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Pozieres: The Anzac Story

Pozieres: The Anzac Story

The Anzac Story

by Scott Bennett
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/03/2012

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Revealing account of the battle for Pozi res that re-examines the tragic events and questions the Anzac legend that was forged there.

In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozi res. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task.At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands of Australians stormed Pozi res. Forty-five days later they were relieved, having suffered 23,000 casualties to gain a few miles of barren, lunar landscape. Despite the toll, the operation was heralded as a stunning victory. Yet for the exhausted survivors, the war-weary public, and the families of the dead and maimed, victory came at such terrible cost.Drawing on their letters and diaries of the men who fought at Pozi res, this superb book reveals a battlefield drenched in chaos and fear. Bennett sheds light on the story behind the official history, re-creating the experience of those men who fought in one of the largest and most devastating battles of the Great War and returned home, all too often, as shattered men.
ISBN:
9781921844836
9781921844836
Category:
First World War
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-03-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Scribe Publications
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
209x136x27mm
Weight:
0.4kg
Scott Bennett

Scott Bennett was born in Bairnsdale, Victoria, in 1966, and holds an Executive Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of Sydney. He has worked for many of Australia's most recognised retail companies as a management consultant or an executive manager.

In 2003, he visited the Great War battlefields in France and Belgium to retrace the steps of his great-uncles, who had fought there. The experience led him to question the many truths that have developed around the Anzac legend. The result was the writing of The Nameless Names and his first book, Pozi res, which re-examined the battle of Pozi res and the Anzac legend.

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