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Beersheba Centenary Edition : Travels Through a Forgotten Australian Victory.

Daley, Paul.

Beersheba Centenary Edition : Travels Through a Forgotten Australian Victory. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (242 pages)

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contents -- Composition of the Imperial Mounted Troops -- Map of the Charge of Beersheba -- Map of the light horse battlefields -- Prologue -- Part I: Towards Beersheba -- 1: Hebron Road -- 2: Bushmen of the Empire -- 3: Sideshow in Sinai -- 4: Mystery Joe -- 5: Legends of Romani -- 6: Ghosts of the desert -- 7: Badlands -- 8: The Bull arrives -- 9: Beersheba -- 10: Neck or nothing -- Part II: At rest in Israel -- 11: Oasis for the dead -- 12: Fathers and sons -- 13: Serendipity -- 14: Cobbers -- 15: Hoarding the legend -- 16: Inside Jaffa Gate -- 17: Desert dogs -- 18: The hand of God -- 19: Last drinks -- 20: Waiting for rockets -- 21: Cop this, dear Jacko -- Part III: A terrible thing -- 22: The massacre -- 23: Allenby and the Anzacs -- 24: A real bad thing -- 25: Inconvenient truth -- 26: Burying the past -- 27: Blood money -- 28: A bastard of a place -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- Picture Section.

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