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1918 / Libby Gleeson.

1918 / Libby Gleeson.

The planes kept flying low above them. They were dropping bombs and the noise drowned out all other sounds. After an hour the signal rang out and they surged forward through the smoke. Thousands of men screaming and yelling, their line was kilometres wide. Behind them came Monash's tanks, those huge, new mobile machines. They smothered the land they ran over; flattening the crops and then any wire left standing. With Russia out of the war, the Germans have sent all the troops to the Western Front. Almost defeated, a small group of Australians fight to hold the enemy back at Villers-Brettoneux. Weary after years of fighting and deadlock, Ned and his mates know that the war will be lost if they can't turn the tide. More and more, Ned's thoughts turn to home, not knowing if he will ever see his family, or his brother, again.

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Field name Details
Shelf Location J GLEE
Author Gleeson, Libby, 1950-
Title 1918 / Libby Gleeson.
Other title Nineteen eighteen
Publication Details Lindfield, N.S.W. : Scholastic Australia, 2018.
©2018
Description 230 pages ; 20 cm.
Series Australia's great war 5.
Notes ''The tide turns..."--Cover.
Includes historical notes and bibliographic references.
The planes kept flying low above them. They were dropping bombs and the noise drowned out all other sounds. After an hour the signal rang out and they surged forward through the smoke. Thousands of men screaming and yelling, their line was kilometres wide. Behind them came Monash's tanks, those huge, new mobile machines. They smothered the land they ran over; flattening the crops and then any wire left standing. With Russia out of the war, the Germans have sent all the troops to the Western Front. Almost defeated, a small group of Australians fight to hold the enemy back at Villers-Brettoneux. Weary after years of fighting and deadlock, Ned and his mates know that the war will be lost if they can't turn the tide. More and more, Ned's thoughts turn to home, not knowing if he will ever see his family, or his brother, again.
Subject Australia. -- Army. -- Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)Military life
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian -- Juvenile fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- Juvenile fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Juvenile fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction
Somme, 2nd Battle of the, France, 1918 -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories
Villers-Bretonneux (France) -- Juvenile fiction
Scoop Holdings NESL:M
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