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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Maestro John Monash : Australia's Greatest Citizen General
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'Who was the most innovative general of World War One? For Tim Fischer, the answer has to be Australia’s ‘Maestro’ John Monash, a man who, for all the recognition he received in his lifetime and after, has arguably not been given his proper due.

'Fischer also asks why Monash, Australian Army Corps Commander, was never promoted to Field Marshal, postwar, as international precedent suggested was most appropriate, pointing the finger primarily at the Australian prime minister of the time, Billy Hughes, within a wider context of establishment suspicion towards this son of a German Jewish migrant.

‘A perfected modern battle plan is like nothing so much as a score for an orchestral composition, where the various arms and units are the instruments, and the tasks they perform are their respective musical phrases. Every individual unit must make its entry precisely at the proper moment and play its phrase in the general harmony.’

— John Monash

Publication summary

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Clayton, Murrumbeena - Oakleigh - Springvale area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Monash University Publishing , 2014 .
      image of person or book cover 4573206458798676509.jpg
      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: xxxiii, 268p 16 unnumberd pages of platesp.
      Description: illustrations (some colour), colour maps, portraits
      Note/s:
      • Published November 2014
      ISBN: 9781922235596

Works about this Work

The Measure of His Genius : Two Different Approaches to a Wartime General John Ramsland , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January-February no. 378 2016; (p. 58-59)

— Review of Monash : The Soldier Who Shaped Australia Grantlee Kieza , 2015 single work biography ; Maestro John Monash : Australia's Greatest Citizen General Tim Fischer , 2014 single work biography
The Memory of Sir John Monash Peter Ryan , 2015 single work biography
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 59 no. 4 2015; (p. 110-112)
The Measure of His Genius : Two Different Approaches to a Wartime General John Ramsland , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January-February no. 378 2016; (p. 58-59)

— Review of Monash : The Soldier Who Shaped Australia Grantlee Kieza , 2015 single work biography ; Maestro John Monash : Australia's Greatest Citizen General Tim Fischer , 2014 single work biography
The Memory of Sir John Monash Peter Ryan , 2015 single work biography
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 59 no. 4 2015; (p. 110-112)
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