Lectures from the Allen Room & Wertheim Study: General John Monash

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October 8, 2014

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Nancy E. Weidner (Wertheim Study), a New Yorker and former corporate tax attorney, is researching for an historical novel based on the life of Australian John Monash, a civilian who became the highest-ranking Jewish general on the Western Front once he ascended to command of the Australian Army Corps.   It is little known, in this country, that the first Americans to engage in an offensive on the Western Front were under his control on the Fourth of July, 1918, during a 93-minute operation: The Battle of Hamel. It became the blueprint for subsequent campaigns that led to the armistice and an end to the war. King George V knighted him on the battlefield in France. His portrait is engraved on the Australian $100 bill and a university is named in his honor.

This lecture is in conjunction with the exhibit Over Here : WWI and the Fight for the American MindNow through February 15