The Big Book of Australia`s War Stories: A Collection of Stories of Australia`s Iconic Battles and Campaigns from the Boer War to Vietnam, Haynes Jim

These are the stories that explain Australias wartime reputation. Fifteen years before Gallipoli, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writing of stoic Australian courage, would say, When the ballad makers of Australia seek for a subject, let them turn to Elands River. Of Gallipoli, a British officer called the cheerful, insubordinate Aussies the bravest thing God ever made. And before the Normandy invasion, Field Marshall Montgomerys chief of staff remarked, I only wish we had the Australian 9th Division with us this morning.