At any price : the Anzacs at the Battle of Messines 1917 / Craig Deayton.

Collection type	Library
Author	Deayton, Craig, author.;
Call Number	940.4272 D285
Document type	Monograph
Year	2017. 2017. 2017]
Pagination	335 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Publisher	Big Sky Publishing, Big Sky Publishing,
Note	Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 the First World War, 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. By the end of that bri lliant summer's day, one of the strongest positions on the Western Front had fallen in the greatest British victory in three long years of war. For the Anzacs, who comprised one third of the triumphant Second Army, it was their most significant achievemen t to that point; for the men of the New Zealand Division, it would be their finest hour.
Place made	Newport, NSW : Newport, N.S.W. :

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