Inferno: Australians on the Western Front

The epic story of the Australians on history's greatest battlefront, 1916-1918

"We sprang to our feet with one mighty yell and ran and jumped into the German trench and got to work with bayonets and bombs. We were in there no more than half an hour when the German artillery found out and turned their big guns on us. He gave us 7 hours of perfect inferno."

2 August 1914: German troops cross the border and advance into Belgium and France. Two days later, Britain declared war on Germany. With A...