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Australian Books

War and jealousy

25 April 2015

9:00 AM

25 April 2015

9:00 AM

Maestro John Monash: Australia’s Greatest Citizen General Tim Fischer

Monash University Publishing; Melbourne, pp.241, $29.95, ISBN: 9781922235596

Le Hamel was the site of an extraordinary triumph of allied arms early on the morning of July 4, 1918. Appropriately it was America’s Independence Day. Under the command of Australia’s formidable General, John Monash, American troops fought with their Australian comrades to wrest the position from Imperial German forces.

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