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1 online resource |
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EBL ebooks online
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| Contents |
Author's note; Introduction; 1 Under way, 1914; 2 Egypt, 1914-15; 3 On the way to Gallipoli, 1915; 4 Landing, 1915; 5 War, 1915; 6 Digging in, 1915; 7 Sick parade, 1915; 8 Evacuation, 1915; 9 Return to Egypt, 1916; 10 France, 1916; 11 Shells and sport, 1916; 12 Towards the front, 1916; 13 Counter-attacks and kings, 1916; 14 Blighty, 1916; 15 Infantryman, 1916-17; 16 Frontline, 1917; 17 Mixed fortunes, 1917-18; Epilogue |
| Summary |
Tom Richards is the only Australian-born Test rugby player to have played for both Australia and the British Lions. When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games, the London Times pronounced: 'If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Richards would be the first player chosen.'. With an introduction by leading Australian rugby writer Greg Growden, Richards's diaries offer wonderful insights into his extraordinary sporting life, but more importantly provide perceptive and acute observations of the brutality and the humanity he observed on the front lines of World War I |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2018) |
| Subject |
Richards, Tom, 1882-1935 -- Diaries
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Australian
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Rugby football players -- Australia -- Diaries
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Rugby football players
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Nonfiction.
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Biography & Autobiography.
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Military.
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Sports & Recreations.
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Diaries
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Growden, Greg, editor
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| ISBN |
9781743433782 |
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1743433786 |
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