Inland Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Just before World War I when the Australian outback suffered with the decline of its goldmines and the hard times on its pastoral runs, a young Victorian arrived to see how he could help. The white inhabitants of Central Australia were few, and were rarely if ever visited by clergymen, doctors or nurses....
Blood Revenge
Murder on the Hawkesbury 1799
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Blood Revenge examines the first time that white men were held to account in a criminal court of New South Wales for killing Australian Aborigines. It happened in 1799, just 11 years after the New South Wales colony began. This book answers the disturbing question: Why were five men found guilty of...
Crevasse Roulette
The First Trans-Antarctic Crossing 1957-58
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The British Commonwealth-sponsored Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) of 195758, under the leadership of Dr Vivian Fuchs, completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. A pioneering and hazardous journey, and not without controversial elements, it also included scientists participating...
Walk across Australia
The First Solo Crossing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
David Mason walked across Australia because no-one else had done it. He did it on is own with no support crew. After his experiences in the French Foreign Legion it was at once a challenge and a way to reconnect with life, people and Australia. In taking on the challenge he sought to raise funds for...
More than a Life
John Meredith and the Fight for Australian Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Meredith was for decades the leading warrior in the fight to preserve and celebrate Australia’s unique folk heritage. Between 1953 and 1994 he recorded from ordinary Australians thousands of songs, tunes, recitations, folk medicines, superstitions, sayings and yarns, documenting a rich canon of...
30 Days on Australia's Railways
A Diary of September Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
An entertaining look at railway events in Australia in the month of September—from 1848, when a meeting was called to start a railway company in New South Wales, to 2013, when the great Bayer-Garrett AD6029 steam engine was restored to working order.Author David Burke has crafted a ‘diary’ which...
Tiger Territory
The Untold Story of the Royal Australian Navy from 1948 to 1971
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Between 1948 and 1971 ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy served with almost unnoticed distinction in defending the newly emerging nations of Malaya, Malaysia and Singapore. In this period of intense diplomatic and military activity in a potentially volatile region, Australia developed its engagement...
by Sheila Allan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sheila Bruhn (née Allan) was born in Malaysia before the outbreak of WWII. She was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Singapore in 1941, at the age of seventeen, For the next three and a half years she was a prisoner of the Japanese in Changi Prison and Sime Road Camp. This book is the moving personal...
by Ian Pfennigwerth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
By 1945, General MacArthurs forces had advanced from Papua to the Philippines and to Borneo. The vast majority of the troops, supplies, and equipment for this campaign were transported by sea, and MacArthurs success was based on 22 amphibious assaults. Soldiers and Marines did the ground fighting and...
Wings of Destiny
Charles Learmonth DFC and the Air War in New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Wing Commander Charles Learmonth, DFC and Bar, was a well-known flyer in World War II, who was based in Pearce, WA, and involved in the air search for HMAS Sydney. He fought in the skies of New Guinea, flying a twin-engine Boston attack bomber named Shes Apples. In January 1944 the then Commanding Officer...
Hell Hope and Heroes
Life in the Field Ambulance in World War 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Roy Ramsay worked with the Field Ambulance in Egypt, on hospital ships evacuating the wound and sick from Gallipoli in WWI. He served on the Western Front, enduring the shocking physical conditions of trench warfare, and the struggle to retrieve the injured and wounded and get them back for medical attention. These war memoirs cover the whole course of the war until the Armistice.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
The Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Out of Sight, Out of Mind identifies and dispels various myths which have developed around the importance of sea transport and logistical support, and argues for a new appreciation of the service of the 13,000 members of the RAN who participated in this vitally important task. Many of the illustrations...