Author: Ian D. Skennerton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959743814
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Australian Service Bayonets
Author: Ian D. Skennerton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959743814
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959743814
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Pens and Bayonets
Author:
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 1743056109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Pens and Bayonets gives voice to the young Australia soldiers who volunteered to fight for our freedom in the Great War. They answered the call willingly, with many thinking it may be all over before they got there. How wrong they were. South Australia, and Yorke Peninsula in particular, were proud to provide soldiers for their country. The letters were written during quiet periods and give us an insight and sometimes graphic account of the day-to-day encounters during the Gallipoli campaign and various offensives on the Western Front and Palestine. Communication options abound in the modern age, but imagine the challenges of 100 years ago, with your son, brother, uncle or nephew on the other side of the world, fighting in what we now know to be horrendous conditions, writing a letter home. It would take months for the letter to arrive. With the letter came a connection with family that gave a belief that their loved ones were safe and, importantly, the needed hope that the end of the Great War would bring them home. The letters the soldiers received, many weeks after being written, gave comfort and solace to these men, and provided their only contact with loved ones. Don Longo has gathered many of these moving letters, and set them in their historical context, to bring these soldiers back to life.
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 1743056109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Pens and Bayonets gives voice to the young Australia soldiers who volunteered to fight for our freedom in the Great War. They answered the call willingly, with many thinking it may be all over before they got there. How wrong they were. South Australia, and Yorke Peninsula in particular, were proud to provide soldiers for their country. The letters were written during quiet periods and give us an insight and sometimes graphic account of the day-to-day encounters during the Gallipoli campaign and various offensives on the Western Front and Palestine. Communication options abound in the modern age, but imagine the challenges of 100 years ago, with your son, brother, uncle or nephew on the other side of the world, fighting in what we now know to be horrendous conditions, writing a letter home. It would take months for the letter to arrive. With the letter came a connection with family that gave a belief that their loved ones were safe and, importantly, the needed hope that the end of the Great War would bring them home. The letters the soldiers received, many weeks after being written, gave comfort and solace to these men, and provided their only contact with loved ones. Don Longo has gathered many of these moving letters, and set them in their historical context, to bring these soldiers back to life.
Two Hundred Years of Australian Military Rifles & Bayonets
Author: Ian D. Skennerton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949749116
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949749116
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Bayonets & Barbed Wire
Author: Neville Browning
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958067492
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The history of the 16th Battalion AIF in World War 1. From the battalion's formation in West and South Australia to Gallipoli, Egypt and the Western Front. The 16th Battalion was one of the most highly awarded battalions of World War 1, with three Victoria Crosses. The 16th landed on Gallipoli on Anzac Day and fought desperate battles at Pope's Hill, Quinn's Post, Sari Bair and Hill 60. After the Gallipoli campaign, the 16th deployed to the Western Front and fought in the battles of Mouquet Farm, Bullecourt, Messines, Passchendaele, Hebuterne, Hamel, Amiens and the Hindenburg Outpost Line. This book describes in detail the history of the 16th throughout World War 1. The book has over 700 photos and has Appendices that include Honour Roll, Nominal Rolls, Honours and Awards, POW List and nominal index. Published in Australia.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958067492
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The history of the 16th Battalion AIF in World War 1. From the battalion's formation in West and South Australia to Gallipoli, Egypt and the Western Front. The 16th Battalion was one of the most highly awarded battalions of World War 1, with three Victoria Crosses. The 16th landed on Gallipoli on Anzac Day and fought desperate battles at Pope's Hill, Quinn's Post, Sari Bair and Hill 60. After the Gallipoli campaign, the 16th deployed to the Western Front and fought in the battles of Mouquet Farm, Bullecourt, Messines, Passchendaele, Hebuterne, Hamel, Amiens and the Hindenburg Outpost Line. This book describes in detail the history of the 16th throughout World War 1. The book has over 700 photos and has Appendices that include Honour Roll, Nominal Rolls, Honours and Awards, POW List and nominal index. Published in Australia.
British & Commonwealth Bayonets
Author: Ian D. Skennerton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949749048
Category : Bayonets
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949749048
Category : Bayonets
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Bayonets Abroad
Author: Australia. Australian Army. Australian Imperial Force (1940-1947). Battalion, 2/13th
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Fix Bayonets
Author: John W. Thomason, Jr.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Australian Service Longarms
Author: Ian D. Skennerton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959743807
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959743807
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Base Two, the Bayonet of Australia
Author: United States. Army
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military bases
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military bases
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
With Zeal and With Bayonets Only
Author: Matthew H. Spring
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806184221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought. This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the “American rebellion” at both operational and tactical levels. Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British tactical movements, Spring discloses how the system for training the army prior to 1775 was overhauled and adapted to the peculiar conditions confronting it in North America. First scrutinizing such operational problems as logistics, manpower shortages, and poor intelligence, Spring then focuses on battlefield tactics to examine how troops marched to the battlefield, deployed, advanced, and fought. In particular, he documents the use of turning movements, the loosening of formations, and a reliance on bayonet-oriented shock tactics, and he also highlights the army’s ability to tailor its tactical methods to local conditions. Written with flair and a wealth of details that will engage scholars and history enthusiasts alike, With Zeal and with Bayonets Only offers a thorough reinterpretation of how the British Army’s North American campaign progressed and invites serious reassessment of most of its battles.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806184221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought. This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the “American rebellion” at both operational and tactical levels. Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British tactical movements, Spring discloses how the system for training the army prior to 1775 was overhauled and adapted to the peculiar conditions confronting it in North America. First scrutinizing such operational problems as logistics, manpower shortages, and poor intelligence, Spring then focuses on battlefield tactics to examine how troops marched to the battlefield, deployed, advanced, and fought. In particular, he documents the use of turning movements, the loosening of formations, and a reliance on bayonet-oriented shock tactics, and he also highlights the army’s ability to tailor its tactical methods to local conditions. Written with flair and a wealth of details that will engage scholars and history enthusiasts alike, With Zeal and with Bayonets Only offers a thorough reinterpretation of how the British Army’s North American campaign progressed and invites serious reassessment of most of its battles.