Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front
By (Author) Leon Davidson
Text Publishing
The Text Publishing Company
1st March 2010
Australia
Classifications
Young Adult
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forces
940.40994
Winner of NZ Post Childrens Book Awards, Non-Fiction 2011 (New Zealand)
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 136mm, Height 208mm, Spine 17mm
255g
Description
The First World War was only meant to last six months. When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight. The men took their place in a line of trenches that spread through Belgium and France from the North Sea to the Swiss Alps. Beyond the trenches was no-man's land, an eerie wasteland where rats lived in the ribs of the dead and the wounded cried for help. Beyond that was the German Army. The Anzacs had sailed for France to fight a war the whole world was talking about. Few who came home ever spoke about it again.
Author Bio
Leon Davidson is the author of the best-selling Scarecrow Army: the Anzacs at Gallipoli and Red Haze: Australians and New Zealanders in Vietnam.
