Hell-Bent : Australia's leap into the Great War / Douglas Newton.
Hell-Bent : Australia's leap into the Great War / Douglas Newton.
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Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2014.
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English
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1 online resource (352 pages)
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Cabinet crisis -- 2. Premonitions -- 3. Nightmares -- 4. Double dissolution -- 5. Slip-sliding to war -- 6. 'Warning telegram' -- 7. Champing at the bit -- 8. Looming love-of-Empire auction -- 9. View from 'Yaralla' -- 10. View from the Customs House -- 11. 'A good war-cry' -- 12...
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Publisher
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2014.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2014.
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Summary
Most histories of Australia's Great War rush their readers into the trenches. This history is very different. For the first time, it examines events closely, even hour-by-hour, in both Britain and Australia during the last days of peace in July-August 1914. London's choice for war was a very close-run thing. At the height of the diplomatic crisis l...
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Hell-Bent : Australia's leap into the Great War / Douglas Newton.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
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Mode of access: Available online.
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74VKamMw65zd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKamMw65zd
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9781925113365 EPUB :
DDC
940.32241
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991024332677702626
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National edeposit: Onsite at State Library of New South Wales
