Jonathan King

The Western Front Diaries: The Anzacs' Own Story, Battle by Battle

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A special 100th-anniversary edition.Long overshadowed by the national obsession with the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign, the breathtaking story of what really happened on the Western Front has finally been brought into the bright light of day.The Anzacs' Western Front campaign had a greater impact than Gallipoli in almost every respect: five times more soldiers served and were killed there, more than five times as many battles took place - and it was there that an astounding 53 Victoria Crosses were awarded to Australians. The diggers serving on the Western Front also helped win the war, but it was at an almost unfathomable cost.Using hundreds… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-925106-69-5
EAN: 9781925106695
Produktnummer: 34979713
Verlag: Scribe Pubn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 544 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.5 cm x D4.3 cm 703 g
Gewicht: 703

Über den Autor

Award-winning historian Dr Jonathan King is the author of Gallipoli Diaries: the Anzacs' own story, day by day (Scribe, 2014), and has been producing books and films about World War I since 1994. He leads battlefield tours to Gallipoli and the Western Front, and is a regular television and radio commentator, as well as a writer for newspapers. After lecturing at The University of Melbourne for many years, he has written more than 30 books and produced 20 documentaries. He is based in Sydney with his fellow adventurer and wife, Jane. They have four daughters and seven grandchildren.