Gallipoli: A Short History
Allen & Unwin, $27.99 pb, 230 pp, 9781742370286
Gallipoli: A Short History by Michael McKernan & Pozières: The Anzac Story by Scott Bennett
Michael McKernan states in his introduction to his short book on Gallipoli that he is dissatisfied with much writing on military history. He writes: ‘Military history is often presented as a thing of maps and statistics, a brutal narrative based on the deployments and motives of commanders with a score sheet of those who performed well and those who failed. In this book I have tried to go beyond that ... to show that somewhere for each life lost, there was long mourning and deep grief.’
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