The Definitive account (Les Carlyon) of the first major battle fought by Australian troops on the Western Front, 19 – 20 July 1916. Directed against the strong German position at the Sugar Loaf salient, the 5th Australian Division suffered 5,533 casualties.The strategic background to the battle ( an attempt to draw German troops away from the Somme offensive ), a detailed account of the battle and the aftermath and modern search for the ‘missing of Fromelles’.Complete Honour Roll of Australian and British troops and a limited account of known German fallen. Maps and b/w photographs.pp. xxii, 505 illusts #0720R (Small edge discolouration to prelims) ISBN 13: 9780522855296
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