Название: Australasia triumphant! With the Australians and New Zealanders in the great war on land and Sea
Автор: Adcock, Arthur St. John
Издательство: London. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent
Страниц: 149
Формат: PDF
Размер: 23 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Год: 1916
Язык: английский
It is too soon to attempt the telling at large and in detail of all that has been done by Australia and New Zealand in the Great War. There is much that has, for military reasons, not yet been revealed; and what has been told has come to us from various sources in more or less fragmentary fashion, so that one must read several accounts of the same event in order to get anything of an adequate idea of it. All I have done here is to collate such documents as are available and gather together a connected narrative, not only of the actual campaigning, but of the spiritual and mental experiences the Australasians have passed through since August 1-14, the way they have faced this crisis in their history, and the effect the war has had on their national life. I have drawn on official documents, on the dispatches of Sir Ian Hamilton, the reports of the various correspondents of our English and the chief Australian and New Zealand newspapers, on the speeches of public men and letters of private citizens, and on a few conversations I have had with some of the wounded Anzacs whom I have met in these latter days about London....
