Khaki Crims And Desperadoes

Author : Russell Robinson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781742614151
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Khaki Crims and Desperadoes written by Russell Robinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Australia entered World War I, volunteers swarmed to enlistment centres in their thousands.Among the recruits, however, were criminals with extensive police records - hardened men, fresh out of jail or on the run from the law, or fleeing family responsibilities or debts. Once in uniform, some became persistent deserters to avoid being sent to the front. Others showed great courage under fire, and were awarded medals.But, for many of these criminals, the war was a chance to hone their skills for use in the criminal underworld on their return. Their military training was a backdrop, a chance to expand their unlawful enterprises overseas. This is the story of those khaki crims and desperadoes.

Author : Russell Robinson
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 174351817X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Khaki Crims and Desperadoes written by Russell Robinson and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Australia entered World War I, volunteers swarmed to enlistment centres in their thousands. But among the recruits were criminals with extensive police records. Some had assumed false names to start lives afresh; others made no secret of their criminal histories. They were hardened criminals, fresh out of jail or on the run from the law, or fleeing family responsibilities or debts. Once in uniform, some became persistent deserters, fleeing the training depots before embarkation. Those who did make it overseas spent much of the time going AWL to avoid being sent to the front. There were some who showed great courage and endeavour while under fire, and were awarded medals and citations. In most cases, however, the encouragement failed to distract them from their misbehaviour. Others used their military training to expand their unlawful enterprises overseas, joining gangs of like-minded desperate diggers. And then there were those who saw the war as a chance to hone their skills for use in the criminal underworld on their return. They were Australia's khaki crims and desperadoes.

Author : G. S. Willmott
Publisher : Crabtree Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 064511667X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangsters & Whores written by G. S. Willmott and published by Crabtree Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangsters & Whores is a romp through some of the more colourful characters of Australian history. G.S. Willmott tells their stories with his trademark mix of dramatisation and fact, embellishing them with the dialogue and vintage photos, facts, figures and a sly sense of humour. This is not Ned Kelly country - this is the stamping ground of notorious madam Tilly Devine, her violent husband Big Jim, her rival Kate Leigh and Squizzy Taylor. Around them racket the gangs of the 1920s and '30s, shooting, slashing, swearing, stealing and terrorising the locals. Feuds and vendettas, blood and sly grog - it's all here. Who got murdered in his bed during a bout of flu? Who went AWOL so often he was more out of the war than in it? Who stole a shop-load of clothing for his girlfriend? Don't know? Find out, in Gangsters & Whores. From the turbulent times in Australia, the story moves to the US and then to Britain, piling more facts, figures and local colour onto the foundation. More fun than a run through the gauntlet but similarly buffeting... Gangsters & Whores is an unforgettable visit to the days of yore (and a quick glimpse into the equally lively resent as the author brings us up to date.) - Sally Odgers, Editor

Author : Ruth E. Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Camp Desperadoes written by Ruth E. Mather and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Brodribb Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Remarkable Criminals written by Henry Brodribb Irving and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olive L. C. Haynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646038735
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are Here, Too written by Olive L. C. Haynes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An army nursing sister's account of overseas duty in World War I, and her marriage to an Australian officer prior to repatriation. Olive Haynes's letters and diaries were collected and prepared for publication by her daughter, Margaret Young. Another daughter, Phyll, to whom the book is dedicated, was a Down Sydnrome victim.

Author : Henry Clay Moorehead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tan-gó-ru-a: an Historical Drama written by Henry Clay Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jesse Fink
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538155583
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pure Narco written by Jesse Fink and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a quarter century, Luis Antonio Navia worked as a high-level cocaine transporter for all of the major Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel, and flooded the United States and Europe with cocaine before his dramatic arrest in Venezuela in 2000 during the 12-nation Operation Journey. The story of Navia’s rise, fall, takedown, imprisonment, and redemption is expertly researched and told by acclaimed biographer Jesse Fink, who has gathered interviews with Navia, Navia’s family, and a dozen law-enforcement agents in the United States and Great Britain from agencies such as the DEA, ICE and Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise (now Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs). Told in vivid detail, this true crime story will captivate the reader from start to finish.

Author : Diane Wilson
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603580417
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Unreasonable Woman written by Diane Wilson and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches a campaign against a multibillion-dollar corporation that has been covering up spills, silencing workers, flouting the EPA, and dumping lethal ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride into the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. In an epic tale of bravery, Wilson takes her fight to the courts, to the gates of the chemical plant, and to the halls of power in Austin. Along the way she meets with scorn, bribery, character assassination, and death threats. Finally Wilson realizes that she must break the law to win justice: She resorts to nonviolent disobedience, direct action, and hunger strikes. Wilson's vivid South Texas dialogue resides somewhere between Alice Walker and William Faulkner, and her dazzling prose brings to mind the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, replete with dreams and prophecies.

Author : James Morton
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9781742610559
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shotgun and Standover written by James Morton and published by Pan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few names in Australian criminal history are as redolent as the Painters and Dockers. They were a union gone to the bad. From their outset in the early years of the 20th Century, they attracted more than their fair share of shady waterfront characters, and by the 1960s, '70s and '80s they had become a fully fledged criminal fraternity of some of the most violent and dangerous men in Australia. Standover, smuggling, gambling, prostitution and drugs were the daily trade of the Painters and Dockers, whilst arguments and old scores were more often than not settled with the lethal blast of a sawn-off shotgun. From famous criminals of the past such as Squizzy Tailor, through the recent gangland wars in Melbourne, the story of the Painters and Dockers touches almost every part of our violent and bloody underworld history. Their members and associates are a rollcall of some of Australia's most brutal and violent offenders: Brian and Les Kane, Ray Bennett, Billy Longley and the Moran family among many others. Written by James Morton, author of the bestselling Gangland Australia (MUP 2008) and Russell Robinson, Shotgun and Standover brilliantly tells the story of the Painters and Dockers in a definitive work of true crime.