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Monash & Chauvel, how Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history, Roland Perry

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Monash & Chauvel, how Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history, Roland Perry

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Monash & Chauvel

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bibliography

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Roland Perry

Sub title

how Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history

Summary

The two most outstanding battle commanders on the Allied side at the Western and Middle Eastern Fronts were Generals John Monash and Harry Chauvel. They met and formed an unlikely bond in the cauldron of Gallipoli and went on with their armies to be dominant in the two biggest Fronts of the 1914-1918 War. John Monash, on the Western Front in Europe at the peak of the deciding year 1918, commanded the Australian Imperial Army (AIF). It had 208,000 soldiers (more than six times Australia's current Defence Force), and was the biggest single army Corps of twenty on the Allied side. Monash saw himself as Australian first and second. He viewed the war on the battle-fields as that between two systems: military dictatorship and emerging democracy. His German lineage meant fewer ties to the British Empire and a real sense of Australia's needs as an independent fledgling nation. Monash's background also made him more aware than any other Allied General of what was at stake

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adult

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