Pozieres

Pozieres
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Publisher : Scribe Publications
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781922247483
ISBN-13 : 1922247480
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Pozieres by : Scott Bennett

Download or read book Pozieres written by Scott Bennett and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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 Pozières. Forty-five days later they were relieved, having suffered 23,000 casualties to gain a few miles of barren landscape. Despite the toll, the operation was heralded as a stunning victory. Yet for the exhausted survivors, the war-weary public, and the families of the dead and maimed, victory came at a terrible cost. Drawing on the letters and diaries of the men who fought at Pozières, this superb book reveals a battlefield drenched in chaos and fear. Bennett sheds light on the story behind the official history, re-creating the experiences of those men who fought in one of the largest and most devastating battles of the Great War and returned home, all too often, as shattered men.


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