Mark Johnston

Stretcher-Bearers

Saving Australians from Gallipoli to Kokoda

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a generously illustrated, engaging and moving account of the history of the stretcher-bearer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9781107087194
• ISBN-10: 1107087198
• Artikelnr.: 41417873

Autorenporträt

Dr Mark Johnston is Head of History, Politics and Philosophy at Scotch College, Melbourne and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. He is a leading authority on the Australian Army in World War II and has been described in the Australian War Memorial's Wartime magazine as 'the leading historian on the experience of Australian soldiers during the war'. This is his tenth book and his fifth with Cambridge University Press. His earlier works include histories of the 6th, 7th and 9th Divisions, and of the RAAF in the Pacific War.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The First World War 1914-1918: 1. Gallipoli and Palestine
2. The Western Front
Part II. The Second World War 1939-1945: 3. The Middle East
4. The jungle campaigns.