The Desert Column 31/e Jacob Bronowski historian John C

historian John C

The book is organized into five parts

Together these stories reveal a world beyond the reach of most travelers

some of his themes acquire a very distinctive focus - such as vivid accounts of the 'intimate history' of Christianity

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The Desert Column 31/e Jacob Bronowski historian John CThe Desert Column is based on the diaries that Idriess kept throughout the war. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. Harry Chauvel noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was "viewed entirely from the private soldier's point of view" Idriess served as a sniper with the 5th Australian Light Horse. Enlisting in 1914, he began his diary "as we crowded the decks off Gallipoli" and he