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Fromelles and Pozières

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143783300
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Fromelles and Pozières written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Fromelles and Pozires

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143786342
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Fromelles and Pozires written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Trenches of Hell In the Trenches of Hell On 19 July 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 Pozi res, 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 Pozi res 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.

Fromelles and Pozières

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741362190
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Fromelles and Pozières written by Peter FitzSimons and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 July 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.

Pozieres

Author : Scott Bennett
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1922247480
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Pozieres written by Scott Bennett and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozières. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task. At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands of Australians stormed Pozières. Forty-five days later they were relieved, having suffered 23,000 casualties to gain a few miles of barren landscape. Despite the toll, the operation was heralded as a stunning victory. Yet for the exhausted survivors, the war-weary public, and the families of the dead and maimed, victory came at a terrible cost. Drawing on the letters and diaries of the men who fought at Pozières, this superb book reveals a battlefield drenched in chaos and fear. Bennett sheds light on the story behind the official history, re-creating the experiences of those men who fought in one of the largest and most devastating battles of the Great War and returned home, all too often, as shattered men.

The Battle of Pozieres 1916

Author : Meleah Hampton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1925675602
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Pozieres 1916 written by Meleah Hampton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Pozières has reverberated throughout Australia’s military history, long regarded as a costly battle that produced little meaningful gain. Pozières was characterised by the most intense artillery bombardment the Australians had experienced in the war thus far and ‘the hell that was Pozières’ became the yardstick by which subsequent bombardments were measured. The 13th Battalion’s Frank Massey described men who became ‘blithering idiots … Crying and weeping and — absolutely useless as a fighting man.’ The object of the battle was Pozières Ridge, a low rise that offered a good view of the German positions. Heavily fortified, the ridge and the pulverised remains of the village were contested bitterly and, during its six-week campaign, 1st Anzac Corps advanced little more than two miles and suffered 23,000 casualties. Charles Bean wrote that ‘Australian troops … fell more thickly on this ridge than on any other battlefield of the war.’ However, the first phase of the campaign was very successful, securing the fortified ruins of Pozières and the German second line. But follow-up operations failed to capitalise and subsequent assaults merely nibbled away at enemy positions without making significant headway. Yet the Battle of Pozières marks a significant achievement not only for 1st Anzac Corps, but for the British Expeditionary Force. In a war in which any advance was hard won, the wresting of the high ground from the Germans was crucial. For the battered Allied forces, the capture of Pozières Ridge provided faint hope of an end to a catastrophic war.

The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: The Australian flying corps in the western and eastern theatres of war 1914-1918, by F.M. Cutlack. (2d ed. 1933)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: The Australian flying corps in the western and eastern theatres of war 1914-1918, by F.M. Cutlack. (2d ed. 1933) written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Broken Nation

Author : Joan Beaumont
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741751381
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)

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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

Expertise, Authority and Control

Author : Alexia Moncrieff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108478158
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Expertise, Authority and Control written by Alexia Moncrieff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the first major study of the Australian Army Medical Corp in over seventy years. It examines the provision of medical care to Australian soldiers during the Dardanelles campaign and explores the imperial and medical-military hierarchies that were blended and challenged during the campaign. By the end of 1918, the AAMC was a radically different organisation. Using army orders, unit war diaries and memoranda written to disseminate information within the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) and between British and Australian soldiers, it maps the provision of medical care through casualty clearance and evacuation, rehabilitation, and the prevention and treatment of venereal disease. In doing so, she reassesses Australian military medicine and maps the transition to an infrastructure for the AIF in the field, especially in response to conflicts with traditional imperial, military and medical hierarchies.

Pozières

Author : Christopher Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316241114
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Pozières written by Christopher Wray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From July to September 1916, some 23,000 Australians were killed or wounded in the Battle of Pozières. It was the first strategically important engagement by Australian soldiers on the Western Front and its casualties exceeded those of any other battle of the First World War, including Gallipoli. In this important book, Christopher Wray explores the influence of Pozières on Australian society and history, and how it is remembered today. In the opening chapters he revisits the battle and considers its aftermath, including shell shock and the psychological effects experienced by surviving soldiers. The concluding chapters examine the way in which the battle has been commemorated in literature and art, and the extent to which it has been overlooked in contemporary remembrance of the war. Generously illustrated with photographs, maps and paintings, Pozières: Echoes of a Distant Battle is essential reading for anyone interested in the First World War and Australia's post-war society.

"Over There" with the Australians

Author : R. Hugh Knyvett
Publisher : London : [s.n.]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book "Over There" with the Australians written by R. Hugh Knyvett and published by London : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1918 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of an ANZAC scout, an Intelligence Officer, in the Fifteenth Australian Infantry. Captain R. Hugh Knyvett was one of the lucky ones: he trained in Egypt and survived the campaigns in Gallipoli and the Western Front.

Great Anzac Stories

Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743310595
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Great Anzac Stories written by Graham Seal and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of heroism, suffering and endurance, and humour, from the main wars in which Australians have fought. Includes stories from WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, plus the home front. Most of the stories haven't been seen since they were first published in newspapers and memoirs. Many were sourced from unpublished diaries.

Victory at Villers-Bretonneux

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 174275953X
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Victory at Villers-Bretonneux written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance. On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia - immediately suing for peace with Germany - means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser's soldiers can now be transferred from there to the Western Front. On the other, now that America has entered the war, it means that two million American soldiers are also on their way, to tip the scales of war to the Allies. The Germans, realising that their only hope is striking at the Allied lines first, do exactly that, and on the morning of 21 March 1918, the Kaiserschlacht, the Kaiser's battle, is launched - the biggest set-piece battle the world has ever seen. Across a 45-mile front, no fewer than two million German soldiers hurl themselves at the Allied lines, with the specific intention of splitting the British and French forces, and driving all the way through to the town of Villers-Bretonneux, at which point their artillery will be able to rain down shells on the key train-hub town of Amiens, thus throttling the Allied supply lines. For nigh on two weeks, the plan works brilliantly, and the Germans are able to advance without check, as the exhausted British troops flee before them, together with tens of thousands of French refugees. In desperation, the British commander, General Douglas Haig, calls upon the Australian soldiers to stop the German advance, and save Villers-Bretonneux. If the Australians can hold this, the very gate to Amiens, then the Germans will not win the war. 'It's up to us, then,' one of the Diggers writes in his diary. Arriving at Villers-Bretonneux just in time, the Australians are indeed able to hold off the Germans, launching a vicious counterattack that hurls the Germans back the first time. And then, on Anzac Day 1918, when the town falls after all to the British defenders, it is again the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the entire battle . . . Not for nothing does the primary school at Villers-Bretonneux have above every blackboard, to this day, 'N'oublions jamais, l'Australie.' Never forget Australia. And they never have.

The Great War

Author : Les Carlyon
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1743535937
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Great War written by Les Carlyon and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Carlyon's The Great War is the epic story of the fighting men who wove themselves into legend as part of the largest tragedy in Australian history - 179,000 dead and wounded - leaving a nation to mourn its fallen heroes in 'one long national funeral' into the 1930s and, now again, a century later. As he did with the best-seller Gallipoli, Carlyon leads the reader behind the lines, across the western front and other theatres of battle, and deep into the minds of the men who are witnesses to war. Having walked the fields of France, Belgium and Turkey on his quest for a truth beyond the myth, Carlyon weaves us a mesmerising narrative that shifts seamlessly from the hatching of grand strategies in the political salons of London and St Petersburg to the muddy, bloody trenches of Pozieres and Passchendaele where ordinary soldiers descended into a maelstrom unimaginable. The Great War is history at its best - a brilliant account of the most vital event in Australian history. Winner of the ABIA Awards' Book of the Year 2009 Winner of the ABIA Awards' General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2009

The Western Front Diaries

Author : Jonathan King
Publisher : Scribe Us
ISBN 13 : 9781925106695
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Western Front Diaries written by Jonathan King and published by Scribe Us. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Special 100th-anniversary edition"--Title-page. "Revised edition"--Verso.

The Anzac Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anzac Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anzac to Amiens

Author : Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anzac to Amiens written by Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Battle Scarred

Author : Craig Deayton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1921941251
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Battle Scarred written by Craig Deayton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The dead and wounded of the 47th lay everywhere underfoot". With these words Charles Bean, Australia's Official War Historian, described the battlefield of Dernancourt on the morning of the 5th of April, 1918, strewn with the bodies of the Australian dead. It was the final tragic chapter in the story of the 47th Australian Infantry Battalion in the First World War. One of the shortest lived and most battle hardened of the 1st Australian Imperial Force's battalions, the 47th was formed in Egypt in 1916 and disbanded two years later having suffered one of the highest casualty rates of any Australian unit. Their story is remarkable for many reasons. Dogged by command and discipline troubles and bled white by the desperate attrition battles of 1916 and 1917, they fought on against a determined and skilful enemy in battles where the fortunes of war seemed stacked against them at every turn. Not only did they have the misfortune to be called into some of the A.I.F.'s most costly campaigns, chance often found them in the worst places within those battles. Though their story is one of almost unrelieved tragedy, it is also story of remarkable courage, endurance and heroism. It is the story of the 1st A.I.F. itself - punished, beaten, sometimes reviled for their indiscipline, they fought on - fewer, leaner and harder - until final victory was won. And at its end, in an extraordinary gesture of mateship, the remnants of the 47th Battalion reunited. Having been scattered to other units after their disbandment, the survivors gathered in Belgium for one last photo together. Only 73 remained.