Anzac and Empire - George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence

Informationen zum Autor John Connor is Senior Lecturer in History, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra Klappentext The story behind the man central to how Australia planned for, and fought in, WWI. Zusammenfassung Anzac and Empire is the first full-length biography of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians! and the man central to how Australia planned for! and fought in! World War I. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations and tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. 'We, too, have hopes and ambitions', 1870?09; 2. Building the Framework, 1910?13; 3. War, 1914; 4. 'One of the great battle stories of the British Empire', 1915; 5. Conscription and the Labor Split, 1916; 6. The disastrous department, 1917; 7. 'Pearce is doomed!', 1918; 8. London and Washington, 1919?22; 9. Rearmament, 1922?52; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John Connor, John (University College Connor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2011
• EAN: 9781107009509
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00950-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Australian Army History; Australian Army History; Australian Army History Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Australia, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Warfare & defence, Australasian & Pacific history, Warfare and defence, Modern warfare, Australasian and Pacific history, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909