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The Lost Legions of Fromelles

Author : Peter Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781742377117
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Legions of Fromelles written by Peter Barton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversial and groundbreaking, this is the most authoritative book ever written on the battle of Fromelles - worst day in Australia's entire military history. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered Australian national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. Raging for 14 hours, this was the worst day in Australia's entire military history. Our soldiers suffered 5,533 casualties during this one night. The Australian toll at Fromelles was equivalent to the total Australian casualties in the Boer War, Korean War and Vietnam War put together. It was a staggering disaster. It has also left many mysteries. At the time of the battle, and for many decades after, the bodies of the dead lay undiscovered. Indeed, it was only through efforts in the last few years that the final resting place of so many has finally been located and the dead provided with a formal burial. With access to the German archives for the first time ever, Peter Barton has written the most authoritative book on Fromelles. Combining new scholarship on the battle itself with an account of recent events, he dispells many myths in a rich and compelling history.

The Lost Legions of Fromelles

Author : Peter Barton
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472119371
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Legions of Fromelles written by Peter Barton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a diversion from the Somme, Fromelles was was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history, and is recognised as one of the bloodiest and most useless battles of the First World War. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. In one night, British and Australian soldiers suffered casualties equivalent to the total toll of the Boer War, Korean War and Vietnam War combined. Barton's research has revealed that the Australian frontline troops gave away critical Allied secrets to the Germans... which not only led directly to the Fromelles slaughter - but also contributed to the failure of the Somme offensive as a whole. The Lost Legions of Fromelles is the most authoritative book on this staggering disaster, combining new scholarship on the battle with an account of recent events to dispel many myths in a rich and compelling history.

The Lost Legions of Fromelles

Author : Peter Barton
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472119371
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Legions of Fromelles written by Peter Barton and published by Constable. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a diversion from the Somme, Fromelles was was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history, and is recognised as one of the bloodiest and most useless battles of the First World War. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. In one night, British and Australian soldiers suffered casualties equivalent to the total toll of the Boer War, Korean War and Vietnam War combined. Barton's research has revealed that the Australian frontline troops gave away critical Allied secrets to the Germans... which not only led directly to the Fromelles slaughter - but also contributed to the failure of the Somme offensive as a whole. The Lost Legions of Fromelles is the most authoritative book on this staggering disaster, combining new scholarship on the battle with an account of recent events to dispel many myths in a rich and compelling history.

Don't Forget Me, Cobber

Author : Robin S. Corfield
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780522855296
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Don't Forget Me, Cobber written by Robin S. Corfield and published by Melbourne University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of 19 July 1916 on a strip of farmland north of Fromelles, the AIF fought its first battle in France. Outnumbered two to one, a well-organised German division faced two divisions, one Australian and the other British, and yet inflicted a costly defeat. By dusk the following day there were 2436 Allies dead and 4123 wounded, no territory gained and only 501 Germans killed and 943 injured. As far as the Australians were concerned, at the disastrous battle of Fromelles, their commander, Major General McCay, was obsessed with ambition and glory on the battlefield. At dawn on 20 July, McCay went to survey the aftermath and was heard to remark that 'they'll get used to it'. After the war McCay's powerful friends ensured that Fromelles was never examined in any depth, and when it was, all blame was put on the British. Don't forget me, cobber is the extraordinary story of the lead up to the battle, the battle itself, as well as the successful search for the 'missing of Fromelles'. Lost in mass grave pits since 1916, some 190 Australians and 328 British soldiers have been discovered after seven years of campaigning by Lambis Englezos, who also writes of his experience here. The book also includes a complete Roll of Honour of the British and Australians killed, as well as some of the Germans.

The Battle of Fromelles 1916

Author : Roger Lee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1921941677
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Fromelles 1916 written by Roger Lee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Fromelles remains the single bloodiest day in terms of soldiers killed, wounded or missing, in Australia's military history. Remains of soldiers were recently discovered in mass graves in northern France and the final soldier will be laid to rest when a new cemetery officially opens on 19th July, 2010 - the 94th anniversary of the battle.

Fromelles 1916

Author : Paul Cobb
Publisher : Pitkin
ISBN 13 : 9780752456010
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Fromelles 1916 written by Paul Cobb and published by Pitkin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Fromelles in July 1916 two divisions - one British and one Australian - within a few weeks of arriving in France - went into action for the first time. Their task was to prevent the Germans from moving troops to the Somme where a major British offensive was in progress, but the attack on 19/20 July was a disaster with nearly 7,000 casualties in a few hours. This account explores this battle which for many epitomises the futility of the Great War. In those few hours many heroic deeds were done but the battle caused a souring of Anglo-Australian relationships and truly was a baptism of fire for these British and Australian troops. This is their history. In a new section, Paul Cobb explores the recent discovery in 2008/09 of a mass war grave on the battlefield and includes details of the findings of the archaeological dig, the recovery of 250 bodies and the creation of a new military cemetery.

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.

The Battle of Fromelles

Author : Fred Strode
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Fromelles written by Fred Strode and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events of 19 July 1916.

Remembering Fromelles

Author : Julie Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956507402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Fromelles written by Julie Summers and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2009 archaeologists began to excavate the remains of 250 British and Australian soldiers, buried behind German lines after the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916. This book includes a detailed history of the battle.

Fromelles

Author : Patrick Lindsay
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1743584288
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Fromelles written by Patrick Lindsay and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

‘The bomb craters and the death and destruction have been ploughed over. The homes and the church and the buildings have been rebuilt. But the memories remain.’

July 2016 marks the centenary of the Battle of Fromelles – Australia’s worst-ever military defeat. On 19 July 1916, a British commander ordered 7000 Australian soldiers to launch an attack on the German lines close to the village of Fromelles in northern France. Underprepared and outnumbered, the diggers suffered 5533 casualties in one night. Almost 2000 men lay dead – more than in the Boer, Korean and Vietnam wars combined. The fate of the many soldiers that broke through enemy lines remained unknown for decades, until a group of amateur historians set out to find the missing diggers of Fromelles.

Patrick Lindsay’s evocative and enthralling account takes you back to the killing fields of northern France. Fromelles: Our Darkest Day retells the story of the fateful battle and the people behind it, and details the passionate and determined quest to find the missing soldiers, and to give them their final, dignified resting place.

This updated edition includes material on the discovery of the Fromelles mass graves, and on the subsequent excavation, recovery, identification and re-interment of soldiers at Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, with a full list of names of missing and identified soldiers.

‘Fromelles may be the most tragic battlefield in Australia’s history.’ LES CARLYON

Fromelles: The Final Chapters

Author : Tim Lycett
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742536360
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Fromelles: The Final Chapters written by Tim Lycett and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Honour. For Courage. For Remembrance. The Battle of Fromelles in France during the First World War was Australia's worst 24 hours. Thousands of men were shot down amid the horror of that blundered attack. The whereabouts of hundreds of dead soldiers was unknown for almost a century until the discovery in 2008 of unmarked mass graves at Pheasant Wood. The remains of these 250 men sparked a mission to reclaim their identities. Tim Lycett and Sandra Playle became key players in the identification project, volunteering their time and working alongside other amateur advocates and international experts. Tim tells how they pieced together fragments of information from relics, military records and family histories using genealogy data and DNA analysis. They fought to have authorities reopen investigations in their quest to find the untold stories of the diggers and reconnect them with their families. This is an inspiring, heart-rending account of war, its aftermath and its effect on the lives of the lost diggers' descendants.

Fromelles

Author : Carole Wilkinson
Publisher : Walker Books Australia
ISBN 13 : 1925126579
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Fromelles written by Carole Wilkinson and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the award-winning series, The Drum, and by the multi-award-winning author Carole Wilkinson. The first shots were fired at 11am, 19 July 1916. The Battle of Fromelles lasted less than 24 hours. When it was over, more than 5000 Australian soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. More soldiers died at Fromelles than in the Boer, Korean and Vietnam war combined. What was the point of this bloody loss of life? And why, almost a century later, did the attention of the world once again turn to Fromelles?

Don't Forget Me, Cobber

Author : Robin S. Corfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876586188
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Don't Forget Me, Cobber written by Robin S. Corfield and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Battle Planning in 1916 and the Battle of Fromelles

Author : Roger Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317172116
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book British Battle Planning in 1916 and the Battle of Fromelles written by Roger Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the substantial output of revisionist scholarship over the last decade reappraising the performance of the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War, there still remains a stubborn perception that its commanders were incompetent, inflexible and unimaginative. Whilst much ink has been spilled vilifying or defending individual commanders, or looking for overarching trends and ’learning curves’, this is the first work to examine systematically the vertical nature of command - that is the transmission of plans from the high-command down through the rank structure to the front line. Through such an investigation, a much more rounded measure of the effectiveness of British commanders can be gained; one moves the argument beyond the overly simplistic ’casualties to ground gained’ equation that is usually offered. The Battle of Fromelles (19-20 July 1916) was selected as the case study as it was relatively small in scale, in the right period, and retains sufficient primary sources available to sustain the analysis. It also witnessed the first time Australian forces were used in offensive operations on the Western Front, and thus looms large in wider Commonwealth perceptions of ’Bumbling British Generals’. The book follows the progress of the battle plan from its inception in the strategic designs of the supreme commander down through the various intermediate level commands at operational and tactical headquarters until it became the orders that sent the infantry forward into the attack. In so doing it provides a unique insight into the strengths and weaknesses of British command structure, allowing a much more scholarly judgement of its overall effectiveness.

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

Battle of Fromelles

Author : Roger Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781458738660
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Battle of Fromelles written by Roger Lee and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

German Students' War Letters

Author : Philipp Witkop
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208781
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book German Students' War Letters written by Philipp Witkop and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-16 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally appearing at the same time as the pacifist novel All Quiet on the Western Front, this powerful collection provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of an enemy that had been thoroughly demonized by the Allied press. Composed by German students who had left their university studies in order to participate in World War I, these letters reveal the struggles and hardships that all soldiers face. The stark brutality and surrealism of war are revealed as young men from Germany describe their bitter combat and occasional camaraderie with soldiers from many nations, including France, Great Britain, and Russia. Like its companion volume, War Letters of Fallen Englishmen, these letters were carefully selected for their depth of perception, the intensity of their descriptions, and their messages to future generations. "Should these letters help towards the establishment of justice and better understanding between nations," the editor reflects in his introduction, "their deaths will not have been in vain." This edition contains a new foreword by the distinguished World War I historian Jay Winter.