Maurice Shadbolt : Voices of Gallipoli

By MARGIE THOMSON

If anything can bring the horrors of Gallipoli to poignant life, it is the voices of men who fought there. First published in 1988, it is good to see this great historical resource back in print.

While it's true that many young men went off to fight this war with a great spirit of adventure, their subsequent perspective, born of terrible experience, is summed up by Joe Gasparich who, at the time Shadbolt spoke to him in 1982, was sitting up jauntily in a wheelchair in a rest home - one of the lucky ones: "I see war as a waste of men and of time. It didn't settle anything. What did we win? What did we get?"

David Ling

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