The Great War

Contents

In the gloaming

Part One: 1916

1 Verdun’s bitter fruits

2 An unprepared little show

3 A night of horror and doubt

4 The morning after

5 Innocents abroad

6 The road to Pozières

7 Blacker than Gallipoli

9 Musty, dusty, god forsaken

10 Treading on worms

11 Jacka picks up the club

13 Kill more Germans

14 Hindenburg and Ludendorff

15 A well-fertilised farm

16 The black spider

17 Forty days and forty nights

19 The terrible winter

Part Two: 1917

20 ‘Don’t believe a single word of it’

21 The plague bacillus

22 Bloody fiasco

24 Gellibrand’s martyrs

25 Sorrow and honour

26 Roses with carmine petals

27 The road to Passchendaele

28 And the rains came

29 The Menin Road

30 Two brothers

31 They rob while they fight

32 The way of the Cross

34 The Australian Corps

Part Three: 1918

35 Ludendorff’s gamble

36 Bruchmüller’s orchestra

37 The generalissimo

38 Stragglers and heroes

39 Backs to the wall

40 ‘Into the bastards, boys’

41 The press gang

42 Ninety-three minutes

43 A very ‘British’ victory

44 The bend in the river

45 A very Australian mutiny

46 An American tragedy

47 Goodbye to all that

48 Götterdämmerung

49 Same war, different name

50 Known Unto God

Australian divisions in France and Belgium 1916–1918

Select bibliography

Acknowledgements