A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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... August ' Birdie ' cabled the Australian Defence Department for reinforcements . On 24 August the Secretary of State for the Colonies , on advice from the Army Council , cabled for reinforcements owing to heavy casualties suffered by the ...
... August ' Birdie ' cabled the Australian Defence Department for reinforcements . On 24 August the Secretary of State for the Colonies , on advice from the Army Council , cabled for reinforcements owing to heavy casualties suffered by the ...
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... August , at Villers Bretonneux where the Australians had made their heroic stand the preceding April , he exhorted the troops under his command to ' inflict blows upon the enemy which will make him stagger , and will bring the end appre ...
... August , at Villers Bretonneux where the Australians had made their heroic stand the preceding April , he exhorted the troops under his command to ' inflict blows upon the enemy which will make him stagger , and will bring the end appre ...
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... August in the House of Representatives Ted Theodore led the attack on the Government . John Brown , he said , the millionaire political financier of the Government , had some mysterious influence over Bruce , an influence which enabled ...
... August in the House of Representatives Ted Theodore led the attack on the Government . John Brown , he said , the millionaire political financier of the Government , had some mysterious influence over Bruce , an influence which enabled ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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