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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796455903321

Autore

Beaumont Joan

Titolo

Broken nation : Australians in the Great War / / Joan Beaumont

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Crows Nest, NSW : , : Allen & Unwin, , 2014

ISBN

1-74176-155-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (928 p.)

Disciplina

940.41294

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918 - Australia

World War, 1914-1918 - Australia - Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-612) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; LIST OF MAPS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; PROLOGUE: JOE RUSSELL'S WAR; 1. 1914: GOING TO WAR; 2. 1915: GALLIPOLI AND MOBILISATION AT HOME; 3. 1916: WAR OF A DIFFERENT KIND; 4. 1917: THE WORST YEAR; 5. 1918: CRISIS AND VICTORY; 6. 1919: PEACE AND MEMORY; APPENDIX 1: ORGANISATION OF THE 1ST AIF, 1918; APPENDIX 2: AIF ENLISTMENTS BY MONTH, 1915-18; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

The Australian experience of war in all its complexity - from the homefront as well as the battlefront - as the men and women who experienced it chose to understand and remember it. The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac legend. But it was also a war fought by the families at home. Their resilience in the face of hardship, their stoic acceptance of enormous casualty lists and their belief that their cause was just, made the war effort possible. This book brings together all the dimensions of World War I. Combining deep scholarship with powerful storytelling, this book brings the war years to life: from the well-known battles at Gallipoli, Pozieres, Fromelles and Villers-Bretonneux, to the lesser known battles in Europe and the Middle East; from the ferocious



debates over conscription to the disillusioning Paris peace conference and the devastating Spanish flu the soldiers brought home. We witness the fear and courage of tens of thousands of soldiers, grapple with the strategic nightmares confronting the commanders, and come to understand the impact on Australians, at home and at the front, of death on an unprecedented scale. A century after the Great War, this book brings lucid insight into the dramatic events, mass grief and political turmoil that makes the memory of this terrible war central to Australia's history.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910887098003321

Titolo

Ereditare il presente : conoscenza, tutela e valorizzazione dell'architettura italiana dal 1945 ad oggi / a cura di Stefania De Notarpietro ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Arezzo, : Magonza, 2024

ISBN

978-88-312-8097-6

Descrizione fisica

577 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

720.9450904

Locazione

DARPU

FARBC

Collocazione

C 1598 CAN

ARCH B 4421

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Voluto dalla Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura, con la collaborazione della Fondazione Scuola Beni Attività Culturali