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There were five main arenas where Australian Great War Poetry was written in the period of 1914 to 1939: the Home Front, Gallipoli, The Middle East, The Western Front and England. These arenas were to form important segregations of poetic attitude and interest specific to the war mood at the time.
Patricia Jean Adam-Smith, AO, OBE (31 May 1924 – 20 September 2001) was an Australian author, historian and servicewoman. She was a prolific writer on a range of subjects covering history, folklore and the preservation of national traditions, [1] and wrote a two-part autobiography.
Gammage is best known for his book The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War, [2] which is based on his PhD thesis written while at the Australian National University. It was first published in 1974, and re-printed in 1975, 1980, 1981 (the year in which Peter Weir's film, Gallipoli came out), 1985 and 1990.
Sir Henry Georges Fauvel, a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was ‘viewed entirely from the private soldier’s point of view’. [6] Idriess' original diaries are kept in the research collection of the Australian War Memorial. [2]
List of Australian writers by type. List of Australian diarists of World War I; List of Australian diarists of World War I (A-G) List of Australian diarists of World War I (H-N) List of Australian diarists of World War I (O-Z) List of Indigenous Australian writers; List of Australian novelists; List of Australian poets; List of Australian women ...
SPA124 Lafayette Escadrille: American Volunteer Airmen in World War 1 (Aviation Elite Units, 17) (2004). Osprey Publishing (UK) (ISBN 1841767522). 128 pgs. Guttman, Jon. Spad VII Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 39) (2001). Osprey Aviation (ISBN 1841762229). 96 pgs. Hepplewhite, Peter. World War I: In The Air (2003).
The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australian involvement in the First World War. The series was edited by C. E. W. Bean , who also wrote six of the volumes and was published between 1920 and 1942.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is a book by Australian historian Christopher Clark, first published in 2012. The book covers the causes of the First World War , starting in 1903 with the murder of Alexander I of Serbia and ending with the outbreak of World War One .