AUSTRALIAN MILITARY World War I

“The classic account of Australia’s fighting forces in the First World War”

Paperback reprint of a classic military history of Australia’s part in WWI, first published in 1946. The author was an official war correspondent with the Australian Imperial Force and edited the 12-volume official history of Australia’s fighting services. This book is a condensation of that official history, and describes major campaigns and strategies, as well as giving a brief political, social and industrial background. Includes maps and an index.

• xii, 567 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm. #220624 (Age tanning)
• I. Australia in 1914 1
• II. The First World War breaks out 20
• III. The Navy and New Guinea 28
• IV. The First Contingent sails 40
• V. Early problems of the Home Front 49
• VI. To the war theatres 59
• VII. The Landing, 25th April 1915 80
• VIII. “Anzac” and Helles 114
• IX. Holding on at Anzac 126
• X. The climax at Anzac 145
• XI. The last phase in Gallipoli 168
• XII. Australia doubles the A.I.F. 183
• XIII. The Western Front, 1916 197
• XIV. The start on the Somme-and Fromelles 217
• XV. 1916- Pozieres, and Mouquet Farm 237
• XVI. The defence of Egypt 270
• XVII. The Home Front, 1916-17 287
• XVIII. The Australian Navy, 1915-18 308
• XIX. 1917 (1) Bullecourt 314
• XX. 1917 (2) Messines 345
• XXI. 1917 (3) Third Ypres (Passchendaele) 357
• XXII. A great year in Palestine, 1917 377
• XXIII. Ludendorff strikes-March 1918 393
• XXIV. Saving Amiens and Hazebrouck 410
• XXV. Home Front, 1917-18 436
• XXVI. A crucial summer-the digger’s part 444
• XXVII. The climax: August-October 1918 469
• XXVIII. The last campaign in Palestine 495
• XXIX. The war ends 5
• XXX. The Peace Treaty 520
• XXXI. The Anzac legacy 529
• Territorial recruitment of the Australian Imperial Force in World War I 541.