Bush Heroes. A People A Place A Legend

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Publisher Place: Fremantle
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: Reprint

Description: 240 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Fascinating Story Of The Men Of Anzac,of Hardship And Struggle Of Both The Australian Bush And Gallipoli,which Have Created Our Most Powerful Legends.

Publishers Description: More than one quarter of the Australian soldiers chosen to land on Gallipoli at dawn on 25 April 1915 were Western Australians. Four years later, only one in four of them had escaped death or severe injury. But that morning, by climbing the cliffs under a hail of Turkish bullets, they won a permanent place in Australias most celebrated national legend. At Gallipoli that was all any of the attacking troops won.The British and French, whose armies also suffered heavy losses at the Dardanelles, regarded the campaign as nothing but a humiliating military disaster best forgotten. In Australia Gallipoli was hailed as the proving of a nations soul and the day of the landing became sacred.This book is not a military history but a regional history about Western Australians who volunteered for the 1914-18 War. The Great War experience, rather than changing the nature of society, became a climactic, symbolic expression of much of what Australians already understood about life. The war acted as a myth, where life situations recognised by white Australians were brought together in one catastrophic whole, to create a story of unrivalled emotional impact.

ISBN: 9781863683753