Full title: The desert column : leaves from the diary of an Australian trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai, and Palestine / Ion Idriess ; foreword by Harry Chauvel ; introduction by Ross Coulthart.

Author/creator: Chauvel, Henry George, Sir, 1865-1945, Coulthart, Ross, Idriess, Ion L. (Ion Llewellyn), 1890-1979.

Call Numbers: H 2021/2716

Record Identifier: 74VKaVvzMkOM

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: 270 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm., , , , ,

Publishers: Exile Bay, NSW : ETT Imprint, 2021.

Notes: "Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai, and Palestine during WW1. The Desert Column is based on the diaries that Idriess kept throughout the war. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. Harry Chauvel noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was "viewed entirely from the private soldier's point of view..." Idriess served as a sniper with the 5th Australian Light Horse. Enlisting in 1914, he began his diary "as we crowded the decks off Gallipoli" and he continued writing until returning to Australia... The diaries cover his experience of some of the war's major events from life in the trenches at Gallipoli to the battles at Romani and Beersheba. One of Idriess' strengths as a writer is his ability to place the reader at the scene of the action..." by Australian War Memorial--Back cover. First published by Angus & Robertson publishers Australia 1932.

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DDC: 940.415

MMS ID: 991024412722102626