Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac

On 3 January 1941 Australian soldiers led an assault against the\nItalian colonial fortress town of Bardia. Two days later, after 55\nhours of heavy fighting, the position fell to the Australians in a\nresounding victory. At a cost of 130 killed and 326 wounded, the\nAustralians captured around 40,000 Italian prisoners and large\nquantities of arms and equipment. The success at Bardia was\nconsidered to be one of the greatest military feats in Australian\nhistory. But despite both the scale and significance of this\nmonumental success, the Battle of Bardia has been largely neglected\nby historians and is not well known to Australians.

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