25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend was Born

Part Title......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
List of maps......Page 11
Key to maps......Page 13
Turkish/English placenames......Page 15
Note to the text......Page 19
Acknowledgements......Page 21
Preamble......Page 23
Introduction—historical debates......Page 25
Anzac 1919......Page 29
1 Preparations......Page 31
Part I The Landing......Page 45
2 \'Some pieces have to be sacrificed to win the game\'......Page 47
3 \'Crack! Swish! Ping!\'......Page 59
4 \'Imshee yalla you bastard!\'......Page 68
5 \'Well, if you can\'t walk you\'ll have to damn well crawl!\'......Page 81
Anzac 1919......Page 93
6 \'For goodness sake, please hurry!\'......Page 94
7 \'The firing which we expected did not materialise\'......Page 108
8 \'Yet he was still able to swear gently\'......Page 120
Part II The Battle for the Ridges......Page 137
 9 \'I put two stripes on myself with a pencil\'......Page 139
10 \'900 yards . . . three rounds . . . fire!\'......Page 152
11 \'Those who went to the flanks never returned\'......Page 168
Anzac 1919......Page 178
12 \'What\'s the matter, laddie?\'......Page 180
13 \'His death affected me very much\'......Page 195
14 \'Heads down, arse up, and get sttuck into it!\'......Page 207
Part III The Turkish Counterattack......Page 223
15 \'Where\'s our bloody artillery?\'......Page 225
Anzac 1919......Page 240
16 \'Now then 12th Battalion\'......Page 241
17 \'There was no rest, no lull, while the rotting dead lay all around us\'......Page 259
18 \'Together we hopped and stumbled with our arms about one another\'s neck\'......Page 274
Part IV Night......Page 291
19 \'It was as though the band struck up all together, only out of tune!\'......Page 293
20 \'Those damn boys again, driving in the cows!\'......Page 303
Anzac 1919......Page 317
Notes......Page 319
Bibliography......Page 339
Index......Page 343