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Pens and Bayonets : Letters from the Front by soldiers of Yorke Peninsula during the Great War.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (346 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781743056561
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pens and BayonetsDDC classification:
  • 940.48194000000001
LOC classification:
  • D640.A2 .L664 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Pens and Bayonets -- About the author -- Title page -- Imprint -- Dedication -- Contents -- Editor's note -- Foreword -- Preface -- Yorke Peninsula, the Great War and Soldiers' Voices -- Wars: Rural Australia's 'different war' -- Voices: Mail, Censorship and Rural Newspapers -- Meanings: Consolations, Narratives and Judgements -- Methods: Structure, Selection, Sources and Editing -- 1914: For King and Empire -- 1915: Voyage to the Dardanelles -- 1916: In Mud and Sand -- 1917: A War of Attrition -- 1918: Endings -- Epilogue: After the Armistice -- Appendix -- Indigenous Volunteers from Yorke Peninsula -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Measures -- Index of Names -- Wakefield Press page.
Summary: This book gives voice to the young Australia soldiers who volunteered to fight for our freedom in the Great War. Letters written during quiet periods 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.
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Pens and Bayonets -- About the author -- Title page -- Imprint -- Dedication -- Contents -- Editor's note -- Foreword -- Preface -- Yorke Peninsula, the Great War and Soldiers' Voices -- Wars: Rural Australia's 'different war' -- Voices: Mail, Censorship and Rural Newspapers -- Meanings: Consolations, Narratives and Judgements -- Methods: Structure, Selection, Sources and Editing -- 1914: For King and Empire -- 1915: Voyage to the Dardanelles -- 1916: In Mud and Sand -- 1917: A War of Attrition -- 1918: Endings -- Epilogue: After the Armistice -- Appendix -- Indigenous Volunteers from Yorke Peninsula -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Measures -- Index of Names -- Wakefield Press page.

This book gives voice to the young Australia soldiers who volunteered to fight for our freedom in the Great War. Letters written during quiet periods 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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