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.