Tagliato fuori dal resto del mondo, l'impero coloniale tedesco nel Pacifico viene conquistato quasi senza colpo ferire dalle forze combinate di Australia, Giappone e Nuova Zelanda. Conosciamo un po' meglio cosa fossero questi tre paesi nel 1914 e introduciamo l'ammiraglio Von Spee, che sarà protagonista di una delle vicende più note della storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, l'epopea dello Squadrone dell'Asia Orientale.

Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcast

Se vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: [email protected]

Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

Montaggio e audio: Andrea Basso

Fonti dell'episodio:

Charles Bean, Anzac to Amiens, Australian War Memorial, 1946
 
Joan Beaumont, Australia, 1914-1918 Online, 2015
 
Geoffrey Bennett, The Pepper Trader: True Tales of the German East Asia Squadron and the Man Who Cast Them in Stone. PT Equinox Publishing, 2006
 
Captain Brian Colden Antill Pockley, Australian War Memorial
 
Isao Chiba, Making sense of the war (Japan), 1914-1918 Online, 2022
 
Peter J. Coleman, Progressivism and the World of Reform: New Zealand and the Origins of the American Welfare State, 1987
 
Chris Coulthard-Clark, Where Australians Fought: The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles, Allen & Unwin. 1998
 
Evan Evans, William George Vincent (Billy) Williams, Virtual War Memorial Australia

Aaron Patrick Fox, Warfare 1914-1918 (New Zealand), 1914-1918 Online, 2016
 
Jeffrey Grey, A Military History of Australia, Cambridge University Press, 2008
 
Herman Hiery, The Neglected War: The German South Pacific and the Influence of World War I, University of Hawaii Press, 1995
 
Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz, Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe: Biographien – ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart, Mundus Verlag, 1993
 
Richard Hough, Falklands 1914: The Pursuit of Admiral Von Spee, Periscope Publishing, 1980
 
Kate Hunter, New Zealand, 1914-1918 Online, 2015
 
John Jennings, Pacific Islands, 1914-1918 Online, 2015
 
A.W. Jose, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. Volume IX: The Royal Australian Navy, University of Queensland Press, 1987
 
Seaforth MacKenzie, The Australians at Rabaul: The Capture and Administration of the German Possessions in the South Pacific. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Australian War Memorial, 1941
 
Ian McGibbon, The Path to Gallipoli: Defending New Zealand 1840–1915, GP Books, 1991
 
Ian McGibbon, The Shaping of New Zealand's War Effort, August–October 1914, New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, the Allies & the First World War, Exisle Publishing, 2007
 
Jürgen Melzer, Warfare 1914-1918 (Japan), 1914-1918 Online, 2017
 
Micronesia, Enciclopedia Treccani
 
George Odgers, 100 Years of Australians at War, Lansdowne, 1994
 
Edwin O. Reischauer, Storia del Giappone, Bompiani, 1994
 
Samoa, Enciclopedia Treccani
 
Timothy D. Saxon, Anglo-Japanese Naval Cooperation, 1914-1918, Liberty University, 2000
 
Stephen Smith, The Seizure and Occupation of Samoa, The War Effort of New Zealand. Official History of New Zealand's Effort in the Great War. Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1923
 
Stephen Smith, The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary Force 1914–1915, Ferguson & Osborn, 1924
The German Pacific Colonies, German Colonial Uniforms

In copertina: dall'archivio dell'Australian War Memorial, un riservista tedesca si occupa dell'addestramento base di alcuni ausiliari melanesiani in Nuova Guinea, poco prima dello sbarco delle forze australiane.