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Download or read book Pozieres written by Graham Keech and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village sits on top of the ridge that bears its name, a ridge that was an objective on the 1st July 1916. As it was, the whole position was not finally cleared until early September 1916 as German, Australian and British troops fought tenaciously over it.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Pozieres 1916 by : Meleah Hampton
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.
Download or read book Pozieres written by Scott Bennett and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2012-03-21 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 Pozieres. 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 Pozieres. 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 Pozieres, 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.
Download or read book Pozières written by Peter Charlton and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Australians on the Somme: Pozieres 1916 by : Peter Charlton
Download or read book Australians on the Somme: Pozieres 1916 written by Peter Charlton and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fromelles and Pozières by : Peter FitzSimons
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.
Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis History of the Fourteenth Engineers U.S. Army, from May, 1917 to May, 1919 by : Robert Graham Henderson
Download or read book History of the Fourteenth Engineers U.S. Army, from May, 1917 to May, 1919 written by Robert Graham Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of a Battalion by : W. Devine
Download or read book The Story of a Battalion written by W. Devine and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nelson's History of the War by : John Buchan
Download or read book Nelson's History of the War written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Children's Story of the War by : Edward Parrott
Download or read book The Children's Story of the War written by Edward Parrott and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A National History of Australia, New Zealand the Adjacent Islands by : Robert P. Thomson
Download or read book A National History of Australia, New Zealand the Adjacent Islands written by Robert P. Thomson and published by London : G. Routledge ; New York : E.P. Dutton. This book was released on 1917 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A National History of Australia, New Zealand the Adjacent Islands: From Their Discovery to the Centennial Era and From That Period to the Present Day The want of a reliable, fairly connected, and consecutive account of the events of Australian history must long since have been apparent to those who have taken sufficient interest in the past of their native or adopted land to pursue the disconnected and incomplete records which, so far, are all that are available for the study of the inquirer or earnest scholar. In compiling this history to the Centennial year, the author was confronted by the difficulty, which was not so patent in the subsequent addition, that for a great portion of the period dealt with. Australia was not one country politically, but any number up to six,and that whilst it has been naturally one and indivisible, and as such required a generator national history, it also, as political divisions of it were made, called for a special account of the events of the individual units, and as to do reasonable justice to them needed that some of what was embodied in the account of the whole should be incorporated in their individual narratives, the presence of a certain amount of repetition was apparently unavoidable. However, if this has lengthened the volume of the history, the recapitulations will serve to impress facts that arc dealt with on the minds of the readers, a consideration not without value having regard to the scarcity of knowledge of the history of this country that is evidenced by the remarks of many persons in'prominent positions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment: 1914-1919 by : Harold Carmichael Wylly
Download or read book The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment: 1914-1919 written by Harold Carmichael Wylly and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The European War written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York Times Current History written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
