The History of the Fourteenth Battalion, A. I. F.
Author | : Newton Wanliss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Newton Wanliss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edgar John Rule |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 9780646388038 |
Author | : Newton Wanliss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2011-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845748708 |
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.
Author | : David W. Cameron |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 651 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1922132756 |
Our Friend the Enemy is the first detailed history of the Gallipoli campaign at Anzac since Charles Bean’s Official History. Viewed from both sides of the wire and described in first-hand accounts. Australian Captain Herbert Layh recounted that as they approached the beach on 25 April that, once we were behind cover the Turks turned their .. [fire] on us, and gave us a lively 10 minutes. A poor chap next to me was hit three times. He begged me to shoot him, but luckily for him a fourth bullet got him and put him out of his pain. Later that day, Sergeant Charles Saunders, a New Zealand engineer, described his first taste of battle, The Turks were entrenched some 50-100 yards from the edge of the face of the gully and their machine guns swept the edges. Line after line of our men went up, some lines didn’t take two paces over the crest when down they went to a man and on came another line. Gunner Recep Trudal of the Turkish 27th Regiment wrote of the fierce Turkish counter-attack on 19 May designed to push the Anzac’s back into the sea, It started at morning prayer call time, and then it went on and on, never stopped. You know there was no break for eating or anything … Attack was our command. That was what the Pasha said. Once he says “Attack”, you attack, and you either die or you survive.
Author | : Ronald James Austin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 9780646316505 |
Author | : W. R. G. Colman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Autobiographical fiction |
ISBN | : 9781925003604 |
The author served as a private, NCO and officer in the 27th Battalion AIF from 1915 to 1919. Presented here for the first time, after lying unpublished in the Australian War Memorial's archives for almost 80 years, this is the story of a young university student who enlists to 'do his bit'. In the persona of his narrator, John Carlton, Colman journeys from schoolboy cricked captain in Adelaide to infantry officer on the Western Front, where he is twice wounded and awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. A thoughtful and intelligent writer, he tells what it means to be a civilian in a soldier's world. Includes commentary from two leading South Australian military historians with glossary of army terms and portions of W.R.G. Colman's diary.
Author | : 1st Battalion A.I.F. History Committee (Australia) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-08-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781684191178 |
Revised facsimile of the First Edition, The History of the First Battalion, A.I.F., 1914-1919. Cover and spine title: First Battalion A.I.F., 1914-1919.Historical record of the Australian 1st Battalion AIF during World War One including a Nominal Roll and Decorations awarded to members.Publisher - T S Jones Books On War Australia admin@booksonwaraustralia
Author | : William Westerman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2017-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107190622 |
In Soldiers and Gentlemen, Westerman explores the stories of the vitally important, yet often forgotten, Australian commanding officers.
Author | : Robin Prior |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030022222X |
No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made by the Allies in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable nor inescapable; perhaps it was not necessary at all. Using a substantial archive of official and private records, much of which has never been previously consulted, Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior provide the fullest account of the campaign ever published. The book examines the political dimension at a level which has hitherto been absent from accounts of "Third Ypres." It establishes what did occur, the options for alternative action, and the fundamental responsibility for the carnage. Prior and Wilson consider the shifting ambitions and stratagems of the high command, examine the logistics of war, and assess what the available manpower, weaponry, technology, and intelligence could realistically have hoped to achieve. And, most powerfully of all, they explore the experience of the soldiers in the light—whether they knew it or not—of what would never be accomplished.