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At Any Price - the Anzacs in the Battle of Messines 1917

At Any Price - the Anzacs in the Battle of Messines 1917
 
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The enemy must not get the Messines Ridge at any price … So read the orders to German troops defending the vital high ground south of Ypres. On 7 June 1917, the British Second Army launched its attack with an opening like no other. In the largest secret operation of WWI, British and Commonwealth mining companies placed over a million pounds of explosive beneath the German front-line positions in 19 giant mines which erupted like a volcano. This was just the beginning.

The fighting at Messines would descend into unimaginable savagery, a lethal and sometimes hand-to-hand affair of bayonets, clubs, bombs and incessant machine-gun fire, described by one Australian as ‘72 hours of Hell’. After their string of bloody defeats over 1915 and 1916, Messines would prove the ultimate test for the Australians.

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Published: 2017
Format: hardcover with dustjacket
Pages: 335, indexed
47%
SKU SKU19029
Quantity in stock 1 item(s) available
Weight 0.85 kg
Author Craig Deayton
ISBN 9781925520514
 
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