Fromelles : Australia's bloodiest day at war /
Wilkinson, Carole, 1950-
Fromelles : Australia's bloodiest day at war / Carole Wilkinson. - Fitzroy, Vic. : Black Dog Books, 2012, ©2011. - 182 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 21 cm. - Drum (Fitzroy, Vic.) . - Drum (Fitzroy, Vic.) .
Includes bibliographical references and index. For secondary school age. CBA Shortlist.
Map of the Western Front -- World War I timeline -- Basic Australian army structure -- New recruits -- Green fields and barbed wire -- Lethal weapons -- Attack -- Map of the Fromelles battlefield -- Dead and the dying -- Defeat -- What went wrong? -- Tommies, Frogs and Fritz -- Pheasant Wood -- Postscript -- Map of the Battle of Fromelles site today.
The Battle of Fromelles lasted less than 24 hours . in which more than 5000 Australian soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. What was the purpose of this bloody and ultimately pointless loss of life? And why, almost a century later, did the world.s attention shift to the village of Fromelles?
9781742031767 1742031765
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Australian--Children's nonfiction.
Australia--History, Military--20th century--Children's nonfiction.
Fromelles : Australia's bloodiest day at war / Carole Wilkinson. - Fitzroy, Vic. : Black Dog Books, 2012, ©2011. - 182 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 21 cm. - Drum (Fitzroy, Vic.) . - Drum (Fitzroy, Vic.) .
Includes bibliographical references and index. For secondary school age. CBA Shortlist.
Map of the Western Front -- World War I timeline -- Basic Australian army structure -- New recruits -- Green fields and barbed wire -- Lethal weapons -- Attack -- Map of the Fromelles battlefield -- Dead and the dying -- Defeat -- What went wrong? -- Tommies, Frogs and Fritz -- Pheasant Wood -- Postscript -- Map of the Battle of Fromelles site today.
The Battle of Fromelles lasted less than 24 hours . in which more than 5000 Australian soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. What was the purpose of this bloody and ultimately pointless loss of life? And why, almost a century later, did the world.s attention shift to the village of Fromelles?
9781742031767 1742031765
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Australian--Children's nonfiction.
Australia--History, Military--20th century--Children's nonfiction.