Walking With The Anzacs

Author: Matt McLachlan

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Price : $40.00 AUD
ISBN : 9780733633263
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Imprint : Hachette Australia
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Weight (g) : 0.3
Publication date : March 2015
Dimensions : 234mm X 153mm
Produced in : Australia
RRP : 40.0
Availability date : March 2015
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Author : Matt McLachlan
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Language : en
Dewey classification : 940.4144
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Description

The essential companion, fully revised and updated, to the Australian battlefields on the Western Front, this new edition features: - Fully updated tour itineraries, including a new dedicated Villers-Bretonneux tour - Information about new memorials and museums opened since the book was first published, including the new cemetery and visitors centre at Fromelles - Fully updated travel tips, accommodation listings and web resources - New personal accounts from soldiers that allow you to view the war through the eyes of the Anzacs Covering the fourteen most important Anzac battlefields, including Passchendaele, Pozieres and Bullecourt, each with its own illustrated walking tour, this is the definitive guide for anyone who wants to walk in the footsteps of the first Anzacs, see where they fought, and marvel at their spirit and bravery. Designed around easily accessible walking routes, each tour features a description of the battle, moving quotes from some of the men who fought there, and highlights areas of interest that you can expect to see on your walk including battlefield landmarks, memorials to the men who fought there and the cemeteries where many of them still lie. More than a travel guide, this is an absorbing read for anyone who wants to go WALKING WITH THE ANZACS.

Author description

Mat McLachlan is well-known as a writer on the First World War and is the founder of Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours, Australia's leading specialist battlefield tour company. Mat also appears regularly as a historian on the ABC, The History Channel and Channel 7's Sunrise. He is also the author of GALLIPOLI - THE BATTLEFIELD GUIDE.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.