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  • Maestro John Monash

    Australia's Greatest Citizen General

    de Tim Fischer ...
    Series series Biography
    "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 and play its phrase in the general harmony." -- John Monash *** Who was the most innovative general of World ... Leer más

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  • Monash

    The fascinating life of the WWI soldier who shaped modern Australia from the bestselling award winning author of THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY and HUDSON FYSH

    Stunning trade paperback edition of Grantlee Kieza's bestselling biography of Australia's greatest generalIt's December 1918 and the world war is over. General Sir John Monash attends a glittering banquet to dine with the King of England and the likes of Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling. Just four months earlier, the commander of the Australian Corps had been knighted in a ... Leer más

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  • Great Britain's Great War

    de Jeremy Paxman ...
    Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.***We may think we know about it, but what was life really like for the British people during the First World War?The well-known images - the pointing finger of Lord Kitchener; a Tommy buried in the mud of the Western Front; the ... Leer más

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  • 1919

    Britain's Year of Revolution

    de Simon Webb ...
    The little-known true story of rioting and rebellion among British veterans and workers after the end of World War I.On the August Bank Holiday of 1919, the government in London dispatched warships to the northern city of Liverpool in an overwhelming show of force. Thousands of troops, backed by tanks, had been trying without success to suppress disorder on the streets.Earlier that year in London, ... Leer más

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  • Britain and Victory in the Great War

    de Peter Liddle ...
    How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile the different perspectives and draw clear conclusions. That is why this thought-provoking ... Leer más

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  • The Flowers of the Forest

    Scotland and the First World War

    de Trevor Royle ...
    The author of Culloden details the effects of World War I on Scotland.On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as "the workshop of the Empire." Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition ... Leer más

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  • Operation Sea Lion

    The Failed Nazi Invasion That Turned the Tide of War

    de Leo McKinstry ...
    This "immaculately researched and compellingly written" WWII history sheds new light on Britain's critical victory against Nazi invasion ( The New Criterion).In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway, and the Low Countries were all under occupation. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph, and Hitler planned a two-pronged offensive?a ... Leer más

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  • Passchendaele

    Requiem for Doomed Youth

    de Paul Ham ...
    Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the war: blackened tree stumps rising out of a field of mud, corpses of men and horses drowned in shell holes, terrified soldiers huddled in trenches awaiting the whistle.The intervening century, the most ... Leer más

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  • Charles Bean

    Joint winner: Prize for Australian History, 2015 Prime Minister's Literary AwardsThis award-winning biography is a long overdue reassessment of the iconic Australian war correspondent'The book I have enjoyed most in recent times has been Ross Coulthart's on the great war correspondent Charles Bean' - Peter FitzSimons, Sun Herald'Fascinating biography ... strongly recommend it'Hon. Malcolm Turnbull ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Broken Nation

    Australians in the Great War

    de Joan Beaumont ...
    The Australian experience of war in all its complexity - from the homefront as well as the battlefront - as the men and women who experienced it chose to understand and remember it.Winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History.The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli ... Leer más

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  • The Gallipoli Letter

    de Keith Murdoch ...
    In September 1915, Keith Murdoch, then a young war journalist, wrote an 8000-word letter to the Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher. 'The Gallipoli Letter', as it came to be known, changed the course of the Gallipoli campaign.The letter, protesting against the conduct of the campaign and describing conditions at the front, is both intimate and conversational: 'I shall talk to you as if you were by my ... Leer más

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  • Advance Britannia

    The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945

    de Alan Allport ...
    **The author of *Britain at Bay—*which The Wall Street Journal said may be “the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written”—picks up his sweeping social history in 1942, when what was once a regional war has become an intricate, globe-spanning conflict, with profound consequences for the British Empire and for a British people ... Leer más

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