{"product_id":"monash-chauvel","title":"Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's Two Greatest Generals Changed the Course of World History - Roland Perry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the emergence and dominance of these brilliant Australian soldiers, who commanded the two most effective armies in defeating the Germans and the Turks in the Great War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMonash and Chauvel follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Monash commanded the Australian forces on the Western Front at the most critical time of the war, 1918. With his German Jewish heritage, Monash was an outsider who had risen to his position through his ground-breaking military achievements. Almost uniquely among Allied generals on the Western Front, he learned the lessons of past failures and devised the tactics that allowed his Australian troops to break through the stalemate of trench warfare, masterminding crucial battles, including Amiens, Mont St Quentin, Peronne, and at the Hindenburg Line that broke the German Army in France. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the war against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East, Harry Chauvel led the 34,000-strong Desert Mounted Column. Chauvel was an Empire man, who considered himself as British first, Australian second. His attitude changed in the course of the war, when he realised he would have to ignore the directives of his British superiors and take the initiative in planning battle tactics himself if he was to defeat the Turks. He did this at Romani in the Sinai in August 1916; at Beersheba on 31 October 1917; and in the final 1918 drive to push the Turks right out of the Middle East.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMonash and Chauve's impact on the war was immense and, in this fascinating and compelling account, bestselling author Roland Perry does full justice to their extraordinary careers and the soldiers under their command.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRoland Perry is one of Australia's best known authors. He has written 28 books, many of them going on to become bestsellers, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHorrie the War Dog, Bill the Bastard, The Queen, Her Lover, and the Most Notorious Spy in History, Bradman's Invincibles, The Changi Brownlow, The Australian Light Horse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonash: The Outsider Who Won a War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAllen \u0026amp; Unwin 2019 paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45134056620101,"sku":null,"price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/9997\/3445\/files\/monash-and-chauvel-how-australias-two-greatest-generals-changed-the-course-of-world-history-roland-perry-monashandchauvel-1141887.jpg?v=1781532486","url":"https:\/\/shop.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au\/products\/monash-chauvel","provider":"Sydney Jewish Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}