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Beersheba : travels through a forgotten Australian victory / Paul Daley.

Beersheba : travels through a forgotten Australian victory / Paul Daley.
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ISBN 9780522871807
Author Daley, Paul, 1964- (author.)
Title Beersheba : travels through a forgotten Australian victory / Paul Daley.
Edition 2nd edition ; Centenary edition.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2017.
©2017
Description xii, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Note Includes index.
Summary 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.
Subjects Australia. -- Army. -- Light Horse Regiment, 4th
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Middle East
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Palestine
World War, 1914-1918 -- Cavalry operations, Australian
Beersheba (Israel) -- History, Military
Call number 2017.223
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A00880571 2017.223
General Collection   . Available to Museum Staff .  
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