Heroes of Hamel / Stephen Dando-Collins
- Bib ID:
- 7543095
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dando-Collins, Stephen, 1950-
- Online Access:
- National edeposit
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- National edeposit: Available online.
- Description:
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- North Sydney, NSW : Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd, 2018
- ©2018
- 323 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits, plates ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780143787600 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The battle of Hamel was remarkable for its speed, the tactics employed, numerous acts of extreme bravery, and the fact that for the first time in history American troops fought under Australian command. The Battle of Hamel, explores the preparations and ramifications for this blitzkreig and the parts played by six men in particular: General John Monash, a former Melbourne engineer who had risen through militia ranks to become the first Australian corps commander of WWI, and who put his career on the line by conceiving and commanding the bold Hamel assault, implementing it despite the reservations of his British superior and the interference of American commander General Pershing and Monash's own Australian prime minister, Billy Hughes. Australians Private Henry Dalziel and Lance Corporal Jack Axford, who both won the Victoria Cross (VC) for their gallantry during the battle, and Sergeant Ned Searle (who is related to Stephen Dando-Collins), who set out to win a Victoria Cross during the battle. Colonel Joseph B Sanborn, at 64 supposedly much too old for front line service, yet who, as commander of the American 131st Regiment, defied the orders of US commander General Pershing to lead his men into battle alongside the Australians. On General Monash's recommendation, Sanborn was awarded the British Distinguished Service Cross (DSC). American Corporal Thomas Pope, who won America's highest gallantry award, the Medal of Honor (MOH), for his part in the Battle of Hamel, becoming the first member of the US Army to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War One. Pope would live to 94, becoming the last WWI Medal of Honor winner to pass away.
- Notes:
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- A Vintage Australia book.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also available online.
- Subject:
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- Monash, John, Sir, 1865-1931
- Military history
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian
- Le Hamel, Battle of, Le Hamel, Amiens, France, 1918
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, American
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France
- Soldiers -- Australia -- Biography
- Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
- History - Military - World War I
- Biography: historical, political & military
- Australia -- Military relations -- United States
- United States -- Military relations -- Australia
- Le Hamel (Amiens, France) -- History, Military
- Australian history
- Australian
- Also Titled:
- Heroes of Hamel : the Australians and Americans whose WWI victory changed modern warfare
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- Publication date:
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