1918 year of victory : the end of the Great War and the shaping of history
2010
Large Print
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1918: Year of Victory, convened by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra in November 2008 to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the end of the Great War. Ashley Ekins (volume editor) is Head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Main title:
1918 year of victory : the end of the Great War and the shaping of history / edited by Ashley Ekins.
Edition:
EasyRead large print ed.
Imprint:
[Sydney] : Read How You Want/Accessible, 2010.
Collation:
xxxiii, 526 p. (large print) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes:
ISBN 9781921497421 on t.p. verso is for Exisle Publishing ed.Originally published: Auckland, N.Z. : Exisle Publishing, c2010.Set in 16 pt. Verdana.Includes index and bibliography.
Contents:
1. 1918: The road to victory / Jay Winter -- 2. Stabbed in the front: The German defeat in 1918 / Robin Prior -- 3. Finest hour? British forces on the Western Front in 1918: An overview / Gary Sheffield -- 4. From victory to defeat: The German army in 1918 / Robert T. Foley -- 5. A French victory, 1918 / Elizabeth Greenhalgh -- 6. The cost of inexperience: Americans on the Western Front, 1918 / Meleah Ward -- 7. Fighting to exhaustion: Morale, discipline and combat effectiveness in the armies of 1918 / Ashley Ekins -- 8. Maintaining the advance: Monash, battle procedure and the Australian Corps in 1918 / Peter Pedersen -- 9. Bloody Bapaume: New Zealand soldiers battle for the town, August-September 1918 / Glyn Harper -- 10. Bloody victory: The Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Campaign / Tim Cook -- 11. Victory at sea, 1918 / David Stevens and James Goldrick -- 12. Victory in the air, 1918 / Peter Hart -- 13. The peace settlement of 1919 and its aftermath / Trevor Wilson -- 14. The veterans' voice: The Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia, 1916-19 / Martin Grotty -- 15. Ninety years on: Recent and changing views on the military history of the First World War / Stephen Badsey.
ISBN:
9781458752307
Dewey class:
940.434
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
269153
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLADESVILLE | ADULT LARGE PRINT | LP NINE | Available |