The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins

Patsy Adam-Smith

ISBN 10: 0143571664 / ISBN 13: 9780143571667

Published by Penguin Random House Australia, 2014

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Patsy Adam-Smith, Penguin Random House Australia. The Anzacs remains unrivalled as the classic account of Australia's involvement in the First World War.Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was no time for escape or burial. And when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European Campaign. Patsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about the First World War. These are the extraordinary experiences of ordinary men - and they strike to the heart.The Anzacs remains unrivalled as the classic account of Australia's involvement in the First World War.Patsy Adam-Smith, AO, OBE, was born in 1926 in Nowingi, Victoria. She wasthe daughter of country railway workers and went on to write about her childhood in Hear the Train Blow, 1964. The author of some30 books, shehad the rare ability to tap our Australian consciousness and bring us closer to our national identity. Throughout her life she has displayed a passion for adventure and scholarship, and a great love of Australia. The Anzacs shared the 1978 Age Book of the Year Award and was made into a popular TV series. In 1980 she received an OBE for services to literature, and in 1994 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for her contribution to community history. Patsy Adam-Smith died in 2001.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143571664
• ISBN 13: 9780143571667
• Binding: Paperback
• Book Type: Paperback

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Synopsis

If you have not read The Anzacs there will always be a part of Australia you will never understand.

[Les Carlyon, The Australian.]

Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was not time for escape or burial. And when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European Campaign.

Patsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about the First World War. Soldiers sought her out to tell her why they went, what they saw, and how they felt about that great holocaust. Their simple accounts are more vivid than any novel; the years have not dimmed their memories of lost comrades and the horrors of war. These are the extraordinary experiences of ordinary men - and they strike to the heart.

Winner of the Age Book of the Year award when first published in 1978, The Anzacs remains unrivalled as the classic account of Australia's involvement in the First World War.