Fromelles : The Story of Australia's Darkest Day, the Search for our Fallen Heroes of World War One by Patrick Lindsay - 2007

Hardie Grant Books, Prahran, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: photographs & maps. second-hand copy, dust jacket has no damage, very slight darkening of the lower edges of the text block, otherwise clean and free of annotation. Australia's worst military disaster, barely rates a mention in the history books in the name is absent from a war memorials. The author introduces us to some of our greatest – yet unknown – heroes and crosses the piles of characters include one of the German defenders at Fromelles, Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler. Includes appendices of the casualties, and a bibliography, & index. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 408 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs & maps. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Australia; WW I; history. ISBN: 1740665112.… Read More

Hardie Grant Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 1740665112 . Previous owner's neat name; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 408 pages .

408pp: Hardie Grant Books, 2007. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 408pp, index, ills. The story of a dark day in Australia's history and the search for our fallen heroes of World War One

Prahran, Hardie Grant first edition - hard cover in dust jacket After surviving Gallipoli, our Australian Diggers went into battle in the tiny French village of Fromelles, where on 19 July 1916 they suffered 5533 casualties, with almost 2000 killed. Against all odds, hundreds of our soldiers broke through the enemy lines, never to return. This war history takes us to the killing fields of the Great War and back to Australia to find the key to this unsolved mystery of WWI. 240 x 165mm., pp. 407, b/w plates, The Missing Diggers, index. No inscriptions. NEAR FINE/FINE ISBN: 9781740665117