The Western Front Diaries Of Charles Bean

Author : Peter Burness
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1742235867

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The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean by Peter Burness Pdf

Australia's official First World War correspondent Charles Bean saw more of the Australian army's activities and battles on the Western Front than anyone. Bean's private wartime diaries, held by the Australian War Memorial, form a unique and personal record of his experiences and observations throughout the war and were the basis of his monumental twelve-volume official war history. While his diaries relating to the Gallipoli campaign have been published in four editions, Bean's Western Front diaries are published here for the first time, edited by esteemed historian Peter Burness, and accompanied by over 500 incredible photographs, sketches and maps.

Author : Kevin Fewster
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781741767490

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Bean's Gallipoli by Kevin Fewster Pdf

The story of the ANZAC Gallipoli campaign based on the diaries of CEW Bean, the official Australian correspondent at Gallipoli.

Author : Jonathan King
Publisher : Kangaroo Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000126334980

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Western Front Diaries by Jonathan King Pdf

Hidden under the shadow of Gallipoli for decades, the breathtaking story of what really happened on the Western Front has finally been brought into the bright light of day. Five times greater than Gallipoli, the Western Front had: five times more soldiers (250 000 rather than 50 000), more than five times the amount of men killed (46 000 compared to 8709), more than five times as many battles, with troops serving there for four times longer, and five times the sum of Victoria Crosses earned (a total of 53). Thankfully, the diggers serving in this first Australian Army Corps and under an Australian commander for the first time, actually helped win the war. Using hundreds of brutally honest and extraordinary eyewitness accounts of the diggers in the muddy and bloody trenches, Western Front Diaries reproduces their private diaries, letters and postcards to tell of their heart-rending experiences, battle by bloody battle. With its gallery of unpublished photographs, Western Front Diaries tells without embellishment the stories of the Australian soldiers and finally puts the Western Front on the map.

Author : Ross Coulthart
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460700525

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Charles Bean by Ross Coulthart Pdf

Joint winner: Prize for Australian History, 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards This award-winning biography is a long overdue reassessment of the iconic Australian war correspondent 'The book I have enjoyed most in recent times has been Ross Coulthart's on the great war correspondent Charles Bean' - Peter FitzSimons, Sun Herald 'Fascinating biography ... strongly recommend it' Hon. Malcolm Turnbull via Twitter Charles Bean's wartime reports and photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on the shores of Gallipoli and the battlefields of western Europe. In his quest to get the truth, Bean often faced death beside the Diggers in the trenches of Gallipoli and the Western Front - and saw more combat than many. But did Bean tell Australia the whole story of what he knew? In this timely new biography, Ross Coulthart investigates the untold story behind Bean's jouralistic dilemma - his struggle to tell Australia the truth but also the pressure he felt to support the war and boost morale at home by suppressing what he'd seen. '[Bean] had an obsession with recording the truth and Coulthart has lived up to his legacy in this superb biography' - Tim Hilferty, Adelaide Advertiser 'This is among the best biographies of an Australian historian available, fittingly released during the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the events Bean meticulously recorded.' - Justin Cahill, Booktopiablog

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : IND:32000011204650

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The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : War correspondents
ISBN : OCLC:939612336

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Gallipoli Correspondent by Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean Pdf

Charles Bean was the Australian who was appointed the official war correspondent with the Australian Imperial Force troops in 1914. He landed at Anzac Cove in 1915 and he remained there for most of the campaign, enduring the same squalid conditions as the soldiers. In this diary we are provided with the innermost thoughts, hopes and criticisms of a man who helped shape the Anzac legend.

Author : Greg Raffin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925675665

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Mutiny On The Western Front by Greg Raffin Pdf

On 21 September 1918, with retreating German forces on their last legs, the 1st Battalion of the AIF was ordered to return to the front just as they were being relieved and preparing for a well-earnt rest. It wasn’t just the Germans who were on their last legs; the Australians were depleted and exhausted. In what was the largest such instance of mass ‘combat refusal’ in the AIF’s history, the men of one company in the 1st Battalion defied the order. The ‘mutiny’ spread to other companies, and when the battalion did eventually comply with the order, over 100 men were absent. The circumstances surrounding this mutiny have long been a matter of embarrassment for the AIF, and of fascination for military historians. While historians have approached the issue in purely military terms – the men as soldiers, over-extended service, rates of wounding, promotions, and so on – this book approaches these 100 plus men as human beings. Mutiny on the Western Front traces how these events played out in the context of the exhausting demands placed upon a unit that had seen practically continuous front-line action for weeks, if not months, in the war’s final, decisive stages. Author Greg Raffin considers what happens to men’s hearts and minds in the course of a prolonged conflict like the Great War. This story, which will surprise readers – is not just about a group of exhausted and war weary Australian soldiers in 1918, it is a story about humanity in war: about what men do in war, and what war does to men.

Author : Andrew Faulkner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781923144149

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Guts Glory and Blunder by Andrew Faulkner Pdf

This is a story of a forgotten battle. Other than in the haunted memories of those who fought there, and the families of those who died there, this battle is a footnote in the history books: a backwater off a side road at the end of a cul-de-sac on the battlefield tour trail. Guts Glory and Blunder reaches into the valley beneath the vaunted Hindenburg Line to draw out the men who fought and died seizing the French village of Noreuil in 1917. It finds hardened Anzacs and raw reinforcements fighting and dying shoulder-to-shoulder, step by bloody step, on the path to victory. Beginning on Gallipoli’s fatal shore, Guts Glory and Blunder follows the Anzacs to the Somme trenches and the race to the Hindenburg Line. This is a story of the 50th Battalion’s uncommon valour in its fiercest battle. How ordinary men performed superhuman feats despite a flawed plan, ‘friendly’ fire, enemy atrocities – a POW massacre and human shield tactics – and a combat mutiny. How a larrikin private was awarded a Victoria Cross for one of the most audacious stunts in the history of the medal. Guts Glory and Blunder is a story of how the diggers prevailed against all odds.

Author : Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:1038051362

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Frontline Gallipoli by Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean Pdf

Author : Peter Edgar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922265173

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Counter Attack Villers-Bretonneux - April 1918 by Peter Edgar Pdf

The brutal 1914 German invasion of Belgium and France had gained a large portion of both countries. Over three-and-a-half punishing years the Allies were slowly pushing the Germans back but in March 1918, Germany launched a massive spring offensive. Resting in the Ypres sector after the horrors of the Passchendaele campaign, the Australians were among the first sent south to try to block the enemy. Now, after an unprecedented fortnight of advance, Germany’s goal was to capture the town of Villers-Bretonneux, key to the major rail junction of Amiens. The first attempt on 4 April found the 9th Australian Infantry Brigade in the centre of the line. They stopped the enemy at the gates. Then on 24 April the Germans launched a new attack, led by tanks, and took the town. Standing by to counter-attack were the 15th and 13th brigades of the Australian Corps. Not everything went to plan and casualties were high, but the counter-attack was brilliantly executed in spite of the odds. It became ‘a soldier’s fight’ in which the Australian troops’ morale and eagerness to get to grips with the enemy, together with their aggressive, well-practised moves under fire triumphed. Counter Attack: Villers-Bretonneux – April 1918 details the pivotal role the Australians played in denying German victory. Villers-Bretonneux was never again threatened by the enemy.

Author : Peter H. Liddle
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473817081

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Passchendaele in Perspective by Peter H. Liddle Pdf

Passchendaele In Perspective explores the context and real nature of the participants experience, evaluates British and German High Command, the aerial and maritime dimensions of the battle, the politicians and manpower debates on the home front and it looks at the tactics employed, the weapons and equipment used, the experience of the British; German and indeed French soldiers. It looks thoroughly into the Commonwealth soldiers contribution and makes an unparalleled attempt to examine together in one volume specialist facets of the battle, the weather, field survey and cartography, discipline and morale, and the cultural and social legacy of the battle, in art, literature and commemoration. Each one of its thirty chapters presents a thought-provoking angle on the subject.They add up to an unique analysis of the battle from Commonwealth, American, German, French, Belgian and United Kingdom historians. This book will undoubtedly become a valued work of reference for all those with an interest in World War One.

Author : C. E. W. Bean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546845453

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Letters from France by C. E. W. Bean Pdf

Charles Bean's poetic writing style that paints a clear picture of the nightmare World War 1 trenches from the point of view of the soldier in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The author gives a true journalistic account of life during the battles of the Somme in World War 1.Excerpt from Letters from France."And what if some of us do pass over before this struggle is ended-what is there in that? If it were not for the dear ones whom he leaves behind him, mightn't a man almost pray for a death like that? The newspapers too often call us heroes, but we know we are not heroes for having come, and we do not want to be called heroes. We should have been less than men if we hadn't."

Author : Phillip Bradley
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742371238

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Charles Bean's Gallipoli by Phillip Bradley Pdf

Charles Bean and Gallipoli are forever closely bound. Serving as the official Australian war correspondent from the landing to the evacuation, Charles Bean was able to dedicate his days and nights to witnessing and recording the events that would form the Anzac legend. In writing his diaries, Bean also provided an extraordinary insight into his own emotions - his joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, loves and hates - and those he admired or disdained, the heroes and villains of the Anzac story. Charles Bean's Gallipoli extracts the essence of Gallipoli from his diaries and rewards the reader with a clearer understanding of what it was like to live and die there. Charles Bean's Gallipoli also showcases a remarkable collection of photographs, the majority of which were obtained from the private collections of soldiers who took their cameras to war. Most of these photographs, selected to illustrate Charles Bean's diary extracts, have not previously been published and provide another fascinating perspective on the Gallipoli campaign.

Author : C. E. W. Bean
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547367048

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Letters from France by C. E. W. Bean Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Letters from France" by C. E. W. Bean. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Jennifer Wellington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107135079

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Exhibiting War by Jennifer Wellington Pdf

A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War.