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Historian Michael Enright provides a close-up account of Australian
servicemen on the Western Front during WWI. Using many previously
unpublished, first-hand materials, the author provides a fresh look
at the Great War through the eyes of ordinary servicemen. The scene
is set with a brief account of events at Gallipoli, the place where
the Australians gained their reputation as fierce fighters, and
then the author discusses the reformation of the ANZAC divisions in
Egypt and their subsequent movement to France. This leads to
previously unpublished personal accounts that give new
interpretations of the key battles on the Western Front at
Fromelles, Somme, Bullecourt, Messines, Passchendaele, and
Villers-Bretonneux, amongst others. Many of these accounts support
the particular bravery of the Australian soldier. This work
provides a reassessment of the ANZAC legend and mythology based on
the personal diaries and memoirs of those who were there.
This book is about Australian aircrew in Europe during World War II
and draws on extensive field research, including over two hundred
interviews with survivors. The fact that the Australians were
spread so widely across so many squadrons has contributed to
substantial oversights, both in the official histories and in the
literature on the field. Flyers Far Away redresses this imbalance
and accords those largely forgotten Australian airmen a rightful
place in the history of the European air war. Flyers Far Away
describes how so many Australian airmen ended up in Western Europe
fighting an Allied cause, in one of the bloodiest and most
unforgiving campaigns of the Second World War. Using first-hand
accounts from the surviving airmen, it traces their path from
recruitment in Australia to operations over the Third Reich and
Axis territories. For the first time, the exploits of all
Australian aircrew, in Fighter, Bomber, Coastal and Tactical Air
Force Commands are brought together in one volume.
This text offers a new interpretation of Adomnan's 'Life of Saint
Columba', a crucial source for the study of early Irish and north
British history. Whereas previous scholars have assumed that this
vita was that of a fairly typical Irish saint, Enright shows that
Adomnan intended to portray Columba as an authentic Old
Testament-style prophet, one superior to any other leader because
he had been divinely chosen and commissioned to impose God's will
on the British Isles."
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