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Before the Anzac dawn : a military history of Australia before 1915 /

This book provides a comprehensive and compelling account of Australian military history before any soldier set foot on Gallipoli. It shows that this pre-1915 history has largely been forgotten. Indeed the extent to which Australians thought about war and experienced war before ANZAC existed will s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stockings, Craig, 1974- (Editor ), Connor, John (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2013.
Edición:[International edition].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Traditional Indigenous warfare; 2. Frontier warfare in Australia; 3. British soldiers in colonial Australia; 4. The battle for the Eureka Stockade; 5. Australian naval defence; 6. Australians in the New Zealand Wars; 7. The rifle clubs; 8. Australia's boy soldiers: The army cadet movement; 9. Australians in the wars in Sudan and South Africa; 10. Radical nationalists and Australian invasion novels; 11. Edwardian transformation; 12. The capture of German New Guinea; Notes; Index.