The Lost Legions of Fromelles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Legions of Fromelles write by Peter Barton. This book was released on 2014-07-17. The Lost Legions of Fromelles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intended as a diversion from the Somme, Fromelles was was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history, and is recognised as one of the bloodiest and most useless battles of the First World War. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. In one night, British and Australian soldiers suffered casualties equivalent to the total toll of the Boer War, Korean War and Vietnam War combined. Barton's research has revealed that the Australian frontline troops gave away critical Allied secrets to the Germans... which not only led directly to the Fromelles slaughter - but also contributed to the failure of the Somme offensive as a whole. The Lost Legions of Fromelles is the most authoritative book on this staggering disaster, combining new scholarship on the battle with an account of recent events to dispel many myths in a rich and compelling history.
Fromelles and Pozières
Fromelles and Pozières - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fromelles and Pozières write by Peter FitzSimons. This book was released on 2016-10-03. Fromelles and Pozières available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Trenches of Hell On July 19, 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial describes as 'the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history. Just days later, three Australian Divisions attacked German positions at nearby Pozières, and over the next six weeks they suffered another 23,000 casualties. Of that bitter battle, the great Australian war correspondent Charles Bean would write, "The field of Pozières is more consecrated by Australian fighting and more hallowed by Australian blood than any field which has ever existed . . ." Yet the sad truth is that, nearly a century on from those battles, Australians know only a fraction of what occurred. This book brings the battles back to life and puts the reader in the moment, illustrating both the heroism displayed and the insanity of the British plan. With his extraordinary vigour and commitment to research, Peter FitzSimons shows why this is a story about which all Australians can be proud. And angry.
Fromelles: The Final Chapters
Fromelles: The Final Chapters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fromelles: The Final Chapters write by Tim Lycett. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Fromelles: The Final Chapters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For Honour. For Courage. For Remembrance. The Battle of Fromelles in France during the First World War was Australia's worst 24 hours. Thousands of men were shot down amid the horror of that blundered attack. The whereabouts of hundreds of dead soldiers was unknown for almost a century until the discovery in 2008 of unmarked mass graves at Pheasant Wood. The remains of these 250 men sparked a mission to reclaim their identities. Tim Lycett and Sandra Playle became key players in the identification project, volunteering their time and working alongside other amateur advocates and international experts. Tim tells how they pieced together fragments of information from relics, military records and family histories using genealogy data and DNA analysis. They fought to have authorities reopen investigations in their quest to find the untold stories of the diggers and reconnect them with their families. This is an inspiring, heart-rending account of war, its aftermath and its effect on the lives of the lost diggers' descendants.
The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 ...
The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 ... - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 ... write by . This book was released on 1935. The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 ... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lost Legions of Fromelles
The Lost Legions of Fromelles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Legions of Fromelles write by Peter Barton. This book was released on 2014-07-01. The Lost Legions of Fromelles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The action at Fromelles in July 1916 is Australia's most catastrophic military failure. The story has always appeared simple, but in truth history did not unfold in the way we have for so long been led to believe. Peter Barton has written an authoritative and revelatory book on Fromelles. He describes its long and surprising genesis, and offers an unexpected account of the fighting; he investigates the interrogation of Anglo-Australian prisoners, and the results of shrewd German propaganda techniques; and he explores the circumstances surrounding the 'missing' Pheasant Wood graves. He also brings a new perspective to the writings of Charles Bean. This compelling and illuminating history dispels many a myth surrounding one of the bloodiest battlefields of the Great War.
