Author: BLAIR, DALE.
Title: Dinkum Diggers. An Australian Battalion at War.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. x, 246; 16 pages of b/w photographic plates, numerous maps throughout, notes, bibliography, index; original stiff illustrated wrapper, a fine copy. (Carlton South), Melbourne University Press, (2001). This penetrating study strips away celebratory generalisations and measures the Anzac legend against the actual experiences of one battalion that fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in World War 1. The diaries and letters written by soldiers of the 1st Battalion reveal attitudes, insights and criticisms that qualify and even contradict the Anzac legend.
Keywords: Australia Australian military history Gallipoli World War One ww1 Western Front
Title: Dinkum Diggers. An Australian Battalion at War.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. x, 246; 16 pages of b/w photographic plates, numerous maps throughout, notes, bibliography, index; original stiff illustrated wrapper, a fine copy. (Carlton South), Melbourne University Press, (2001). This penetrating study strips away celebratory generalisations and measures the Anzac legend against the actual experiences of one battalion that fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in World War 1. The diaries and letters written by soldiers of the 1st Battalion reveal attitudes, insights and criticisms that qualify and even contradict the Anzac legend.
Keywords: Australia Australian military history Gallipoli World War One ww1 Western Front
Price: AUD 45.00 = appr. US$ 31.13 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 118837
- Book number: 118837