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Maestro John Monash : Australia's greatest citizen general : Melbourne, Jerilderie, Gallipoli, Amiens and beyond /
""A perfected modern battle plan is like nothing so much as a score for an orchestral composition, where the various arms and units are the instruments, and the tasks they perform are their respective musical phrases. Every individual unit must make its entry precisely at the proper moment...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clayton, Victoria :
Monash University Publishing,
2015.
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| Colección: | Biography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; About the author; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Inspiration; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; SECTION ONE; BEFORE THE GREAT WAR; Early Years in Jerilderie and Melbourne; Of Marriage, Bridges and Concrete; The Second AIF Convoy; From Melbourne via Albanyand Colombo, to Egypt; SECTION TWO; THE WORLD AT WAR; Gallipoli's Bitter Lessons Learnt; Monash on the Western Front ; The Battle of Hamel ; A Supreme Commander, and the Upper Hand at Last; From Amiens to Armistice; A Bitter-sweet End; The Last Day of the Great War; SECTION THREE; MONASH POSTWAR.
- The Buckingham Palace Banquet of BanquetsRepatriation and Demobilisation; A Year of Reflection in London; Postwar discrimination from Bean and Hughes; A Belated Promotion to Four Star General; Thoughts on 'Dinkum' Monash from Diggers, Colonels and Generals ; Devoid of any Virtue?; Remembering the Great War ; A Way of Saying 'Thanks'; Field Marshals, British and Otherwise; The Field Marshal Rank; Giving John Monash His Due; Postscript and Concluding Comments; APPENDICES; Appendix A; How to Secure Posthumous Promotion of Sir John Monash; Appendix B; Letter from Buckingham Palace, February 2014.
- Appendix CSeating Plan Buckingham Palace Banquet,27 December 1918; References; Index.