Pozières : echoes of a distant battle /

From July to September 1916, some 23,000 Australians were killed or wounded in the Battle of Pozières. It was the first strategically important engagement by Australian soldiers on the Western Front and its casualties exceeded those of any other battle of the First World War, including Gallipoli. I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wray, Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Colección:Australian Army history series.
Temas:
Great Britain. > Army. > Australian and New Zealand Army Corps > History.
Great Britain. > Army. > Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
1900-1999
World War, 1914-1918 > Participation, Australian.
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > France > Pozières.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Military campaigns.
Military participation > Australian.
Pozières (France) > History > 20th century.
France > Pozières.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude to Poziéres
  • A place of sinister name and tragic happenings
  • A huge and horrible slaughter house
  • Mouquet Farm
  • The dead
  • The maimed, the halt, the lame
  • Those made mad by war
  • The conscription campaign of 1916
  • Writing about Pozières
  • Painting and Pozières
  • Appendix: Structure of the first AIF in 1916.

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