Quinn's Post, Anzac, Gallipoli / Peter Stanley.
Material type: TextPublication details: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2005.Description: xxii, 226 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1741143322
- 9781741143324
- 940.426 22
- D568.3 .S73 2005
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Nonfiction | Stratford Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 940.426 STA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A00459346 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-219) and index.
Foreword -- Note on style -- Maps -- Photographs -- Prologue: Tuggeranong Homestead, 1922 -- Introduction: 'Key of the Anzac position' -- 'The fatal power of a young enthusiasm': the men of 1914 and the Dardanelles -- 'The most critical position': the creation of Quinn's post -- 'The defence of Anzac': holding Quinn's in May -- 'Some uneasiness at Quinn's: two attacks and a truce -- 'The Turks break into Quinn's: climax on 29 May -- 'Several minor operations': the New Zealand sorties in June -- 'If he had had roses ... ': the transformation of Quinn's -- 'No turning and no escape': mid-summer at Quinn's -- 'Men devoted to die': the August offensive -- 'Serious offensive action underground': autumn at Anzac -- 'Hillsides abandoned to the enemy': the evacuation of Anzac -- 'Anzac now belonged to the past': looking back on Quinn's Post.
'An unbroken stillness': Quinn's today -- Epilogue.
For the entire Gallipoli campaign, Quinn's Post was critical to the defence of Anzac [Cove]. Yet we know very little more about Quinn's than we did in 1924. This book tells the powerful story of the Australians and New Zealanders who lived and died at Quinn's Post, from the first hours of the landing to the final minutes of the evacuation.
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