The Anzacs
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the sun-scorched plains of Australia and New Zealand, a generation of young men marched into the crucible of the First World War — and forged a legend that would define two nations forever. The Anzacs by Patsy Adam-Smith chronicles the extraordinary human story behind the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, drawing on diaries, letters, and first-hand testimonies to reconstruct the lived experience of ordinary soldiers thrust into the extraordinary theatres of Gallipoli, the Western Front, and beyond. It is a work of profound empathy and historical rigour, capturing both the camaraderie and the carnage that shaped the ANZAC legend, and presenting war not as abstraction but as an intimate, devastating reality. Adam-Smith, one of Australia's most celebrated popular historians, argues powerfully that the ANZAC story is not merely a military chronicle but the very cornerstone of Australian national identity. Her vivid, narrative-driven style — at once journalistic and deeply humane — transforms archival fragments into living voices, ensuring the men of 1914–1918 are remembered as individuals rather than statistics. A landmark work of Australian historical writing, The Anzacs remains an essential and deeply moving testament to sacrifice, mateship, and the price of nationhood — leaving the reader to wonder what truly becomes of a country built upon the bones of its young.
Author: Patsy Adam-Smith
Format: Paperback
Published: 1985, Thomas Nelson Australia
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the sun-scorched plains of Australia and New Zealand, a generation of young men marched into the crucible of the First World War — and forged a legend that would define two nations forever. The Anzacs by Patsy Adam-Smith chronicles the extraordinary human story behind the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, drawing on diaries, letters, and first-hand testimonies to reconstruct the lived experience of ordinary soldiers thrust into the extraordinary theatres of Gallipoli, the Western Front, and beyond. It is a work of profound empathy and historical rigour, capturing both the camaraderie and the carnage that shaped the ANZAC legend, and presenting war not as abstraction but as an intimate, devastating reality. Adam-Smith, one of Australia's most celebrated popular historians, argues powerfully that the ANZAC story is not merely a military chronicle but the very cornerstone of Australian national identity. Her vivid, narrative-driven style — at once journalistic and deeply humane — transforms archival fragments into living voices, ensuring the men of 1914–1918 are remembered as individuals rather than statistics. A landmark work of Australian historical writing, The Anzacs remains an essential and deeply moving testament to sacrifice, mateship, and the price of nationhood — leaving the reader to wonder what truly becomes of a country built upon the bones of its young.