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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. In Broken Hill on New Year's Day 1915, two men dressed as Turks attacked the train taking locals to the annual picnic day organised by the local Independent Order of Oddfellows. The ensuing conflict ended with 4 dead. This book is a fictional account of an actual historic event that was the only enemy attack on Australian soil in WW1. It focuses on three of the people who died, including the two attackers - Afghan cameleers, who have heeded the Turkish Sultan's call to jihad against the British Empire. Given that there is sparse information about the event, and conflicting and inflated eyewitness accounts, the author has produced a good re-imagining of the day and the events leading up to it. Note: the author talked about the book and the events described therein at Adelaide Writers Week 2015. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
On 1 January 1915, ramifications from the First World War, raging half a world away, were felt in Broken Hill, Australia, when in a guerrilla-style military operation, four citizens were killed and seven wounded. It was the annual picnic day in Broken Hill and a thousand citizens were dressed for fun when the only enemy attack to occur on Australian soil during World War I, took them by surprise. Nicholas Shakespeare has turned this little known piece of Australian history into a story for our time. No library descriptions found. |
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