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Book Synopsis Australians at The Great War 1914-1918 by : Australian War Memorial
Download or read book Australians at The Great War 1914-1918 written by Australian War Memorial and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's contribution to the Great War has become part of the core of its national identity, and this work from the Australian War Memorial's Peter Burness offers a compact, thoroughly-illustrated and authoritative survey of the founding of the ANZAC tradition. From the shores of Gallipoli, through the trenches of France and Belgium, to the Light Horse in the Middle East, Australians at the Great War: 1914-1918 showcases photographs, artworks, posters, maps and artefacts from the War Memorial's comprehensive archive, along with detailed historical and anecdotal passages. Both as a testament to the courage of Australians at war, and as a guide to Australia's cultural legacy, Australians at the Great War: 1914-1918 is the perfect introduction.
Download or read book The Broken Years written by Bill Gammage and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the diaries and letters of a thousand Australian soldiers to reconstruct with great sensitivity the valour and the tragedy of their experience. Shows how and why the Great War was to have profound effects on the attitudes and ideals of Australia as a nation.
Download or read book Broken Nation written by Joan Beaumont and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War was, for the majority of Australians, one that was fought at home. As casualties of this monstrous war mounted, they triggered a political crisis of unprecedented ferocity in Australian history. The fault-lines that emerged in 1916-18 around
Book Synopsis To Win the Battle by : Robert Stevenson
Download or read book To Win the Battle written by Robert Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how the 1st Australian Division became one of the great fighting formations of WWI.
Book Synopsis To Win the Battle by : Robert C. Stevenson
Download or read book To Win the Battle written by Robert C. Stevenson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis From Frontier to Frontline by : Norman S Cramp
Download or read book From Frontier to Frontline written by Norman S Cramp and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 400,000 Australians served in the military during the First World War. Of these, over 60,000 men lost their lives and another 137,000 were wounded. This had a massive impact on the young Australian nation with a population of just a few million.In each Australian state battalions were formed which became closely associated with men of that state or region. In this way the military history of most parts of Australia can be readily traced. The Northern Territory, however, was too small to have its own unit. Indeed there was not even a recruiting centre in the N.T. Men left to enlist in other states. For these reasons the WWI history of Territiorians has remained obscure.There were less than 1,000 European adults in the N.T. at the time war broke out, and as many as 300 enlisted - an incredibly high proportion. There is no better N.T. enlistment story than that of the famous Albert Borella, who went on to win the Victoria Cross. He walked 88 miles from Tennant Creek and then borrowed a horse to get to Darwin. He then got transport to Townsville where he enlisted. Such were the typically colourful methods used by young men to enlist from all areas across the N.T.From Frontier to Frontline is a unique record. Indeed, it is the only source naming the NT enlistees in WWI. A brief biography of each man is given, forming a very valuable source of Territorian history. Other chapters detail 19 gallantry decorations and a roll of honour naming the 67 Territorians who were killed in action or died of illness or wounds. There is also a chapter on the men returning home which includes some rich observations on the social and economic history of Darwin during the war and immediately thereafter.
Download or read book World War I written by Nicolas Brasch and published by Heinemann Library. This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series brings to life significant events of the past through the accounts of people who were there at the time - the eyewitnesses. See history through the eyes of the everyday Australians who lived it. Each book features interviews, diary and journal entries, newspaper articles and official documents. The emphasis is on presenting primary source material that offers different points of view on a single event, thus exposing the reader to a number of opinions and offering them the opportunity to draw their own conclusions based on the evidence. Suitable for 13+ year olds. World War I: 1914-1918 examines the causes of World War 1 and the devastating results of the conflict. It also explores the war's impact on the lives of Australian soldiers serving overseas, as well as those supporting the war effort at home. Specially selected extracts from primary sources bring this period of Australian history to life!
Book Synopsis The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-1918 by : F. M. Cutlack
Download or read book The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-1918 written by F. M. Cutlack and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hitherto rare volume of the Official History of Australia in the Great War, this is the History of the Australian Flying Corps on the western front and in the Middle Eastern theatres. Almost half of the text ( 12 of the 27 chapters) is devoted to the Australian air force in the skies over Mesopotamia (Iraq), Egypt, Jordan and Palestine, culminating, appropriately, in the Battle of Armageddon. The AFC arrived on the western front in 1917, and their first ‘blooding' was above the mud-clogged battlefield of third Ypres (Passchendaele). Australian airmen supported ground attacks in the Battle of Cambrai in November, and during the great German spring offensives in the following year. Australian bomber planes backed up the Allied counter-offensives which broke the Hindenburg Line in the summer and autumn of 1918. Illustrated by 32 maps and 54 photographs.
Download or read book 1914-1918 written by Lyn Macdonald and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 1991 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyn Macdonald has gathered an impressive array of contemporary accounts and illustrations ... covering all aspects of the war ... The author has drawn on the experiences of men who came to fight from far away, the Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and the Doughboys from the USA, as well as those of British Jocks and Tommies, and the book touches on subjects as diverse as propaganda, fear, morale, bravery, bawdiness, filth and frivolity, and the stark contrast between the attitudes of civilians at home and the men at the front.
Book Synopsis Story of the Seventeenth Battalion Aif in the Great War, 1914-1918 by : Lieut Col M. C. MacKenzie
Download or read book Story of the Seventeenth Battalion Aif in the Great War, 1914-1918 written by Lieut Col M. C. MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Australia the First World War remains the most costly conflict in terms of deaths and casualties. From a population of fewer than five million, 416,809 men enlisted, of which over 60,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner. In general terms with Australian unit histories the quality of authorship is very good, most of them share the common strength of making plentiful mention of the individual officers and men who served, fought, died, was wounded, or taken prisoner, or who came safely home at the end of it all. They are a prime source for genealogists and military historians.
Book Synopsis The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Volume XI - Australia During the War by : Ernest Scott
Download or read book The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Volume XI - Australia During the War written by Ernest Scott and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh volume of The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 is a companion to the earlier volumes that dealt with Australia's military operations. Scott's work covers the early unanimity with which the war was greeted, the growing unease at the cost of war, the anguish of the conscription referenda and the political turmoil that followed. Scott discusses censorship, the internment of aliens, the formation and equipment of Australia's forces and the development of a war economy. The Outbreak of War. The Political Scene. The Censorship. The Censorship (continued). The Enemy Within the Gates. The Governor-General. The Formation of Armies. The Formation of Armies (continued). The Equipment of Armies. Matters of Policy. Matters of Policy (continued). The First Conscription Referendum. Political Metamorphoses. Political Metamorphoses (continued). The Second Conscription Referendum. The Last Months of the War. Finance. Finance (continued). Australian Trade During the War. Australian Trade During the War (continued). Metals. The Wool Purchase. The Wheat Pool. Shipping. Pricing and Price Fixing. Labour Questions and the Industrial Ferment. Labour Questions and the Industrial Ferment (continued). The Patriotic Funds. The Peace Conference. The Peace Conference (continued). The Treaty and its Ratification. Repatriation. Repatriation (continued). Epilogue. The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australian involvement in the First World War. The series was edited by C.E.W. Bean, who also wrote six of the volumes, and was published between 1920 and 1942. The first seven volumes deal with the Australian Imperial Force while other volumes cover the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force at Rabaul, the Royal Australian Navy, the Australian Flying Corps and the home front; the final volume is a photographic record. Unlike other official histories that have been aimed at military staff, Bean intended the Australian history to be accessible to a non-military audience. The relatively small size of the Australian forces enabled the history to be presented in great detail, giving accounts of individual actions that would not have been possible when covering a larger force.
Book Synopsis Australia and the Great War 1914-1918 by : Leslie Lloyd Robson
Download or read book Australia and the Great War 1914-1918 written by Leslie Lloyd Robson and published by [South Melbourne] : Macmillan of Australia. This book was released on 1969 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great War, 1914-1918 by : Leonard Charles Frederick Turner
Download or read book The Great War, 1914-1918 written by Leonard Charles Frederick Turner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rural Australia and the Great War by : John McQuilton
Download or read book Rural Australia and the Great War written by John McQuilton and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the wartime experience of rural Australians during World War I, focusing on the country towns and hamlets of north-eastern Victoria. Demonstrates how the experience of the war was dramatically localised in rural areas, as its every aspect was shaped by individual journalists, councillors or leading local citizens. Details the impact of this intimacy on German inhabitants, who were known as trusted neighbours in rural communities, though reviled as 'the enemy' in the cities. Includes photographs, tables, notes, bibliography and index. Author is head of the history and politics program at the University of Wollongong.
Download or read book The AIF in Battle written by Jean Bou and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the First World War the combat formations of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in both France and the Middle East were considered among the British Empire’s most effective troops. While sometimes a source of pride and not a little boasting, how the force came to be so was not due to any inherent national prowess or trait. Instead it was the culmination of years of training, organisational change, battlefield experimentation and hard-won experience—a process that included not just the Australians, but the wider British imperial armies as well. This book brings together some of Australia's foremost military historians to outline how the military neophytes that left Australia's shores in 1914 became the battle winning troops of 1918. It will trace the evolution of several of the key arms of the AIF, including the infantry, the light horse, the artillery, and the flying corps, and also consider how the various arms worked together alongside other troops of the British Empire to achieve a remarkably high level of battlefield effectiveness.
Book Synopsis The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Volume VI Part 2 - The Australian Imperial Force in France: May 1918 - The Armistice by : C. E. W. Bean
Download or read book The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Volume VI Part 2 - The Australian Imperial Force in France: May 1918 - The Armistice written by C. E. W. Bean and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume six covers the last six months of the Great War and gives us the story of how the Australians hit back, showing how they were constantly on the offensive. The successful Battle of Hamel was followed by the great offensive, starting on 8th August, in which the AIF was the main spearhead in a series of smashing victories. Also of interest is the biographical information on General Monash, the corps' Commander, as well as pen sketches of other Generals and heroes of all ranks. The "Diggers" 1918. "Peaceful Penetration" Begins. The Australians at Morlancourt Hit Back. Ville-sur-Ancre. Foch Holds the Scales. Monash Succeeds Birdwood. The Third Stroke at Morlancourt. The Hamel Plan - Tanks and the Americans. The Battle of Hamel. "Peaceful Penetration" - Its Climax on the Somme. "Peaceful Penetration" - Its Climax at Hazebrouck. The Turning Point. The Origin of "August 8th." "Der Schwarze Tag." Lihons. Chipilly, Proyart and Etinehem. Haig's Second Stroke - August 21st-25th. Mont St. Quentin. The Hindenburg Outpost-Line. The Hindenburg Line. The War Ends. The Old Force Passes. The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australian involvement in the First World War. The series was edited by C.E.W. Bean, who also wrote six of the volumes, and was published between 1920 and 1942. The first seven volumes deal with the Australian Imperial Force while other volumes cover the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force at Rabaul, the Royal Australian Navy, the Australian Flying Corps and the home front; the final volume is a photographic record. Unlike other official histories that have been aimed at military staff, Bean intended the Australian history to be accessible to a non-military audience. The relatively small size of the Australian forces enabled the history to be presented in great detail, giving accounts of individual actions that would not have been possible when covering a larger force.
Book Synopsis Australians and the First World War by : Kate Ariotti
Download or read book Australians and the First World War written by Kate Ariotti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the global turn in First World War studies by exploring Australians’ engagements with the conflict across varied boundaries and by situating Australian voices and perspectives within broader, more complex contexts. This diverse and multifaceted collection includes chapters on the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial Force, the experiences of prisoners of war, nurses and Red Cross workers, the resonances of overseas events for Australians at home, and the cultural legacies of the war through remembrance and representation. The local-global framework provides a fresh lens through which to view Australian connections with the Great War, demonstrating that there is still much to be said about this cataclysmic event in modern history.
