Sorry, Lads, But the Order Is to Go: The August Offensive, Gallipoli: 1915

by David W. Cameron

The August Offensive was the last attempt by the Allied forces to break the stalemate with the Turkish defenders that had developed since the Anzac landings in late April 1915. This book recreates in compelling detail the first five days of the offensive.

Genres: History

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

David W. Cameron is a Canberra based author and has written several books on Australian military and convict history and human and primate evolution including over 60 internationally peer reviewed papers for various journals and book chapters. He received 1st Class Honours in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Sydney and later went on to complete his Ph.D. in palaeoanthropology at the Australian National University.

He is a former Australian Research Council (ARC) Post Doctorial Fellow at the Australian National University (School of Archaeology) and an ARC QEII Fellow at the University of Sydney (Department of Anatomy and Histology). He has participated and led several international fieldwork teams in Australia, the Middle East (Turkey, Jordan, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates); Europe (Hungary) and Asia (Vietnam and India) and has participated in many conferences and museum studies throughout the world.

Reviews

[Michael C · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book difficult to read. I appreciated the collation of the primary sources. However, I found it difficult to visualise the events being described without maps that I understood and photos.

[Shaun Major · Rating 3 out of 5]

After Cameron's brilliant book on the day of the landing and his ability to make sense of the confusion across the ridges and gullies I had been looking forward to this book for some time. Once again he ranges across the battlefield, telling a number of true stories concurrently. This time, however, he lacks the grittiness and the freshness that wee hallmarks of his previous effort. He writes well as always, but in the end this feels like little more than. Charles Bean retell I with more stylish and less rigid prose. Serviceable, but ultimately does not do or reveal anything new with his material.