Friday, April 23, 2010

One-sided thinking on Gallipoli an injustice

"One-sided thinking on Gallipoli an injustice
MARTIN FLANAGAN
April 24, 2010

LEGENDS are like earthquakes. They happen. Afterwards, we try to understand the forces that created them. Anzac is an Australian legend that has a roughly analogous place to the Civil War in the American psyche. Both are stories of young nations encountering the horrors of modern warfare for the first time - that is, wars fought with repeating rifles and machineguns and appalling casualty rates. Both conflicts represent massive and unprecedented change."

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