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Scarecrow Army: The ANZACS at Gallipoli
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On 25 April 1915, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders landed at an unnamed cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula. They had come to fight the Turks. They thought the battle would be over in three days. Months later they were still in the trenches they'd dug at the landing. Anzac Cove became a graveyard where bodies lay above the ground and the living slept under it. They
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l like it because of the diary entry. It capture my attention and it is the sort of type that l love reading
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I too should 'fess up that Leon is a friend of mine - and I can only admire his work ethic!
This is just the sort of creative "faction" I love - getting under the skin of history and personalising it. There are so many myths about Gallipoli and this book addresses and corrects many of them without fact-bashing. I had no idea, for example that 10,000 Frenchmen died there. You would have thought their losses in Europe were awful enough...
My grandfather was a stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli and was pa ...more
This is just the sort of creative "faction" I love - getting under the skin of history and personalising it. There are so many myths about Gallipoli and this book addresses and corrects many of them without fact-bashing. I had no idea, for example that 10,000 Frenchmen died there. You would have thought their losses in Europe were awful enough...
My grandfather was a stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli and was pa ...more
Amazing book giving perspective and facts from both sides. Moving, confronting, and a must-read for all Australians.
i loved it
I liked this book! It told me a lot about what happened at ANZAC Cove in World War I and what the soldiers went through.
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