A mere two weeks after the April landings at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, the 2nd Australian Infantry Brigade added further to its honours by the carge at the Second Battle of Krithia.
In the space of an hour, the brigade has lost 1000 dead and wounded. This heroic, but costly charge was described aby several survivors as 'sheer murde'.
These two battles, both of which form the foundation of the Anzac tradition, are vividly retold here through the diaries and letters of officers and men of the four Victorian Battalions which made up the Brigade.
Contents:
Acknowlegements
Foreword
Introduction
1. The Chain of Folly
2. 'The Army Ought to See the Business Through'
3. The Landings
4. Krithia: The First Act
5. The Second Act Begins
6. 'No Losses Will Stop You'
7. Central Spur
8. 'Have Your Forgotten Me Cobbers?'
9. 'The White Gurkhas'
Appendix A. Turkish 5th Army Order of Battle
Appendix B. British Order of Battle on 6th May 1915
Bibliography
Index
