The Charge
The Australian Light Horse Victory at Beersheba
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
17 July 2017
Summary
The full story of the Australian victory at Beersheba, secured by the Australian Light Horse – one of the last successful cavalry charges in history – to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle.
The Turkish Gaza-Beersheba line extended for 40 kilometres between the Turkish bastion of Gaza and the heavily fortified town of Beersheba, and stopped any Allied advance into Palestine proper. It needed to be breached, and Beersheba – on the eastern flank of this line – became the sce…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143782551 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014378255X |
| Author: | David W. Cameron |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Viking Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 473g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 154mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
David W. Cameron
David W. Cameron received his PhD in biological anthropology in 1995 at the Australian National University and is a former Australian Research Council QEII Fellow at the Department of Anatomy & Histology, University of Sydney. He has conducted fieldwork in Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He is the author of several books on Australian military history and primate evolutionary biology and has published over 60 papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals. He lives in Canberra.
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