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Australia's participation in World War I—and subsequent casualties—was unparalleled in its short history, and, it is fair to say, will never be repeated again. Briefly, out of just over 1,000,000 men who were eligible to enlist and fight overseas, 420,000 did just that. Of this number, over 62,000 were killed and a further 156,000 were wounded—56.7%. If that was translated into Australia's population today—approximately twenty-five million—it would equate into over one million casualties. This was over a period of just over four years. This publication traces the enlistment and subsequent deaths on the Western Front, France, of two Australian brothers—James and George Stevens—from a rural town in South-East Queensland, Australia. The book is rich in primary evidence, such as correspondence to their families. It also covers the main battles on the Western Front and includes the various memorials—national and international—dedicated to Australia's losses. Students of Australia's military history, as well as people who try to make some sense of these enormous losses, will find this book invaluable.

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Dr Bob East is an Australian researcher and author whose area of interest is criminality and terrorism in the southern Philippines. His previous publications, dealing specifically with terrorist events in the greater Mindanao region of the southern Philippines, include Terror Truncated: The Decline of the Sabu Sayyaf from the Crucial Year 2002 (2013); 472 Days Captive of the Abu Sayyaf (2015); The Neo Abu Sayyaf (2016); and 21st Century Philippine Piracy. His alma mater is the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

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