The Battle for Lone Pine
Four Days of Hell at the Heart of Gallipolli
$25.59
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2015
Summary
The first book devoted to the terrible battle at the heart of the Anzac legend, using moving first-hand accounts to tell the story from within the trenches as well as behind the front lines.
Most Australians have heard of Lone Pine. Too few know why.
Over four days in August 1915, Australians and Turks were thrown into some of the fiercest fighting of the war, on a small plateau in Gallipoli known as Lone Pine. Thousands of lives were lost. Seven of Australia’s nine Gallipoli …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143572114 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143572113 |
| Author: | David W. Cameron |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 136mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
‘A fine work of military and social history.’ Weekend Australian ‘We now have a powerfully written and well-illustrated book that focuses on this tragic action.’ Sydney Morning Herald
About The Author
David W. Cameron
David W. Cameron received his PhD in biological anthropology in 1995 at the Australian National University and is a former Australian Research Council QEII Fellow at the Department of Anatomy & Histology, University of Sydney. He has conducted fieldwork in Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He is the author of several books on Australian military history and primate evolutionary biology and has published over 60 papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals. He lives in Canberra.
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