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- http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1245
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- Australian Book Reviews Publishing John Coates, military history, World War II, World War Two, World War 2, Nile delta, Cairo, General Bernard Montgomery, Desert Air Force, RAAF, Royal Australian Air Force, Germany, Italy,
Axis, fascists, Afrika Korps, Barrel Hill, Major-General Leslie Morshead, Ultra Signals, Enigma, encoding, Duntroon, Britain, British, General Ritter von Thoma, Field Marshal, AIF, Australian
Infantry Forces, Cyrenaica, Tobruk, Tarakan, Japan, Japanese, Malaya, Singapore, Ambon, Timor, Rabaul, Gaza, Major-General Morshead, General Alexander, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Australian Standard Research Classification>420200 Literature Studies>420202 Australia and New Zealand Australian Standard Research Classification > 420200
Literature Studies > 420202 Australia and New
Zealand
- Creator:
- Coates, John
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- 310924 bytes
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- application/pdf
- Language
- en
- Publisher
- Australian Book Review
- Relation
- No 250
- Type
- Article
- Description
- At 9.40pm on 23rd October 1942, in the North
African desert, the heavens lit up with myriad flashes from more
than one thousand guns, and the roar of the British Commonwealth
Eighth Army's opening barrage rolled out towards Field Marshal
Rommel's poised Panzerarmee Afrika. Promptly, at 10 p.m., when two
search-lights arced across the sky, beams crossing, the waiting
infantry from Australia, Scotland, New Zealand, South Africa, India
and Great Britain rose from weapon pits, where they had been lying
doggo all day, and began to fight their way forward through wired
and dug defences, and ingeniously laid enemy minefields stretching
up to six thousand metres deep. The intense fighting that followed
over the next twelve days is recounted graphically in "Alamein",
co-authored by Mark Johnston, Head of History at Scotch College,
Melbourne, and Peter Stanley, of the Australian War Memorial. "That
Magnificent 9th: An Illustrated History of the 9th Australian
Division 1940–1946", also written by Mark Johnston, has the unique
distinction of telling the 9th Division's entire wartime story
through the medium of more than 200 photographs. They trace the
Division’s history through the growing pains of recruit training to
its final campaign of the war, at Brunei-Labuan in north
Borneo.
- Description
- Australia Council, La Trobe University, National
Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts
Victoria
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