All posts tagged "WWII"
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1.3KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Snapshots from Home
This play was commissioned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII. In 1996 it won an Australian Writers’ Guild award for author Margery Forde. The play is written around memories gathered from ordinary Queenslanders who lived through the difficult war years – both at home or abroad.
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1.7KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: A Stitch In Time: A Knitting Cabaret
A Stitch In Time is a terrific cabaret of knitting songs and quirky facts from WWI and WWII, researched, developed and presented by the Canadian singer, Melanie Gall
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1.3KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Dietrich: Natural Duty
Dietrich recalls her journey from student to film star, then her life in America and her war work.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Swish of the Curtain, by Pamela Brown
The re-release of a classic in children's literature. Seven children discover a disused, derelict building and turn it into a theatre, writing and producing their own plays to raise money for their local church.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Captured Lives, by Peter Monteath
Peer behind the barbed wire drawn around people deemed threats to Australia's security during the two world wars. Civilians from enemy nations, even if born in Australia, were subjects of suspicion and locked away in internment camps as prisoners-of-war, some shipped from the other side of the world.
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909ArtsCabaret Festival Review: The Girl who Jumped off the Hollywood Sign
Written and performed by Joanne Hartstone this cabaret show is fabulous – it’s entertaining, moving, amusing, has some great songs but more than anything it is thought provoking. There really was a woman who jumped off the Hollywood sign. Peg Entwistle jumped off the Hollywood sign in 1932. Although a successful performer on Broadway after less than a year in Los Angeles she was dead.
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877Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Juliet Code, by Christine Wells
In an attempt to help find her colleague's sister and possibly bring down the Nazi who held her captive, British agent Juliet is forced to relive her role in the war.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: ATA Girl, by Big Finish
A dramatic re-telling of (largely fictional) events involving the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) who piloted new planes to the airfields for the British Army in World War 2 for the men to take into battle.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Digger, by Mike Dumbleton, Illustrated by Robin Cowcher
Young Annie names her stuffed Kangaroo 'Digger' and gives him to her older brother as he leaves for war. In France, 1918, Digger & her brother are cared for by a young French girl named Colette.
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901Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Eleanor’s Story: Home is the Stranger
This show is a sequel to Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany and continues the story of Eleanor Ramrath Garner after she returns to America after 7 years in war torn Berlin. It is written and performed with great feeling by Eleanor’s granddaughter Ingrid Garner.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Scorched Earth, edited by Sue Rosen
In WW2, the Australian Army was given full authority to implement a Scorched Earth policy in the event of invasion. This is the record of that policy, uncovered by researcher Sue Rosen.
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2.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Children of Willesden Lane, by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, adapted by Emil Sher
The biography of Lisa Jura, Jewish a child prodigy as a pianist who lived a comfortable life in Vienna until the Nazis came to power in the 1930s.
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998Books & LiteratureBook Review: Bomber Boys, by Marianne Van Velzen
The extraordinary true adventures of a group of airmen who escaped the Japanese and became the RAAF's celebrated 18th Squadron during World Ward II.
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597Film & TVFilm Review: Churchill
A biopic about Winston Churchill, who lead the UK through some of it's darkest times in modern history and who continues to divide historians.
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497Film & TVFilm Review: Wonder Woman
In the 1940s, an Amazonian princess living on a tropical island with her powerfully gifted people helps a military pilot who washes ashore to fight the Nazis.
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657Books & LiteratureBook Review: Goth, by Graham Kenyon
12 year old Ben lives with his father, mother and brother... and more recently, something he believes has moved in to the cellar beneath the stairs...
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2.1KFilm & TVDVD Review: Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
With the help of the Resistance, a special ops team of allied soldiers are sent behind enemy lines to extract the man destined to lead a post-war Germany.
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716Film & TVFilm Review: Hacksaw Ridge
A WWII US army medic refuses to bear arms but does his best to save the lives of his comrades until their fate is in his hands during the Battle of Okinawa.
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843Books & LiteratureBook Review: 101 Nights, by Ray Ollis
A newly edited edition of Ray Ollis’ fictionalised memoir of his time in the RAF Bomber Command, first published in 1957 and drawing on his own memories, log books and diaries.
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703Film & TVFilm Review: Labyrinth of Lies
The true story of a prosecutor and a journalist in post-war Germany who try to expose their country's denial of the Nazi atrocities in Auschwitz & other camps.
