Phillip Bradley,  Author of Inferno

One of Australia’s most respected military historians, returns with his most ambitious work yet. Drawing on newly uncovered Australian and German archives, including soldiers’ letters never seen before, Bradley brings the Western Front to life as never before.

We all know Gallipoli. But the Western Front was where Australia’s true identity was forged. Between 1916 and 1918, 300,000 Australians fought in France and Belgium. More than 46,000 never came home. Inferno tells their story—battle by battle—through the eyes of the Diggers and their German foes. It’s a sweeping, emotional history in the tradition of Les Carlyon’s The Great War and Bill Gammage’s The Broken Years.

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