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ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
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Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more
Anzac's Story (War Popular Penguin) by Roy A.I.F. Kyle
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Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier. Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typi ...Show more
Australia in Arms (War Popular Penguin) by Phillip Schuler
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Phillip Schuler, alongside C.E.W. Bean, was one of Australia's key First World War correspondents. A soldier as well as a journalist, he died on 23 June 1917 of wounds received at Armentieres. His legacy was Australia in Arms, an extraordinary and evocative account of the Australian Imperial Force and t ...Show more
Flesh in Armour: War Popular Penguins by Mann Leonard
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Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Nearly 420 000 Australians enlisted during the First World War, and more than half were killed, wounded or captured. the conflict was the most costly in Australia's history. In the fates of his protagonists in his acclaimed Flesh in Armour - one dies valiantly, one dies in an abject and mentally unhinge ...Show more
Generals Die in Bed: War Popular Penguins by Charles Yale Harrison
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Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
All war is hell. But for troops serving in World War I, it was the bloodiest trench warfare ever known. GENERALS DIE IN BED is a first-hand account of one young man catapulted from new recruit to walking wounded on the Western Front.From day one, he's surrounded by mud and fear. Artillery whistles down ...Show more
Goodbye to All That (War Popular Penguin) by Robert Graves
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Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Robert Graves tells the extraordinary story of his experiences as a young officer in the First World War. He describes life in the trenches in vivid, raw detail, how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked. ...Show more
Middle Parts of Fortune (War Popular Penguin) by Frederic Manning
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Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
Bourne is a private fighting on the front. Self-reliant and articulate, he is under pressure to accept a commission, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into the universal struggle for survival in a world gone mad. An attempt to understand the inexplicable, Manning's moving and powerful work is ...Show more
The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins by Patsy Adam-Smith
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Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was no time for escape or burial. and when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European Campaign. Patsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about t ...Show more
The Penguin Book of First World war Poetry (War Popular Penguin) by George Walter
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Category: Poetry | Series: War Popular Penguins
Unrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains, and the themes cover the different experiences of war, not just for the soldiers but for those left behind as well. Inclu ...Show more
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