Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 The Frontier of Debt

2 The Reluctant Schoolboy

3 The Making of a Soldier

4 Stranger in a Strange Land

5 Facing Up to Fear

6 Return of the Soldier

7 The Road to Gallipoli

8 The Making of a General

9 Once on Sari Bair

10 A Poor Man’s War

11 Egypt to Armentières

12 The Cauldron of Battle

13 Behind the Lines

14 A Tactical Triumph

15 The Guns of October

16 The Road to Recovery

17 Closing the Gap

18 The Advance to the Rhine

19 I’ll Soldier No More

20 The Years of Service

21 The Maverick Politician

22 Lobbyist and Political Activist

23 The ‘Four Colonels’ Affair

24 The Threat from the North

25 ‘Too Many Ghosts on Memory’s Stage’

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

 

List of Maps

The Gallipoli Campaign: April–December 1915

The Gallipoli Peninsula: 1915

The Western Front: 1915–18

Third Battle of the Somme: 15 September 1916

Battle of Messines: 7 June 1917

First Battle of Passchendaele: 12 October 1917

The ‘Kaiserschlact’: March–July 1918

The NZ Division Advance: 21 August– 11 November 1918