Gallipoli by Jenny Macleod – Book Review
Bookshops have seen no shortage of new products with the word ‘Gallipoli’ in their titles over the past few months, so my challenge here is to explain what makes Gallipoli […]
Maestro John Monash: Australia’s greatest citizen general by Tim Fischer – Book Review
Maestro John Monash is not so much a biography or military history book as a long essay making the argument to posthumously promote Sir John Monash to the rank of […]
The Grand Deception Churchill and the Dardanelles by Tom Curran – Book Review
It will come as no surprise that this book lays responsibility for the Dardanelles campaign of 1915 at Winston Churchill’s feet.
Bearing Witness: the remarkable life of Charles Bean, Australia’s greatest war correspondent by Peter Rees
Book Review – Bearing Witness is a remarkably insightful and informative biography of C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean – arguably Australia’s most famous war correspondent and war historian.
Malones Men and Chunuk Bair 1915
The battle of Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli, was part of a combined assault to take the Sari Bair Range.
The War with the Ottoman Empire by Jeffrey Grey – Book Review
The War with the Ottoman Empire is the second volume in The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War series.
ANZAC Girls by Peter Rees
While more than forty Australian civilian nurses had served officially in the Boer War (1899 -1902) in South Africa, the outbreak of World War I on 4 August 1914 brought […]
Private Brendan Calcutt – Gallipoli P.O.W.
Service number 2124. One of the few Australian prisoners taken during the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign.
