Wolfsberg : Anzacs and Americans / John Hunter Farrell
- Bib ID:
- 7764054
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Farrell, John Hunter, author
- Description:
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- Tamborine Mountain, QLD : Fullbore Magazines Pty Ltd, 2018
- ©2018
- 435 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780958086035 (paperback)
- Summary:
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A Great War Novel retelling the true story of the first days of the Australian American battlefield alliance at the Battle of Hamel on July 4, 1918. An unconventional US Army Colonel hatches an unapproved plan to gain combat experience for untried US Army infantry before they are thrown into the hellfire of the Somme by their distant commanders. Using all his whiles, he manages to get a tiny team of American infantry attached to an elite Australian infantry battalion where they gain invaluable battle inoculation in the worst days of World War 1. A young rookie US Army Captain and his team of four Illinois Doughboys are sent forward to face the fury of No Man's Land, surviving vicious trench raids and catastrophic chemical warfare, building deep bonds with the inspirational Aussie Anzacs they are fighting beside. While the Doughboys are experiencing their baptism of fire is the slaughterhouse of the Western Front trenches, the Colonel, aided by two American Generals terrified that the US Army will be slaughtered without better preparations, hatch a secret plan to partner the veteran Australian Corps and learn the Aussie's cutting edge battle tactics before the Americans are forced to go 'Over the Top' alone. Success follows success and the foundations of the now century old ANZUS Alliance are laid along the banks of the Somme River, until the American Top Brass is tipped off that Doughboys are going into battle without American Expeditionary Force approval on the very eve of the famous Battle of Hamel on Independence Day 1918. Orders from on high demand that the Doughboys desert their Anzac brothers in the hours before battle. A mutiny and a triumph follows, with young Americans risking everything to honor their pledge and stay and fight to the end beside the Anzacs. When the dust settles, the Doughboys have won WW1's first Medal of Honor and played a key role in the shattering victory at Le Hamel which turned the tide against the Kaiser's storm troopers and paved the way to the victory of democracy over tyranny.
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- NLApp77573
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2018
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