By Ross McMullin,Les Carlyon
Pompey Elliott was once a striking Australian. throughout the nice warfare he used to be a charismatic, arguable, and outstandingly winning army chief. An complete tactician and ‘the bravest of the brave’, he was once well known for by no means sending someone anyplace he used to be no longer ready to head himself. for that reason, no Australian normal was once extra respected through these he led or extra well-known outdoor his personal command.
A guy of unimpeachable integrity and unwavering dedication, he used to be additionally forthright and unstable. His tempestuousness generated a bunch of anecdotes that amused his males and disconcerted his superiors.
Yet strangely little have been written approximately Elliott till the unique version of this ebook seemed in 2002. Now in a brand new layout and with a foreword via Les Carlyon, this complete, deeply researched biography tells Elliott’s interesting tale. It vividly examines Elliott’s origins and adolescence, his peacetime careers as a attorney and flesh presser, and his achievements — in addition to the controversies he aroused in the course of his years as a soldier.
Ross McMullin’s masterly paintings retrieves an important Australian from undeserved obscurity. It additionally judiciously reassesses outstanding battles he prompted — together with the Gallipoli touchdown, Lone Pine, Fromelles, Polygon wooden, and Villers-Brettoneux — and illuminates various features of Australia’s stories in the course of his lifetime, rather the often-overlooked interval of the aftermath to the nice War.
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