Book Description
The story behind the man central to how Australia planned for, and fought in, WWI.
Author : John Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107009502
The story behind the man central to how Australia planned for, and fought in, WWI.
Author : Christopher Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1107093481
Christopher Wray explores the impact the battle of Pozières has had on Australia, and how it is remembered today.
Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0143783300
In the Trenches of Hell On July 19, 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial describes as 'the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history. Just days later, three Australian Divisions attacked German positions at nearby Pozières, and over the next six weeks they suffered another 23,000 casualties. Of that bitter battle, the great Australian war correspondent Charles Bean would write, "The field of Pozières is more consecrated by Australian fighting and more hallowed by Australian blood than any field which has ever existed . . ." Yet the sad truth is that, nearly a century on from those battles, Australians know only a fraction of what occurred. This book brings the battles back to life and puts the reader in the moment, illustrating both the heroism displayed and the insanity of the British plan. With his extraordinary vigour and commitment to research, Peter FitzSimons shows why this is a story about which all Australians can be proud. And angry.
Author : Jeffrey Grey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1139468286
A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service on Australia and Australians. It discusses the development of the armed forces as institutions and examines the relationship between governments and military policy. This book is a revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. It is the only comprehensive, single-volume treatment of the role and development of Australia's military and their involvement in war and peace across the span of Australia's modern history. It concludes with consideration of Australian involvement in its region and more widely since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the waging of the global war on terror.
Author : Murray Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781741361919
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 history, part story for a nation, Peter Rees provides a warm and deeply moving portrait of Charles Bean, one of the greatest Australians of the twentieth century.' - Michael McKernan Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the journalist who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the historian who did so much to create the Anzac legend and shape the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation. He is the patriot who was central to the establishment of one of this country's most important cultural institutions, the Australian War Memorial. Yet we know so little about him as a man. Bearing Witness rectifies that omission in our national biography. This is the first complete portrait of Charles Bean. It is the story of a boy from Bathurst and his search for truth: in the bush, on the battlefield and in the writing of the official history of Australia's involvement in World War I. But beyond this, it is a powerful and detailed exploration of his life, his accomplishments and a marriage that sustained and enriched him. Insightful, unexpected and compelling, Bearing Witness gives rich personality to a remarkable life.
Author : Robert C. Stevenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 110702868X
In 1915 the 1st Australian Division led the way ashore at Gallipoli. In 1916 it achieved the first Australian victory on the Western Front at Pozières. It was still serving with distinction in the battles that led to the defeat of the German army in 1918. To Win the Battle explains how the division rose from obscurity to forge a reputation as one of the great fighting formations of the British Empire during the First World War, forming a central part of the Anzac legend. Drawing on primary sources as well as recent scholarship, this fresh approach suggests that the early reputation of Australia's premier division was probably higher than its performance warranted. Robert Stevenson shows that the division's later success was founded on the capacity of its commanders to administer, train and adapt to the changing conditions on the battlefield, rather than on the innate qualities of its soldiers.
Author : E. George Marks
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 1982
Category : France
ISBN : 9780702217203
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : 9780716623434
Author : Frank Arthur Mumby
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 1915
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :