Wartime Issue 30

Autumn 2005

Gallipoli: Special 90th Anniversary Edition

  • Reflections by Steve Gower.  
    The Director of the Australian War Memorial's comment
  • Dawn of the legend by Peter Burness.  
    A new exhibition focusing on the first day at Gallipoli.
  • Eyewitness: Bean’s first despatch
    The Australian official correspondent reports from Gallipoli.
  • Our first step toward Gallipoli by Craig Wilcox.  
    Fear of Japan was the real birth of ANZAC.
  • The relevance of Australia by Chris Pugsley, Tim Travers, Tom Frame and Kenan Çelik.  
    Eminent historians respond to our question.
  • Air war over Gallipoli by Chris Clark.  
    The role played by aircraft during the campaign.
  • A mother’s pain by James Hurst.  
    The hidden cost of the Gallipoli landing.
  • Gallipoli in art by Simon Forrester.  
    Paintings by Horace Moore-Jones & Sidney Nolan.
  • Death in the Thracian Chersonese by Peter Londey.  
    The Gallipoli campaign saw fighting near ancient battlefields.
  • The write support by Dianne Rutherford.  
    A young woman’s letters to prisoners of the Turks.
  • Two seasons on Gallipoli by Peter Stanley & Brad Manera.  
    Two new films on the campaign.
  • The virtual ANZAC Walk by Richard Reid.  
    A new walking trail takes Gallipoli visitors to all the major sites.
  • Australia and Denmark in war by Peter Stanley.  
    Some surprising military connections between these two countries.
  • Sandakan: the greatest attrocity by Peter Stanley.  
    Remembering the worst single atrocity suffered by Australians.
  • Victory in Europe by Robert Nichols.  
    60th anniversary of VE Day.
  • Witnesses to war by Katherine McMahon.  
    Official war artists and photographers in East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Solomon Islands.
  • An antipodean adventure by Damien Fenton.  
    The occupation of German Samoa, August 1914.
  • Plus regular features, including book reviews, letters and Memorial news.

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