The Australian Army In World War I

Author : Robert Fleming
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849086332

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The Australian Army in World War I by Robert Fleming Pdf

The importance of the Australian contribution to the Allied war effort during World War I should never be underestimated. Some 400,000 Australians volunteered for active duty, an astonishing 13 per cent of the entire (white) male population, a number so great that the Australian government was never forced to rely on conscription. Casualties were an astonishing 52 per cent of all those who served, ensuring that the effects of the war would be felt long after the armistice. In particular, their epic endeavour at Gallipoli in 1915 was the nation's founding legend, and the ANZACs went on to distinguish themselves both on the Western Front and in General Allenby's great cavalry campaign against the Turks in the Middle East. Their uniforms and insignia were also significantly different from those of the British Army and provide the basis for a unique set of artwork plates.

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472805225

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The Australian Army in World War II by Mark Johnston Pdf

This book recounts the organization and deployment of one of the most important fighting armies of World War II. Australian divisions made a large and distinctive contribution to victory both in the deserts of the Middle East and the jungles of the South-West Pacific,earning for the second time a unique reputation for aggressiveness, endurance and independence of spirit. The text is illustrated with original wartime photos from all fronts; and with full colour plates showing a wide range of uniforms and gear, together with the complex and colourful Australian system of unit insignia.

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521782228

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Fighting the Enemy by Mark Johnston Pdf

Fighting The Enemy, first published in 2000, is about men with the job of killing each other. Based on the wartime writings of hundreds of Australian front-line soldiers during World War II, this powerful and resonant book contains many moving descriptions of high emotion and drama. Soldiers' interactions with their enemies are central to war and their attitudes to their adversaries are crucial to the way wars are fought. Yet few books look in detail at how enemies interpret each other. This book is an unprecedented and thorough examination of the way Australian combat soldiers interacted with troops from the four powers engaged in World War II: Germany, Italy, Vichy France and Japan. Each opponent has themes peculiar to it: the Italians were much ridiculed; the Germans were the most respected of enemies; the Vichy French were regarded with ambivalence; while the Japanese were the subject of much hostility, intensified by the real threat of occupation.

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521523230

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At the Front Line by Mark Johnston Pdf

At the Front Line draws on a plethora of letters, diaries and documents written by over 300 Australian soldiers in the field to present a picture of the hardships and triumphs of their wartime experience. Mark Johnston analyses the suffering of front-line soldiers caused not only by the opposing force, but also by the conditions imposed by their own army. The book details the physical and psychological pressures of life at the front and shows how soldiers survived or surrendered to unbearable environments, fear, boredom and the constant threat of impending death. The myths of mateship and equanimity are brought under scrutiny. Much hostility can be explained by competition between ranks and the perceived hostility of superiors. The author investigates the immense strain that led to many breakdowns and the characteristic forebearance that saw so many others through.

Author : Bill Gammage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89052393915

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The Broken Years by Bill Gammage Pdf

Uses the diaries and letters of a thousand Australian soldiers to reconstruct with great sensitivity the valour and the tragedy of their experience. Shows how and why the Great War was to have profound effects on the attitudes and ideals of Australia as a nation.

Author : Melanie Oppenheimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1877007285

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Australian Women and War by Melanie Oppenheimer Pdf

Sourced from Oppenheimer's own research and archival material from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Red Cross archives and State Libraries, Australian Women and War contains accounts of women such as Nursing Sister Nellie Gould in the Boer War and Angela Rhodes, the first Australian Military female air traffic controller to serve in Baghdad during the second Gulf War. The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the internment (concentration) camps.

Author : John Barrett
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001808631

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We Were There by John Barrett Pdf

Aborigines and army service - Australian women's Army - Burma-Thailand railway - Prisoners of war (POW's).

Author : Robert Stevenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107394452

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To Win the Battle by Robert Stevenson Pdf

In 1915 the 1st Australian Division led the way ashore at Gallipoli. In 1916 it achieved the first Australian victory on the Western Front at Pozières. It was still serving with distinction in the battles that led to the defeat of the German army in 1918. To Win the Battle explains how the division rose from obscurity to forge a reputation as one of the great fighting formations of the British Empire during the First World War, forming a central part of the Anzac legend. Drawing on primary sources as well as recent scholarship, this fresh approach suggests that the early reputation of Australia's premier division was probably higher than its performance warranted. Robert Stevenson shows that the division's later success was founded on the capacity of its commanders to administer, train and adapt to the changing conditions on the battlefield, rather than on the innate qualities of its soldiers.

Author : Amanda Laugesen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317173014

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'Boredom is the Enemy' by Amanda Laugesen Pdf

War is often characterised as one percent terror, 99 per cent boredom. Whilst much ink has been spilt on the one per cent, relatively little work has been directed toward the other 99 per cent of a soldier's time. As such, this book will be welcomed by those seeking a fuller understanding of what makes soldiers endure war, and how they cope with prolonged periods of inaction. It explores the issue of military boredom and investigates how soldiers spent their time when not engaged in battle, work or training through a study of their creative, imaginative and intellectual lives. It examines the efforts of military authorities to provide solutions to military boredom (and the problem of discipline and morale) through the provisioning of entertainment and education, but more importantly explores the ways in which soldiers responded to such efforts, arguing that soldiers used entertainment and education in ways that suited them. The focus in the book is on Australians and their experiences, primarily during the First World War, but with subsequent chapters taking the story through the Second World War to the Vietnam War. This focus on a single national group allows questions to be raised about what might (or might not) be exceptional about the experiences of a particular national group, and the ways national identity can shape an individual's relationship and engagement with education and entertainment. It can also suggest the continuities and changes in these experiences through the course of three wars. The story of Australians at war illuminates a much broader story of the experience of war and people's responses to war in the twentieth century.

Author : William Westerman (Writer on Australian Army)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
ISBN : 1108122965

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Soldiers and Gentlemen by William Westerman (Writer on Australian Army) Pdf

Soldiers and Gentlemen: Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War, 1914?1918 is the first book to examine the background, role and conduct of Australian commanding officers during the First World War. Though they held positions of power, commanding officers inhabited a leadership no man's land - they exerted great influence over their units, but they were also largely excluded from the decision-making process and faced the same risks as junior officers on the battlefield. A soldier's well-being and success in battle was heavily dependent on a commanding officer's competence, but little is known about the men who filled these roles. In his groundbreaking book, William Westerman explores the stories of the vitally important, yet often forgotten, commanding officers. Theirs is a story of the timeless challenges of military leadership, and this book prevents them from slipping from the public memory to enhance our knowledge of the conflict.

Author : Australian Army Staff
Publisher : Merriam Press
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781576380772

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The Australian Army at War by Australian Army Staff Pdf

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030961

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Anzacs in the Middle East by Mark Johnston Pdf

Provides an exploration of the experiences of soldiers who fought in the Middle East during World War II.

Author : Alexia Moncrieff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478151

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Expertise, Authority and Control by Alexia Moncrieff Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Anzac Day
ISBN : 187700751X

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Gallipoli and the Anzacs by Anonim Pdf

An education resource for secondary school children about the experiences of the Anzacs at Gallipoli in 1915. Incorporates teachers notes and multimedia.

Author : Tony Sweeney
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Malaria
ISBN : 0522850332

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Malaria Frontline by Tony Sweeney Pdf

During World War II malaria was one of the most powerful enemies of the Australian troops in the South West Pacific. In 1943 the Australian Army formed a special research team to tackle the problem. This book documents the Australian search for a cure, and the scientific breakthroughs.