Australia In Arms: The Story of Gallipoli

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The whole Allied front was barely four miles, swept by a terrible inferno of shells. The air was filled with the white woolly clouds that the Anzac menold soldiers nowknew meant a hail of lead.

Published soon after the evacuation from Gallipoli, Australia in Arms is a vital early account of the Dardanelles campaign. The young journalist Philip Schuler, later killed in battle, witnessed `the whole of the August offensive fromtrenches at Lone Pine. He saw the valour of the Anzacs, and recognised too the strength of their Turkish opponents. Vivid and incisive, his book is one of the great achievements of Australian military writing.

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`The best and fullest story yet of the whole Anzac campaign. -- General Sir John Monash
`Remarkably fresh, compelling and dispassionate. -- Mark Baker

Author Bio

Phillip Schuler, born in Melbourne in 1889, is one of Australias most significant World War I reporters. The son of the editor of the Age, he volunteered in 1914 to sail to Egypt as the newspapers war correspondent. In 1915 he travelled to Turkey, where he was embedded with Anzac soldiers. Written on Schulers return home, Australia in Arms was the first full-length account of the Australian Imperial Forces Gallipoli offensive. By the time it was published, in early 1916, Phillip Schuler had enlisted with the AIF. He died in 1917 of injuries sustained in the Battle of Messines.