Quite apart from the experience of reading the book, which I found draining, Beaumont makes some important points to counterbalance the type of history that is warping our present day politics and being pushed so insistently in this year of commemoration as demonstrated in Henry Reynold’s recent ...
As DADOS of the Australian & New Zealand Division, Beck landed with Godley’s Headquarters at ANZAC Cove at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.[42]Lieutenant Colonel Fenwick, ADMS, another New Zealander, was part of the Headquarters landing party describes the events on that day:[43] “Wewere all ...
where so many men would lose their lives, Alec Campbell was the last living link to a revered chapter inAustralia's history. The Anzac story spawned the most important day on the Australian calendar -Anzac Daycaptures a spirit, and kindles...