Pozieres: The Anzac Story

Scott Bennett

Pozieres: The Anzac Story
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Country
Australia
Published
15 March 2012
Pages
416
ISBN
9781921844836

Pozieres: The Anzac Story

Scott Bennett

Revealing account of the battle for Pozi res that re-examines the tragic events and questions the Anzac legend that was forged there.

In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozi res. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task.At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands of Australians stormed Pozi res. Forty-five days later they were relieved, having suffered 23,000 casualties to gain a few miles of barren, lunar landscape. Despite the toll, the operation was heralded as a stunning victory. Yet for the exhausted survivors, the war-weary public, and the families of the dead and maimed, victory came at such terrible cost.Drawing on their letters and diaries of the men who fought at Pozi res, this superb book reveals a battlefield drenched in chaos and fear. Bennett sheds light on the story behind the official history, re-creating the experience of those men who fought in one of the largest and most devastating battles of the Great War and returned home, all too often, as shattered men.

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