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The Anzacs: Gallipoli to the Western Front

Door Peter Pederson

Categorie	Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer	#323118-KB22
Titel	The Anzacs: Gallipoli to the Western Front
Auteur	Pederson, Peter
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Viking
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	0670041246
ISBN13	9780670041244
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original cloth, illustrations mostly in b/w (some in colour) 4to.
Samenvatting	This important book traces the evolution of the Australian Imperial Force from the enthusiastic amateurs of Gallipoli to the skilled warriors of the Western Front, where fighting in conditions of unspeakable horror and brutality they won their legendary reputation as 'the best infantrymen of the war and perhaps of all time'. By war's end the Australian Corps - a mere 9 per cent of the total British force - accounted for 22 per cent of total captures: a massive, and disproportionate, contribution to victory. Combining detailed battle narratives with soldiers' accounts, Peter Pedersen moves from Gallipoli through Palestine to the Western Front, graphically recreating the campaigns of a war in which over 200,000 Australians - two out of every three combatants - were killed or wounded. Includi... (Lees verder)ng the New Zealanders at every stage, he also covers the war in the air and at sea, in dressing posts and hospitals, and on a home front devastated by casualty rates and riven over conscription. Illustrated with over 300 photographs and artworks, this epic work recalls to memory the forgotten heroes, and the bloody campaigns, of a war that brought glory to the Australian nation but tragedy to every Australian family.
Pagina's	447
Conditie	Goed — Book plate on half title.
Prijs	€ 12,50

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