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Part title; Other books by Jonathan King; Title page; Foreword; Contents; Introduction; Timeline; Vinegar Hill, 5 March 1804 The Irish Rebellion comes to Australi?a; Eureka Rebellion, 3 December 1854 The bloody battle for democratic rights; Boer War, 24 July 1900 Australia's first Victoria Cross;...

Courtney's Post, 19 May 1915 'Australian bastards' repulse massive Turkish counterattackLone Pine, 6-10 Augus?t 1915 'The greatest bastard in the world'; The Nek, Gallipoli, 7 August 1915 Slaughter on the tennis court of death; Fromelles, 19-20 July 1916 Australia's blackest battle; Pozières, 2...

Polygon Wood, 26 September 1917 Premonitions of death at Polygon WoodBroodseinde, 4 October 1917 Attacking forces meet head-on; Passchendaele, 12 October 1917 The bloody muddy hell of Passchendaele; Beersheba, 31 October 1917 History's last successful cavalry charge; Villers-Bretonneux, 24-25 Ap...

Montbrehain, 5 October 1918 Agony's endCapturing Tobruk, 21-22 January 1941 Capture of the Italian fortress; The siege of Tobruk, 11 April-7 December 1941 Enter the Rats of Tobruk; German raider sinks HMAS Sydney, 19 November 1941 Australia's worst naval disaster; The fall of Singapore, 8-15 Fe...

First El Alamein, 1-27 July 1942 Outfoxing the Desert FoxMilne Bay, 25 August-?7 September 1942 Japan's abortive 'Gallipoli' landing; Kokoda Track, 29 August 1942 Chocolate soldiers halt Japs at Isurava; Second El Alamein, 23 October-5 November 1942 Chasing the Fox out of the desert; Balikpapa...