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Oddfellows / Nicholas Shakespeare.
Series: Vintage bookPublication details: North Sydney, N.S.W. : Vintage Books, 2015.Description: 121 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780857987181 (paperback)
- 0857987186 (paperback)
- Oddfellows : Picnic Day, Broken Hill, 1 January 1915 an unexpected enemy attack
- Historical fiction
- Australian fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Fiction
- Terrorism -- New South Wales -- Broken Hill -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- New South Wales -- Broken Hill -- Fiction
- Mass murder -- New South Wales -- Broken Hill -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Historical fiction
- Broken Hill (N.S.W.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Broken Hill (N.S.W.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Broken Hill (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | SHA | Available | 058502 |
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A Vintage book.
"Picnic Day, Broken Hill, 1 January 1915, an unexpected attack"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
On 1 January 1915, ramifications from the First World War, raging half a world away, were felt in Broken Hill, Australia, when in a guerrilla-style military operation, four citizens were killed and seven wounded. It was the annual picnic day in Broken Hill and a thousand citizens were dressed for fun when the only enemy attack to take place on Australian soil during World War I, took them by surprise. Nicholas Shakespeare has taken this little known piece of Australian history and turned it into a story for our time.
