'Over There' with the Australians [Illustrated]

Nonfiction, History, Australia & Oceania, Military, World War I, Biography & Memoir, Historical

• Author: R. Hugh Knyvett
• ISBN: 1230000095763
• Publisher: VolumesOfValue
• Publication: January 2, 2013
• Language: English

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents

CONTENTS
An Introduction Mainly About Scouts
PART I
"THE CALL TO ARMS"
CHAPTER
I. The Call Reaches Some Far-Out Australians
II. An All-British Ship
III. Human Snowballs
IV. Training-Camp Life
V. Concentrated for Embarkation
VI. Many Weeks at Sea
PART II
EGYPT
VII. The Land of Sand and Sweat
VIII. Heliopolis
IX. The Desert
X. Picketing in Cairo
XI. "Nipper"
PART III
GALLIPOLI
XII. The Adventure of Youth
XIII. The Landing That Could Not Succeed — But Did
XIV. Holding On and Nibbling
XV. The Evacuation
XVI. "Ships That Pass … "
PART IV
THE WESTERN FRONT
XVII. Ferry Post and the Suez Canal Defenses
XVIII. First Days in France
XIX. The Battle of Fleurbaix
XX. Days and Nights of Strafe
XXI. The Village of Sleep
XXII. The Somme
XXIII. The Army's Pair of Eyes
XXIV. Nights in No Man's Land
XXV. Spy-Hunting
XXVI. Bapaume and "a Blighty"
PART V
HOSPITAL LIFE
XXVII. In France
XXVIII. In London
XXIX. The Hospital-Ship
XXX. In Australia
XXXI. Using an Irishman's Nerve
PART VI
MEDITATIONS IN THE TRENCHES
XXXII. The Right Infantry Weapons
XXXIII. The Forcing-House of Bestiality
XXXIV. The Psychology of Fear
XXXV. The Splendor of the Present Opportunity
XXXVI. Not a Fight for "Race" but for "Right"
XXXVII. "Keeping Faith with the Dead"
Poem, "But a Short Time to Live"