Pozières : echoes of a distant battle / Christopher Wray.
Pozières : echoes of a distant battle / Christopher Wray.
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H 2015/2717
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English
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xii, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
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:...
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From July to September 1916, some 23,000 Australians were killed or wounded in the battle of Pozières. It was the first major engagement by Australian soldiers on the Western Front and its casualties exceeded those of any other battle during the First World War, including Gallipoli. In this important book, Christopher Wray explores the impact Pozi...
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Pozières : echoes of a distant battle / Christopher Wray.
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Australian Army history series.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed 2015.
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H 2015/2717
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74VK7OpzegzX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7OpzegzX
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ISBN
1107093481 hardback
9781107093485 hardback
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940.41294
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991022778899702626
