"Gallipoli" by Les Carlyon

Les Carlyons "Gallipoli" is a stand out book on this subject, which is well known for its polarisation in the Australian imagination - as a type of Homerian Heroic defeat that formed a fusion with the National Psyche (If we can talk in those terms.)- especially in regards identifing with the "Mother Country" (Great Britain.) The book takes a magestic sweep through the battlefield, the decision making processes, those on the front line and behind the scenes. We get a seemless grasp of the detail and big picture issues that all form a part of the whole calamitous picture.