Pozieres

Author : Christopher Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316241114
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pozières written by Christopher Wray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In this important book, Christopher Wray explores the influence of Pozières on Australian society and history, and how it is remembered today. In the opening chapters he revisits the battle and considers its aftermath, including shell shock and the psychological effects experienced by surviving soldiers. The concluding chapters examine the way in which the battle has been commemorated in literature and art, and the extent to which it has been overlooked in contemporary remembrance of the war. Generously illustrated with photographs, maps and paintings, Pozières: Echoes of a Distant Battle is essential reading for anyone interested in the First World War and Australia's post-war society.

Author : Graham Keech
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850525896
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pozieres written by Graham Keech and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village sits on top of the ridge that bears its name, a ridge that was an objective on the 1st July 1916. As it was, the whole position was not finally cleared until early September 1916 as German, Australian and British troops fought tenaciously over it.

Author : Meleah Hampton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1925675602
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Pozieres 1916 written by Meleah Hampton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Pozières has reverberated throughout Australia’s military history, long regarded as a costly battle that produced little meaningful gain. Pozières was characterised by the most intense artillery bombardment the Australians had experienced in the war thus far and ‘the hell that was Pozières’ became the yardstick by which subsequent bombardments were measured. The 13th Battalion’s Frank Massey described men who became ‘blithering idiots … Crying and weeping and — absolutely useless as a fighting man.’ The object of the battle was Pozières Ridge, a low rise that offered a good view of the German positions. Heavily fortified, the ridge and the pulverised remains of the village were contested bitterly and, during its six-week campaign, 1st Anzac Corps advanced little more than two miles and suffered 23,000 casualties. Charles Bean wrote that ‘Australian troops … fell more thickly on this ridge than on any other battlefield of the war.’ However, the first phase of the campaign was very successful, securing the fortified ruins of Pozières and the German second line. But follow-up operations failed to capitalise and subsequent assaults merely nibbled away at enemy positions without making significant headway. Yet the Battle of Pozières marks a significant achievement not only for 1st Anzac Corps, but for the British Expeditionary Force. In a war in which any advance was hard won, the wresting of the high ground from the Germans was crucial. For the battered Allied forces, the capture of Pozières Ridge provided faint hope of an end to a catastrophic war.

Author : Scott Bennett
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1922247480
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pozieres written by Scott Bennett and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozières. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task. At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands of Australians stormed Pozières. Forty-five days later they were relieved, having suffered 23,000 casualties to gain a few miles of barren landscape. Despite the toll, the operation was heralded as a stunning victory. Yet for the exhausted survivors, the war-weary public, and the families of the dead and maimed, victory came at a terrible cost. Drawing on the letters and diaries of the men who fought at Pozières, this superb book reveals a battlefield drenched in chaos and fear. Bennett sheds light on the story behind the official history, re-creating the experiences of those men who fought in one of the largest and most devastating battles of the Great War and returned home, all too often, as shattered men.

Author : Peter Charlton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pozières written by Peter Charlton and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143783300
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fromelles and Pozières written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Trenches of Hell On July 19, 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial describes as 'the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history. Just days later, three Australian Divisions attacked German positions at nearby Pozières, and over the next six weeks they suffered another 23,000 casualties. Of that bitter battle, the great Australian war correspondent Charles Bean would write, "The field of Pozières is more consecrated by Australian fighting and more hallowed by Australian blood than any field which has ever existed . . ." Yet the sad truth is that, nearly a century on from those battles, Australians know only a fraction of what occurred. This book brings the battles back to life and puts the reader in the moment, illustrating both the heroism displayed and the insanity of the British plan. With his extraordinary vigour and commitment to research, Peter FitzSimons shows why this is a story about which all Australians can be proud. And angry.

Author : Peter Charlton
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australians on the Somme: Pozieres 1916 written by Peter Charlton and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Meleah Hampton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925675597
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle of Pozieres: 1916 written by Meleah Hampton and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Poziéres has reverberated throughout Australia's military history, long regarded as a costly battle that produced little meaningful gain. Poziéres was characterised by the most intense artillery bombardment the Australians had experienced in the war thus far and 'the hell that was Poziéres' became the yardstick by which subsequent ......

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
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Download or read book The Japan Daily Mail written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: