The whole Allied front was barely four miles, swept by a terrible inferno of shells. The air was filled with the white, woolly clouds that the Anzac men—old soldiers now—knew meant a hail of lead.
First published in 1916, Australia in Arms is a vital early account of the Gallipoli campaign. The young journalist Phillip Schuler, later killed in battle, witnessed ‘the whole of the August offensive from...trenches at Lone Pine’. He saw the valour of the Anzacs, and recognised too the strength of their Turkish opponents.
Vivid and incisive, his is one of the finest achievements of Australian military writing.
‘Remarkably fresh, compelling and dispassionate.’ Mark Baker
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