Geoffrey Travers

William Holmes

The Soldier's General [Large Print 16pt]

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Holmes commanded Australia's first independent military expeditionary force in World War I, and in New Guinea accepted the first German surrender for Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ReadHowYouWant
• Seitenzahl: 794
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1327g
• ISBN-13: 9780369391087
• ISBN-10: 036939108X
• Artikelnr.: 68293925

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Travers was educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore) and Sydney University where he graduated in economics and law. Although not a soldier himself, he comes from a long line of soldiers: his great-great-grandfathers, Captain William Holmes and Lieutenant Henry Green of the New South Wales Force; his great-grandfather, Major General William Holmes; his grandfathers and great-uncle, Colonel Jack Travers, Colonel Hector Clayton and Colonel Basil Holmes, who served at Gallipoli and in France in the First World War; and his father, Captain William Travers, who was a prisoner of war of the Germans during the Second World War.