The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse

Author: Peter FitzSimons
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733646654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668

Book Description
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened in the next hour changed the course of history. This brave battle and the extraordinary adventures that led to it are brought vividly to life by Australia's greatest storyteller, Peter FitzSimons. It is an epic tale of farm boys, drovers, bank clerks, dentists, poets and scoundrels transported to fight a war half a world away, and is full of incredible characters: from Major Banjo Paterson to Lawrence of Arabia; the brilliant writer Trooper Ion Idriess and the humble General Harry Chauvel; the tearaway Test fast bowler 'Tibby' Cotter and the infamous warhorse, Bill the Bastard. All have their part to play in the enthralling, sprawling drama of the Australian Light Horse. Theirs was a war fought in an ancient land with modern weapons; where the men of the Light Horse were trained in sight of the pyramids, drank in the brothels of Cairo and fought through lands known to them only as names from the Bible. The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse traces the hard path of the Light Horse from the bleakest of starts - being deprived of their horses and fighting at Gallipoli in the tragic Battle of the Nek - to triumph and glory in the desert. Revealing the feats of the Australians who built the legend, it is a brilliantly told tale of courage, resilience and derring-do from Australia's favourite storyteller.

Combat Colonels

Author: David Clare Holloway
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1922132985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Combat Colonels seeks to address the regrettable gap in Australia's documented history of its combat colonels. Its purpose is to name all the Commanding Officers who led units into actions in the Great War and to describe their lives before and, for those who survived, after the war. From these pages emerge the men who shaped Australia's battlefield history - both the professional soldiers and the former teachers, accountants, salesmen, clerks, farmers and others from a broad range of occupations whose leadership on and off the battlefield proved so crucial. These are men Australia cannot afford to forget.

Light Horse

Author: Jean Bou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521197082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
Based on extensive research from both Australia and Britain, this book is a comprehensive history of the Australian Light Horse in war and peace, from its antecedents in the middle of the 19th century until the disbandment of the last regiment in 1944.

A History of the British Cavalry

Author: Lord Anglesey
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783835702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
Volume V covers the last glory days of cavalry in World War I's Middle Eastern theater, as British, Indian, Australian and New Zealand cavalry conducted some of the most brilliant mounted operations of all time.

The British Empire and the First World War

Author: Ashley Jackson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317374657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description
The British Empire played a crucial part in the First World War, supplying hundreds of thousands of soldiers and labourers as well as a range of essential resources, from foodstuffs to minerals, mules, and munitions. In turn, many imperial territories were deeply affected by wartime phenomena, such as inflation, food shortages, combat, and the presence of large numbers of foreign troops. This collection offers a comprehensive selection of essays illuminating the extent of the Empire’s war contribution and experience, and the richness of scholarly research on the subject. Whether supporting British military operations, aiding the British imperial economy, or experiencing significant wartime effects on the home fronts of the Empire, the war had a profound impact on the colonies and their people. The chapters in this volume were originally published in Australian Historical Studies, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, First World War Studies or The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.

The British Imperial Army in the Middle East

Author: James E. Kitchen
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 147251131X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
The First World War has often been understood in terms of the combat experiences of soldiers on the Western Front; those combatants who served in the other theatres of the war have been neglected. Using personal testimonies, official documentation and detailed research from a diverse range of archives, The British Imperial Army in the Middle East explores the combat experiences of these soldiers. The army that fought the Ottoman Empire was a multinational and multi-ethnic force, drawing personnel from across Britain's empire, including Australia, New Zealand, and India. By taking a transnational and imperial perspective on the First World War, this book ensures that the campaigns in Egypt and Palestine are considered in the wider context of an empire mobilised to fight a total and global war.

A History of the British Cavalry, 1816 to 1919

Author: George Charles Henry Victor Paget Marquis of Anglesey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cavalry
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description

Not Sparing the Child: Human Sacrifice in the Ancient World and Beyond

Author: Vita Daphna Arbel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567352633
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
The role of human sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world and its implications continue to be topics that fire the popular imagination and engender scholarly discussion and controversy. This volume provides balanced and judicious treatments of the various facets of these topics from a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. It provides nuanced examinations of ancient ritual, exploring the various meanings that human sacrifice held for antiquity, and examines its varied repercussions up into the modern world. The book explores evidence to shed new light on the origins of the rite, to whom these sacrifices were offered, and by whom they were performed. It presents fresh insights into the social and religious meanings of this practice in its varied biblical landscape and ancient contexts, and demonstrates how human sacrifice has captured the imagination of later writers who have employed it in diverse cultural and theological discourses to convey their own views and ideologies. It provides valuable perspectives for understanding key cultural, theological and ideological dimensions, such as the sacrifice of Christ, scapegoating,self-sacrifice and martyrdom in post-biblical and modern times.

My Darling Mick

Author: Phoebe Vincent
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642106674
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
My Darling Mick is an engaging biography of a colourful Australian personality, General Sir Granville Ryrie. Much of Ryrie's story is told through a series of candid letters, written to his wife, Mary, whom he affectionately called Mick, which describing the gruelling conditions endured by Australian troops during the Boer War and the First World War.

Light Horse

Author: Elyne Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Gallipoli - Battle of Romani - Battle for Katia - El Arish - Gaza - Boer War - Battle of Beersheba.