The Anzacs
Subtitle: Gallipoli to the Western Front
By: Peter Pedersen
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Camberwell, Vic; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780670041244
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Regimental histories; Campaigns; Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps; Great Britain
Other titles: Gallipoli to the Western Front
Description: "This important book traces the evolution of the Australian Imperial Force from the enthusiastic amateurs of Gallipoli to the skilled warriors of the Western Front, where fighting in conditions of unspeakable horror and brutality they won their legendary reputation as 'the best infantry men of the war and perhaps of all time'. By war's end the Australian Corps - a mere 9 per cent of the total British force - accounted for 22 per cent of total captures: a massive, and disproportionate, contribution to victory. Combining detailed battle narratives with soldiers' accounts, Peter Pedersen moves from Gallipoli through Palestine to the Western Front, graphically recreating the campaigns of a war in which over 200,000 Australians - two out of every three combatants - were killed or wounded. Illustrated with over 300 photographs and artworks, this epic work recalls to memory the forgotten heroes, and the bloody campaigns, of a war that brought glory to the Australian nation but tragedy to every Australian family." -- BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-428) and index.