John Monash: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: leather bound special edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: small damage on front pastedown - likely printer's error.
Few figures in Australian history command as much admiration and complexity as General Sir John Monash — engineer, lawyer, soldier, and arguably the finest battlefield commander of the First World War. Geoffrey Serle's authoritative biography chronicles the full arc of Monash's remarkable life, from his immigrant Jewish heritage and tenacious self-made rise through Melbourne's professional classes, to his brilliant and innovative command of the Australian Corps on the Western Front, where his meticulous, combined-arms tactics at the Battle of Hamel and the Hundred Days Offensive reshaped the art of modern warfare. Serle brings the rigour of a distinguished historian to a subject of extraordinary depth, presenting Monash not merely as a military genius but as a man of towering intellect, restless ambition, and profound personal contradictions. Drawing on vast archival research, the biography illuminates the social and political currents of colonial and Federation-era Australia that both shaped and challenged Monash throughout his life. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the forces that forged modern Australia — and the singular man who, on the blood-soaked fields of France and Belgium, proved what that young nation was capable of achieving.
Author: Geoffrey Serle
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Edition: leather bound special edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: small damage on front pastedown - likely printer's error.
Few figures in Australian history command as much admiration and complexity as General Sir John Monash — engineer, lawyer, soldier, and arguably the finest battlefield commander of the First World War. Geoffrey Serle's authoritative biography chronicles the full arc of Monash's remarkable life, from his immigrant Jewish heritage and tenacious self-made rise through Melbourne's professional classes, to his brilliant and innovative command of the Australian Corps on the Western Front, where his meticulous, combined-arms tactics at the Battle of Hamel and the Hundred Days Offensive reshaped the art of modern warfare. Serle brings the rigour of a distinguished historian to a subject of extraordinary depth, presenting Monash not merely as a military genius but as a man of towering intellect, restless ambition, and profound personal contradictions. Drawing on vast archival research, the biography illuminates the social and political currents of colonial and Federation-era Australia that both shaped and challenged Monash throughout his life. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the forces that forged modern Australia — and the singular man who, on the blood-soaked fields of France and Belgium, proved what that young nation was capable of achieving.