Supporting Tunnelling Operations in the Great War

Supporting Tunnelling Operations in the Great WarDescription by Damien Finlayson Paperback Few soldiers on the Western Front had heard of the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, even after it had been renamed the Alphabet Company by an AIF wag. Yet many knew the work of this tiny unit which numbered fewer than 300 at full strength. Despite its small size, the Alphabet Companys influence was enormous and spanned the entire British sector of the Western Front, from the

Graham Wilson's Bully Beef and Balderdash shines an unforgiving light on these and other well-known myths of the AIF in World War I

While Russian nursing shared many features of women's medical service in other nations

” a symbol of sacrifice that will stand for generations to come

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Mothers dreaded the arrival of the telegraph boy

Gray and almost a dozen of his half-starved fellow prisoners must then make a heroic 150-mile dash through enemy-occupied territory toward free Holland

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and Elinor Brooke

As absorbing in its drama as it is unsettling in its analysis

by Louis Arbon Strange

Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg

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