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Stealth Raiders: A Few Daring Men in 1918

By Lucas Jordan

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Stealth Raiders: A Few Daring Men in 1918

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In 1918 a few daring low-ranking Australian infantrymen, alone among all the armies on the Western Front, initiated stealth raids without orders. These stealth raiders killed Germans, captured prisoners and advanced the line, sometimes by thousands of yards. They were held in high regard by other men of the lower ranks and were feared by the Germans facing them. Who were these stealth raiders and why did they do it? What made Australian soldiers take on this independent and personal type of warfare? Using their firsthand accounts, as well as official archives and private records, Lucas Jordan pieces their stories together. A gripping account of the crucial summer on the Western Front, Stealth Raiders: A Few Daring Men in 1918 considers the stealth raiders war experience and training, the unprecedented conditions at the front and the morale of the German Army in 1918. Lucas Jordan argues that bush skills, and the bush ethos central to Australian civil society with its emphasis on resourcefulness and initiative made stealth raids a distinctively Australian phenomenon. Depressingly often we see books promoted as the forgotten story or the untold story . Yet Stealth Raiders tells such a story, of a few daring Australian infantry who . . . so demoralised their opponents that they feared to enter the line against them Bill Gammage
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2017-08-28
Publication Date:
2017-08-28
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0143786636
Weight:
464 g
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