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Verey, Dave, author, compiler.

The little book of ANZACS : lest we forget / compiled and written by Dave Verey. - London : OH! an imprint of Welbeck Non-Fiction Limited, 2023. - 192 pages ; 14 cm

"Young nations do the bidding of empire and send their youth to a faraway war. Their soldiers arrive with a reputation for rebelling against authority and ill-discipline. They fight in an ill-fated campaign, under foreign command, against a well dug in enemy. Month after month they shoot and die in a whirling furnace of shrapnel and cordite. The men and their enemy, the air and the trenches: filled with blood, dust, ice, and fire. The disrespect for authority remains. But in the heat of battle - the infantrymen youth of Australia and New Zealand carve a reputation for bravery and recklessness, for discipline under fire, for cheerfulness, ingenuity and mateship. The sacrifice of the ordinary men and women of the ANZACS birth a legend that inspires today. ANZAC came to mean more than a Corp of men or a site of landing. The ANZAC story is the tale of new world nations, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the old, and being up to the test."--

ISBN: 9781800693883 1800693885

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Anzac Day--History.
Memorialization--Australia.
Memorialization--New Zealand.
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns --Turkey --Gallipoli Peninsula.

Dewey Class. No.: 940.548