Red Dust: A Classic Account of Australian Light Horsemen in Palestine During the First World War

Black, Donald

ISBN 10: 1846774837 / ISBN 13: 9781846774836

Editore: Leonaur Ltd, 2008

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.6. Codice articolo G1846774837I3N00

Riassunto:

An intimate portrait of war

There are books which report the experience of war and then there are a few that enable the reader to step into another's life to share war, both in the mind and the flesh. Red Dust is such a book. Written by a trooper of the Australian Light Horse on campaign in the Middle East during the Great War against the Ottoman Turkish empire it tells of 'mateship,' hard campaigning and brutal conflict-often hand to hand and described in relentless detail. It also allows the reader to share the thoughts of this ordinary man-a man of his time and his country-as he struggles to rationalise the horror and futility of war, his feelings on the loss of comrades, the embryonic sense of otherness from the Imperial motherland and the loss of youth. The action takes place principally in the Jordon Valley in Palestine-a grinding stalemate of a phase in what was often one of fluid manoeuvre. Here the troops experienced fiercely hot days, freezing nights, scorpions and spiders and the ever present threat of the tenacious and respected enemy. Red Dust is a rare book in every sense and will be sure to reward all those interested in the First World War and fine writing.

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Titolo: Red Dust: A Classic Account of Australian ...
Casa editrice: Leonaur Ltd
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
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