Gallipoli

Les Carlyon

Pan/Macmillan

<p>This account of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 brings an epic tragedy to life. As well as taking the reader into the trenches to witness the fear, courage and humour of the soldiers who fought there, describing their experiences, whether Australian, British, New Zealand, French or Turkish, it examines those who led them: the generals and politicians - some brilliant, some ruthless, some hopelessly incompetent - who held the lives of tens of thousands of young men in their hands. From the grand military and political strategies to the squalor of the front line, it is a haunting insight into the realities of war. The struggle for the Gallipoli Peninsula was dominated by the terrain as much as by men and steel, and here the battlefields come alive as the author guides the reader through them, evoking the landscape. Using an intimate knowledge of Gallipoli itself (his researches also took him to the UK, France, Australia and New Zealand), together with storytelling and scholarship, Les Carlyon has written an immediate account of one of modern history's defining moments.</p>

Transworld Hardbacks

Chasing a Dream

Raceplay, the Sporting Company Pty Ltd

True Grit: Revised and Updated

ADULT LOCAL VINTAGE - MASS MKT

History

Military

Macmillan

<p>The Great War is Les Carlyon's extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago. In The Great War Carlyon has produced a masterpiece that takes the reader from the generals formulating strategy to the troops fighting cold, filth and the terror of sudden death in their trenches. Written with the same narrative skill, humanity, vivid recreation and meticulous research that made Gallipoli a number one bestseller, Les Carlyon's astonishing new book is an epic that will stand as the lasting and definitive history of Australia's involvement in the Great War. Winner of Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History 2007 and ABIA Australian General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2007 and ABIA Australian Book of the Year 2007.</p>

The Great War

Picador; Macmillan

For me racing is not your conventional industry. It's an addiction, a romantic quest,a culture and a certain sense of humor; it's loaded with danger, physical and financial, comes with a hint of conspiracy.

TRUE GRIT

Random House]

The Master

Macmillian

A Life in Words

Allen& Unwin

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