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Lost Boys of Anzac

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Lost Boys of Anzac
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Peter Stanley
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 153
Category/GenreMilitary history
First world war
ISBN/Barcode 9781742233970
ClassificationsDewey:940.426
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher NewSouth Publishing
Imprint NewSouth Publishing
Publication Date 1 April 2014
Publication Country Australia

Description

Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war? Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the very first wave to land at dawn on 25 April 1915 and who died on that day. There were exactly 101 of them. They were the first to volunteer, the first to go into action, and the first of the 60,000 Australians killed in that conflict. Lost Boys of Anzac traces who these men were, where they came from and why they came to volunteer for the AIF in 1914. It follows what happened to them in uniform and, using sources overlooked for nearly a century, uncovers where and how they died, on the ridges and gullies of Gallipoli - where most of them remain to this day. And we see how the Lost Boys were remembered by those who knew and loved them, and how they have since faded from memory.

Author Biography

Peter Stanley is a Research Professor at UNSW, Canberra, at ADFA. He has published over 25 books, many in Australian military social history, including The Remote Garrison, Tarakan, Invading Australia, Digger Smith and Australia's Great War and Bad Characters, which jointly won the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2011.