Great battles in Australian history

by (author) 
Jonathan King

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Great Battles in Australian History tells the story of the forty most remarkable conflicts involving Australians through the eyes of the great heroes who were there.

Alongside them, we can ride a horse into battle to save a wounded bugler in the Boer War; charge up the cliffs with the Anzacs at Gallipoli to help forge the legend; ride history's last great cavalry charge with the legendary Light Horse; shoot Japanese planes down as they bomb Darwin; beat off Hitler's Desert Fox, Rommel, with the 'Rats of Tobruk'; escape from a Viet Cong ambush in a tropical downpour, or slide down a rope from a helicopter into the jaws of a Taliban attack in Afghanistan.

 Many of these great warriors won the Victoria Cross; some died winning it.

As historian Jonathan King takes us to the battlefields of long ago and then on a rollercoaster-ride right up to the war in Afghanistan, he brings history alive, laying bare the significance of each battle.

Despite the heroics and the glory, the devastation that war wreaks is inescapable. 

This book serves as a tribute to all the Australian servicemen and women who have fought selflessly for their country over the last two centuries.

PROD CODE : 9781742374574-C1