Beersheba Centenary Edition
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Beersheba Centenary Edition

Travels through a forgotten Australian victory

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Beersheba Centenary Edition

Travels through a forgotten Australian victory

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A hundred years ago in October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade participated in what is now regarded as the last great successful cavalry charge. Waving bayonets overhead in the dying light, they raced across six kilometres of exposed ground in Palestine, surprising the well-entrenched Turks. It was the decisive blow in the British capture of the strategic stronghold of Beersheba.The story of this remarkable military victory has largely slipped through the cracks of history, eclipsed in Australian sentiment by stories of dramatic defeat and loss at Gallipoli and on the Western Front.Paul Daley goes in search of the story of Beersheba. What he uncovers is a story of ordinary men capable of extraordinary acts, as he sheds new light on a dark episode starkly at odds with the Anzac mythology.

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Publisher
Melbourne University Press Digital
Year
2017
ISBN
9780522871814
Edition
2
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War I
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Foreword
  5. Contents
  6. Composition of the Imperial Mounted Troops
  7. Map of the Charge of Beersheba
  8. Prologue
  9. Part I: Towards Beersheba
  10. Part II: At rest in Israel
  11. Part III: A terrible thing
  12. Epilogue
  13. Acknowledgements
  14. Notes
  15. Index
  16. Picture Section