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Beazley to launch war book in Adelaide

Wednesday, 8 March 2000

FEDERAL Opposition leader Kim Beazley is making a special visit to Adelaide on Thursday, 9 March, to launch a new book on World War One.

The First World War has been written by Adelaide ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Professor Emeritus Trevor Wilson and Adelaide ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ graduate Robin Prior, now Associate Professor and Head of the School of History at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Defence Force Academy in Canberra.

The book is part of The Cassell History of Warfare series, a multi-volume history of war and warfare from ancient to modern times.

Mr Beazley is making a flying visit to Adelaide solely for the purpose of launching the book, having read and enjoyed a previous war book by Professors Wilson and Prior titled Passchendaele: the Untold Story.

Adelaide ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ itself has strong connections to World War One: more than 500 staff and students fought in the war, with the first South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n to be awarded the Victoria Cross, Captain A.S. Blackburn, being a Law graduate.

Nobel Prize winner William Lawrence Bragg's work on the technique known as sound-ranging during World War One saw him awarded an OBE.

Sound ranging was used to locate enemy guns from the sound of their firing, with Bragg helping to develop a microphone which distinguished between the report of a gun and the shockwave of the shell.

Bragg learnt of his 1915 Nobel Prize while he was setting up a sound-ranging station near Ypres in November 1916.

Where: Mitchell Building foyer, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide.
When: 5.45pm-7pm on Thursday, 9 March.

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