Farewell, Dear People

Author: Ross McMullin
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 1921844663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609

Book Description
An analysis of the individuals making up the lost generation of WWI. They involve a range of backgrounds and experiences, all states and classes, and come from a variety of military units, not just the infantry.

Life So Full of Promise

Author: Ross McMullin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922585820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Acclaimed historian and biographer Ross McMullin has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in this sequel to Farewell, Dear People, the winner of multiple awards, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Life So Full of Promise,his second multi-biography about Australia's lost generation of World War I, features a collection of interwoven stories set in that defining era. The extended biographies give prominence not only to the extraordinary identities who died, but also to their families and friends. The rich cast of characters includes a talented barrister whose outstanding leadership enabled a momentous Australian victory; an eminent newspaper editor who kept his community informed about the war while his sons were in the trenches; a soldiers' mother who became a political activist and a Red Cross dynamo at Bendigo; an admired farmer whose unit was rushed to the rescue in the climax of the conflict; the close sisters from Melbourne who found their lives transformed; a popular officer who was more fervently mourned than any other Australian casualty; the most versatile top-level sportsman Australia has ever known; and a bohemian Scandinavian blonde who disrupted one of Sydney's best-known families. Also revealed is the untold story of an enthusiastic cricketer who was chosen in an Australian national side to tour England, and the surprising explanation for his decision not to go. In addition, there is a superb biography of a brilliant yet practically unknown cricketer whose stunning feat has never been matched. The storytelling is superlative, illuminating, and profoundly moving.

Pompey Elliott

Author: Ross McMullin
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 192137201X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 739

Book Description
"Pompey Elliott was a remarkable Australian. During the Great War he was a charismatic, controversial, and outstandingly successful military leader. An accomplished tactician and the bravest of the brave, he was renowned for never sending anyone anywhere he was not prepared to go himself. As a result, no Australian general was more revered by those he led or more famous outside his own command. An officer on his staff even concluded that no greater soldier or gentleman ever lived."--Provided by publisher.

Beersheba

Author: Paul Daley
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522855997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
The Battle of Beersheba, a redeeming win for the ANZACs who lost at Gallipoli, has slipped through the cracks of Australia's historical consciousness. Why are Australians so much more content to commemmorate a glorious defeat than we are to celebrate such a resounding, against the odds, victory?

Australia 1942

Author: Peter Dean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703227X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
This book explores the way in which Australia confronted the challenge of the shadow of war in 1942.

A Farewell to Arms

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476764522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
An unforgettable World War I story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for an English nurse.

Pompey Elliott at War

Author: Ross McMullin
Publisher: Scribe Us
ISBN: 9781947534209
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544

Book Description
Hundreds of Australian first-person narratives of World War I have been published, but none more riveting than this one. The wartime letters and diaries of Pompey Elliott, Australia's most famous fighting general, are exceptionally forthright. They are also remarkably illuminating about his volatile emotions. Pompey not only wrote frankly about what happened to him and the men he was commanding; he was also frank about what hefelt about both. Having arranged a no-secrets pact with his wife for their correspondence before he left Australia in 1914, he adhered to that agreement throughout the conflict. Moreover, Pompey expressed himself with vivid candour in his diaries and other correspondence. He wrote rapidly and fluently, with fertile imagery, a flair for simile, and an engaging turn of phrase. His extraordinary letters to his young children turned even the Western Front into a bedtime story. Pompey was prominent in iconic battles and numerous controversies. He was wounded at the Gallipoli landing, and four of his men were awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery at Lone Pine. No one was more instrumental than Pompey in turning looming defeat into stunning victory at both Polygon Wood and Villers-Bretonneux. No Australian general was more revered by those he led or more famous outside his own command. Ross McMullin, the author of the award-winning and best-selling biographyPompey Elliott, has collected Pompey's words from a variety of sources and shaped them into a compelling narrative. This book will transform our awareness of Pompey's importance in the dramatic final year of World War I.

Hell of a Time

Author: Philip Owen Ayton
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925774236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
One of the last undiscovered personal accounts of an Australian soldier fighting to survive WWI

Legs-Eleven

Author: Captain Walter C. Belford
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1781496315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 678

Book Description
For Australia the First World War remains the most costly conflict in terms of deaths and casualties. From a population of fewer than five million, 416,809 men enlisted, of which over 60,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner. In general terms with Australian unit histories the quality of authorship is very good, most of them share the common strength of making plentiful mention of the individual officers and men who served, fought, died, was wounded, or taken prisoner, or who came safely home at the end of it all. They are a prime source for genealogists and military historians.

Will Dyson

Author: Ross McMullin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description
Will Dyson (1880-1938) was a brilliant and versatile artist, and much more besides. His prodigious talents struggled to find a niche in Australia, but he burst into prominence with cartoons of extraordinary vigour and resource on the London Daily Herald. These whole-page cartoons with wordy, witty captions were revered by workers and intellectuals alike. Dyson was also a talented writer, a scintillating humourist and an arresting speaker. A stunning overnight success, he was described as the most famous Australian in the world. In 1916 Dyson became Australia's first official war artist. His drawings of profound empathy and sympathy remain a unique record of the Western Front experience. Once again he complemented his art with exquisite writing. Returning to Australia in 1925, he took up etching to international acclaim, confirming that whatever he did he did well. Absorbing, illuminating, and lavishly illustrated, this is a fascinating story of the life and times of a remarkable and under-recognised Australian.