Pozieres: The ANZAC Story - Scott Bennett - Softcover PM20 Ill-Starred General is the biography

Ill-Starred General is the biography of a much maligned man from one of history's most vital eras

This book examines their development

and in several important respects were further ahead than the Germans would be even in 1918

Despite the importance of the war

This book discusses the successes and failures of the British and the German forces along the frontline

Pozieres: The ANZAC Story - Scott Bennett - Softcover PM20 Ill-Starred General is the biographyIn 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozires. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task. At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands of Australians stormed Pozires. Forty five days later they were relieved, having suffered 23,000 casualties to gain a few miles of barren landscape. Despite the