Gallipoli mission

by C.E.W. Bean

401 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_...

Official historian of Australia's involvement in World War I.

C.E.W. Bean (Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean)wrote the first 6 volumes of the Official History.

The official history has been digitised and is available:
http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/first...

Reviews

[Peter Langston · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fascinating read considering it was seventy years ago, relating to matters which happened more than 100 years in the past. Whilst purporting to be about the project undertaken to identify the graves of members of the AIF who fought and died on the Gallipoli Peninsular, at least half of the book is given over to descriptions of battles and life in 1915.

[Shaun Major · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fascinating story and it is lovely to see the prose Bean is capable of when he lets go of his inner historian and simply tells a tale of a man revisiting a nation's history and the ghosts of the men of 1915.

[Mick Maye · Rating 5 out of 5]

The official mission back to Gallipoli after the war to explore assumptions made during the war and to view the campaign from the Turkish positions. Extraordinary.