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9781925520309
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Chadwick, Justin
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Title
Sword and baton : senior Australian Army officers from Federation to 2001. Volume one, 1900 to 1939 / Justin Chadwick.
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Newport, N.S.W. : Big Sky Publishing Pty Ltd, 2017.
©2017
Description
667 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Series
Australian Army history collection
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
Sword and Baton is a collection of 86 biographies representing every Australian Army officer to reach the rank of major general from Federation to the outbreak of World War II. This is the first of two volumes, and its scope is broad, including chaplains general, surgeons-general and British Army officers who served with the AIF or the permanent forces. Author Justin Chadwick portrayal of these officer’s careers provides a lens through which he examines trends such as the development of military skills which ensured that, by the commencement of hostilities in 1914, Australia boasted a pool of well-trained, albeit inexperienced officers. The effects of command under pressure of war and the enormous physical impact of combat are likewise portrayed in these comprehensive biographies. By the end of hostilities Australian officers had garnered immense experience and were among the best in the Allied forces. Ironically, this hard-won skill base was to be all but lost in the interwar period. Sword and Baton offers its readers more than a series of biographies. Rather, it describes a crucial period in Australian military history through the lives of the extraordinary men at its head.
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Australia. -- Australian Army -- Officers -- Biography
Australia. -- Australian Army -- History
Australia -- History, Military
Series
Australian Army history collection
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2017.063
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