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1 online resource (417 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: The Road to Pozieres; Chapter Two: Foreboding; Chapter Three: Fromelles; Chapter Four: Lurid Clouds of War; Chapter Five: Storming Pozieres; Chapter Six: Consolidation; Chapter Seven: The Pozieres Ridge; Chapter Eight: The Price of Glory; Chapter Nine: Legge's Reckoning; Chapter Ten: Promised Land; Chapter Eleven: Folly; Chapter Twelve: La Ferme du Mouquet; Chapter Thirteen: Kicking in the Back Door; Chapter Fourteen: Second Stunt; Chapter Fifteen: Battering Ram; Chapter Sixteen: Graveyard or Glory |
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Chapter Seventeen: AftermathChapter Eighteen: War-weariness; Chapter Nineteen: The Missing; Abbreviations; References; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index |
| Summary |
In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozières, perched on the highest ridge of the battlefield. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task. At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands of Australians stormed and took Pozières. Forty-five days later they were relieved, having suffered 23,000 casualties to gain a few miles of barren, lunar landscape. Despite the toll, the capture of Pozières was heralded as a stunning tactical victory. Yet for |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781921863219 |
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1921863218 |
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