The heroic and tragic Gallipoli campaign of 1915 has become a touchstone of Australasian pride and a milestone in the development of Australia and New Zealand as independent nations. This vivid account, published within months of the action, is a journalist's record of the operations around the Dardanelles based on hundreds of interviews with wounded survivors of the campaign that he conducted in London hospitals. The Anzacs bore the brunt of the savage fighting for the Gallipoli peninsula for five desperate months, suffering 25,000 casualties in the course of it. Buley's book covers the...
The heroic and tragic Gallipoli campaign of 1915 has become a touchstone of Australasian pride and a milestone in the development of Australia and New...
In the course of writing this book I have interviewed some hundreds of wounded Australasian soldiers in London hospitals. From their narratives, delivered with a modesty which I have not sought to reproduce here, I gathered much material not obtainable in the short official accounts given of their exploits. The temptation to record individual deeds of remarkable bravery has been strong, but in most cases it has been resisted. This comparatively small force, which has suffered 25,000 casualties in less than five months, consists of men who are all heroes. After the first few days on Gallipoli,...
In the course of writing this book I have interviewed some hundreds of wounded Australasian soldiers in London hospitals. From their narratives, deliv...
