GALLIPOLI THE FIRST DAY – Peter D. Condon
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GALLIPOLI THE FIRST DAY – Peter D. Condon
Our soldiers were paddling ashore in small boats in the early morning darkness. There was a loud noise and a bright light and the soldiers guarding the beaches woke up and started shooting at our men in the boats. There was a lot of noise. Men were dying everywhere. Many soldiers got ashore and started fighting back.
They must have won the fight because I saw some of them marching on Anzac Day
when I was little.
That is what I knew about Gallipoli then.
Peter D. Condon.
Cover design: The covers of the twelve-volume ‘Official History of Australia at War of 1914-1918,’ edited by Charles Bean, are described as being the colour of ‘dried red blood.’ T he same
‘dried red blood’ colour is used on the cover of this book, along with a lone bright light.
P S.
The introduction tells the story of how and why I produced the book. It is available for sale at lulu.com, but being in colour and using good quality paper, it is too expensive for single purchases. Postage doubles the price. I then converted the story into an eBook, and it too is available for sale at lulu. Finally, I worked out that I would not make one million dollars for my effort so I started giving the eBook away to everyone in my address book; and I have repeated my post-out before Anzac Day for the past four years as an ‘Anzac Refresher’ read. Of course, I tell them that I will be asking them questions about Anzac Day the next time I see them.
Cheers,
Peter C.