Sniping : The Australian Guerrilla Book 2
- Bib ID:
- 10012980
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Idriess, Ion, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the State Library of New South Wales, National Library of Australia.
- Description:
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- Cabarita, New South Wales : ETT Imprint, 2019
- 1 online resource (98 pages)
- ISBN:
- 9781925416848 (EPUB)
- Summary:
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Ion Idriess was a spotter for the famous Australian sniper, Billy Sing, and this book draws on his own experiences in the Gallipoli trenches during World War One. Sing had a reputation as an excellent marksman, lurking in the dark and silently sneaking up on the enemy. One day he was shot by a Turkish soldier. The bullet travelled down the barrel of his telescope, wounding both hands then went through his mouth, out his cheek and into his shoulder. He recovered from the injury, but was never really the same... Idriess was a trooper with the Light Horse at Gallipoli, all the way to Beersheba, and his diary was published as The Desert Column. Drawing on his military experience, this is one of six manuals written for soldiers and civilians in 1942, when invasion by the Japanese seemed imminent.
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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