Our Great Hearted Men. The Australian Corps and the 100 Days. by Brune, Peter - 2019

HarperCollins Australia, 2021. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIAN MILITARY The AIF and the Hundred Days Battlefields such as Gallipoli, Fromelles, Pozières, Bullecourt and Passchendaele are burnt into the Australian Great War psyche. Unfortunately the sheer guts, fortitude and sacrifice of the diggers in those battles had often been wasted by poor leadership and planning. From an Australian perspective, such sacrifice engendered bitterness and frustration, which resulted in an emergent sense of Australian nationalism. The AIF now sought a unification of its five divisions to fight under its own command and administration. By mid-1918, after the calamitous German March offensive in which 1200 square miles of hard-won territory had been lost, the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) had begun to learn its lessons. In just 100 action-packed days Germany was brought to its knees. And Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash and his Australian Corps played a critical role in that stunning victory. In this… Read More

London: Harper Collins, 2019. 1st edition. Nice Copy. octavo. dust jacket 457pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., bibliog., index, Hamel, Amiens, Mont St Quentin, Peronne, Hindenburg Line