First World War

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Book Cover: The Middle Parts of Fortune: Text Classics
By Frederic Manning & Simon (Intro Caterson

The drumming of the guns continued, with bursts of great intensity. It was as though a gale streamed overhead, piling up great waves of sound, and hurrying them onwards to crash in surf on the enemy entrenchments. The windless air about them, by its very stillness, made that unearthly music more terrible to hear.

Hailed by Eliot, Pound, Lawrence and Hemingway, and based on the author's own experiences...

The drumming of the guns continued, with bursts of great intensity. It was as though a gale streamed overhead, piling up great waves of sound, and hurrying them onwards to crash in surf on the enemy entrenchments...

Published: 26/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921922381
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Pompey Elliot
By Ross McMullin

'Australian who don't read this book are short-changing themselves.' PETER RYAN, THE AUSTRALIAN

'A striking aspect of Ross McMullin's scrupulous biography is how little Elliott has been exaggerated by posterity . . . Pompey Elliott is a large book, and rightly.' GIDEON HAIGH, THE AGE

'May be the best Australian military biography yet to appear.' STEPHEN LOOSLEY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH



'Australian who don't read this book are short-changing themselves.' PETER RYAN, THE AUSTRALIAN

'A striking aspect of Ross McMullin's scrupulous biography is how little Elliott has been exaggerated by...

Published: 07/04/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921372018
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Men of Mont St Quentin
By Peter Stanley

At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five more were wounded, one of whom died six weeks later. The survivors returned from war, more-or-less intact, to live through the next sixty-odd years...

At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont...

Published: 31/08/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921215339
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Middle Parts Of Fortune
By Frederic Manning
First published anonymously in 1929 because its language was considered far too frank for public circulation, The Middle Parts of Fortune was hailed by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Lawrence of Arabia and Ernest Hemingway as an extraordinary novel. Its author was in fact Frederic Manning, an Australian writer who fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and who told his story of men at war from the...
First published anonymously in 1929 because its language was considered far too frank for public circulation, The Middle Parts of Fortune was hailed by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Lawrence of Arabia...
Published: 07/05/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781876485825
RRP: $23.95
Book Cover:  World War I
By H.P. Willmot

A dynamic portrait of the world's greatest human conflict, now in paperback

World War I is a dramatic account of the Great War combining emotive photography with personal accounts to evoke both the futility and spirit of the conflict.



A dynamic portrait of the world's greatest human conflict, now in paperback

World War I is a dramatic account of the Great War combining emotive photography with personal accounts to evoke both the futility...

Published: 26/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781409376521
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: An Anzac's Story

Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier.

Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typical Anzac, fiercely patriotic, he enlisted in the A.I.F. in 1915, several months under-age. He spent...

Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier...

Published: 01/03/2005
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670910748
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore

IT WAS AN ADVENTURE to die for.  A daring attempt to force the Dardanelles and capture the Turkish capital Constantinople.  For the Allies it was the Trojan War and crusade combined. Once again Europe would prevail over an ancient enemy. 

IT WAS AN ADVENTURE to die for.  A daring attempt to force the Dardanelles and capture the Turkish capital Constantinople.  For the Allies it was the Trojan War and crusade combined. Once again...

Published: 30/03/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143011330
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Anzacs: From Gallipoli to the Western Front

1918 on the Western Front.  At no other time has Australia so influenced the course of world history.  In the worst crisis of World War I the Germans had a cut a wide swathe through the British line.  The Australians knew their hour had come.  'Fini retreat', they boldly announced as they marched to a halt the Germans at Amiens.  Then it was their turn to advance, driving the...

1918 on the Western Front.  At no other time has Australia so influenced the course of world history.  In the worst crisis of World War I the Germans had a cut a wide swathe through the British...

Published: 29/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143008460
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  World War One: A Short History
By Norman Stone

The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But now Norman Stone, one of Britain's...

The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were...

Published: 12/05/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141031569
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Anzacs
Winner of the Age Book of the Year award when first published in 1978, The Anzacs remains unrivalled as the classic account of Australia's involvement in the First World War.
Winner of the Age Book of the Year award when first published in 1978, The Anzacs remains unrivalled as the classic account of Australia's involvement in the First World War.
Published: 07/10/1991
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140165395
RRP: $26.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

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