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Before the Anzac dawn : a military history of Australia before 1915 /
Providing a comprehensive and compelling account of Australian military history before the failed Gallipoli campaign, this study demonstrates the extent to which this pre-World War I history has been forgotten. It begins with detailed accounts of both traditional Indigenous warfare and frontier wars...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney :
NewSouth Publishing,
2013.
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| Edición: | [North & South American 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.