Stealth Raiders. A Few Daring Men In 1918

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage/Penquin
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 303 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In 1918 a few daring low-ranking Australian infantrymen, alone among all the armies on the Western Front, initiated stealth raids without orders. These stealth raiders killed Germans, captured prisoners and advanced the line, sometimes by thousands of yards. They were held in high regard by other men of the lower ranks and were feared by the Germans facing them. Who were these stealth raiders and why did they do it What made Australian soldiers take on this independent and personal type of warfare Using their firsthand accounts, as well as official archives and private records, Lucas Jordan pieces their stories together. A gripping account of the crucial summer on the Western Front, Stealth Raiders: A Few Daring Men in 1918 considers the stealth raiders war experience and training, the unprecedented conditions at the front and the morale of the German Army in 1918. Lucas Jordan argues that bush skills, and the bush ethos central to Australian civil society with its emphasis on resourcefulness and initiative made stealth raids a distinctively Australian phenomenon. Review:Depressingly often we see books promoted as “the forgotten story or “the untold story. Yet Stealth Raiders tells such a story, of a few daring Australian infantry who without orders, and alone among the Allied armies, consistently raided the German front in daylight, and for six months in 1918 so demoralized their opponents that they feared to enter the line against them. - Bill Gammage

ISBN: 9780143786634