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Main Title: German Anzacs and the First World War / John F. Williams. Book Cover
Author: Williams, John F.
Imprint: Sydney : UNSW Press, 2003.
Collation: xviii, 318 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, paperback ; 24 cm.
Subject: World War, 1914-1918
Germans
Immigrants and immigration
Military history
ISBN: 0868405086
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references on pages [294]-311.

Includes index.

Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Edwardian dream-time -- 2. Kommt es zum Weltkrieg? -- 3. Fires of hate : the Bryce report -- 4. What's in a name? -- 5. 1914-15 : six-bob-a-day tourists -- 6. 1916 : the first 'fair dinkums' -- 7. Brothers-in-arms -- 8. Walter Schwarz : patriot, deserter, war-hero -- 9. 1917 -- 10. From 'Tumba' to Bullecourt -- 11. Ein Bloke aus Sydney -- 12. 1918 : on the defensive -- 13. 1918 : Monash's charge -- 14. Prisoners of the Reich -- 15. Fred Klingner's odyssey -- Epilogue.

By 1914, Australia's German immigrants were well-regarded in their communities and made up (after Irish and Scots) the fourth-largest white ethnic community in Australia. This history traces the experience of the immigrants who enlisted for service in World War I and the difficulties they faced.
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