Men of Mont St Quentin: Between Victory and Death

by Peter Stanley

At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five more were wounded, one of whom died six weeks later. The survivors returned from war, more-or-less intact, to live through the next sixty-odd years in the shadow of that traumatic event. Men of Mont...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 192121533X
• ISBN13: 9781921215339
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Scribe Us
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"