At the Front Line
Subtitle: Experiences of Australian Soldiers in World War II
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780521523233
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history: First World War; European history: Second World War; Military life & institutions; Second World War, 1939-1945; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Australia; Europe; Australia & New Zealand - General; Military; Military - World War II; Biography & Autobiography / Military; History / Australia & Oceania; History-Australia & New Zealand - General; History-Military - World War II; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Au; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Australian
First sentence: Soon after arriving in a forward area in Papua, a diarist in a regiment waiting for its first action wrote of an encounter with a group of veterans who were being evacuated: Those fellows certainly looked "all in".