Beersheba

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-522-85796-2
Verlag: Melbourne University Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

In October 1917 the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade took part in what is now known as the 'last great cavalry charge'. They charged across six kilometres of open ground before capturing, in a desperate hand-to-hand battle, the Turkish trenches that held the key to the strategic stronghold of Beersheba. Paul Daley's account of this battle takes him from Australia to Israel, from past to present, and from the battlefields to the archives, where he discovers a dark episode in Australian history that sits at odds with the Anzac myth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daley, Paul

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Daley, a journalist of more than two decades' experience, has worked as a political writer, an investigative reporter, a foreign affairs and defence correspondent, and a feature writer for major Australian newspapers. A former national affairs editor for the now defunct Bulletin magazine, he has also reported from conflict zones in Asia, the South Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. The Canberra-based writer and Fairfax politics columnist is the recipient of the Walkley Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism and the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism.