Myth Maker. Ellus Ashmead-Bartlett - The Englishman Who Sparked Australia's Gallipoli Legend

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Wiley
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 285 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Ashmead-Bartlett was the son of a British MP who became a famous war correspondent, covering con icts from Asia to Morocco. He wrote hisrst despatches about the Gallipoli landing that appeared in Australian newspapers. His reporting was a sensation and set the ame under adistinctive Australian sense of nationalism at the time. Whilst Charles Beans ofcial war stories kept the ame alive, it was Ashmead-Bartlett who lit the spark!This amazing story will take you inside the mind of this Englishman, who became the unexpected correspondent responsible for igniting our passion in the Gallipoli legend. He too was on the frontline, surviving a submarine torpedo attack on the Battleship Majestic off the shores of Gallipoli. There was no doubting his bravery, his reporting expertise and his inuence on our nation.

ISBN: 9781740311182