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Author : Peter Burness
Publisher : DVA Anzac Portal
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Australians on the Western Front—1918 Villers-Bretonneux to Le Hamel is the fourth book in the Australians on the Western Front 1916-1918 series developed by the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Author : Peter Burness,Australia. Department of Veterans' Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1877007277
Australians on the Western Front series. In March 1918 German forces launched a massive new offensive on the Western Front, and Australian divisions were rushed to the region around Villers-Bretonneux. This DVA title presents a concise account of the fighting, from the defence of Amiens through to the brilliant success at Le Hamel in July. Filled with striking black-and-white images from the Memorial's collection.
Author : John Sir Monash
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547093275
This work describes Australia's enormous contribution to the Allied victory in the First World War and the man behind it. It presents an account of Sir John Monash's strategy of using aircraft surveillance, combined with heavy artillery, and only then bringing his ground troops into a battle.
Author : John Laffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Le Hamel (Amiens, France)
ISBN : 0864179707
The amazing and inspiring story of the capture of the German front line in July of 1918. It was the turning point of WWI, which came to a victorious end shortly after. Laffin is one of the world's most distinguished military historians and has written more than 60 books concerning war.
Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780733640094
The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WWI. A largely Australian force, commanded by the brilliant Sir John Monash, fought what has been described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks, artillery and planes operated together as a coordinated force. Monash planned every detail meticulously, with nothing left to chance. Integrated use of tanks, planes, infantry, wireless (and even carrier pigeons!) was the basis, and it went on from there, down to the details: everyone used the same maps, with updated versions delivered by motorbike despatch riders to senior commanders, including Monash. Each infantry battalion was allocated to a tank group, and they advanced together. Supplies and ammunition were dropped as needed from planes. The losses were relatively few. In the words of Monash: 'A perfected modern battle plan is like nothing so much as a score for an orchestral composition, where the various arms and units are the instruments, and the tasks they perform are their respective musical phrases.' Monash planned for the battle to last for 90 minutes - in the end it went for 93. What happened in those minutes changed for the rest of the war the way the British fought battles, and the tactics and strategies used by the Allies. Peter FitzSimons brings this Allied triumph to life, and tells this magnificent story as it should be told.
Author : Aaron Pegram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108486194
Surviving the Great War is the first detailed analysis of Australians in German captivity in WW1. By placing the hardships of prisoners of war in a broader social and military content, this book adds a new dimension to the national wartime experience and challenges popular representations of Australia's involvement in the First World War.
Author : Frederic Morley Cutlack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : WISC:89100114727
Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781593127
Peter Simkins has established a reputation over the last forty years as one of the most original and stimulating historians of the First World War. He has made a major contribution to the debate about the performance of the British Army on the Western Front. This collection of his most perceptive and challenging essays, which concentrates on British operations in France between 1916 and 1918, shows that this reputation is richly deserved. He focuses on key aspects of the army's performance in battle, from the first day of the Somme to the Hundred Days, and gives a fascinating insight into the developing theory and practice of the army as it struggled to find a way to break through the German line. His rigorous analysis undermines some of the common assumptions - and the myths - that still cling to the history of these British battles.
Author : J. F. C. Fuller
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547612377
"Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918" by J. F. C. Fuller provides a comprehensive look at the role of tanks during World War I. Fuller's meticulous research and storytelling offer readers a detailed account of the development and deployment of tanks on the battlefield. This book is a valuable resource for history enthusiasts and those interested in the evolution of military technology during one of the most significant conflicts in history. It sheds light on the pivotal role that tanks played in shaping the outcome of the war.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648282406
The Sir John Monash Centre is a multi-media interpretive centre situated alongside the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux in France. Architecturally and conceptually innovative, the centre explores the story of the Australians who served on the Western Front during the First World War. This full colour soft cover edition documents the creation of the centre and gives the reader a window into the historical content that forms its core.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211182758
A seventeen-volume compilation of selected AEF records gathered by Army historians during the interwar years. This collection in no way represents an exhaustive record of the Army's months in France, but it is certainly worthy of serious consideration and thoughtful review by students of military history and strategegy and will serve as a useful jumping off point for any earnest scholarship on the war. --from Foreword by William A Stofft.
Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742759524
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. .
Author : John Ramsland
Publisher : Brolga Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781922036896
'A flash blinds me... We are lost in a chaos of flying mud... Smoke, filth, confusion, racket! I spit and splutter and swear... Oh Christ! I think I'm flamin' well dead.' This is the compelling story of Lieutenant Joseph 'Darkie' Maxwell DCM, MC and Bar, VC - the second highest decorated Australian soldier of the First World War. Meticulously researched by historian John Ramsland, Maxwell's colourful life is traced from his childhood on the Hunter coalfields until his death at age 71 in a soldier's settlement home in Matraville Sydney. Maxwell was a vivid storyteller who wrote Hells Bells and Mademoiselles, telling of his experiences in the war. In telling Maxwell's story, Ramsland has uncovered many forgotten documents to piece together an extraordinary life of an extraordinary man.
Author : Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : PSU:000011110033
Author : Ian Beckett,Timothy Bowman,Mark Connelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107005778
A comprehensive new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.
