The AIF in battle : how the Australian Imperial Force fought, 1914 - 1918 / edited by Jean Bou. Australian Imperial Force in battle

Collection type	Library
Author	Bou, Jean, editor.;
Call Number	940.40994 A938
Document type	Monograph
Year	2016. 2016. 016.
Pagination	xvi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Publisher	Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne University Publishing,
Note	Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references and index. By the end of the First World War the combat formations of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in both France and the Middle East were considered among the British Empire's most effective troops. While sometimes a source of pride and not a little boasting, how the force came to be so was not due to any inherent national prowess or trait. Instead it was the culmination of years of training, organisational change, battlefield experimentation and hard-won experience;a process that included not just the Austr alians, but the wider British imperial armies as well. This book brings together some of Australia's foremost military historians to outline how the military neophytes that left Australia's shores in 1914 became the battle winning troops of 1918. It will trace the evolution of several of the key arms of the AIF, including the infantry, the light horse, the artillery, and the flying corps, and also consider how the various arms worked together alongside other troops of the British Empire to achieve a remar kably high level of battlefield effectiveness. Adult.
Place made	Carlton, Vic. : South Carlton, Victoria :

Abstract

1 Cavalry Combat: Mounted Warfare in Palestine / Jean Bou -- 2 The Battalion: The AIF Infantry Battalion and its Evolution / Robert Stevenson -- 3 Indirect Fire: The AIF''s Artillery and Mortars on theWestern Front / Garth Pratten -- 4 The AIF''s Commanders : Learning on the Job / David Horner -- 5 Over the Western Front: Air Power and the AIF / Michael Molkentin -- 6 Below Ground: The AIF''s Mining Operations / Damien Finlayson -- 7 ''Nightly Suicide Operations'': Trench Raids and the Development of the AIF / Aaron Pegram -- 8 From the Somme to the Salient: The AIF and its Battles, 1916-1917 / Meleah Hampton -- 9 ''Backs to the Wall'': Australians on the Western Front, January-June 1918 / Rhys Crawley.