The Paladin: A Life of Major General Sir John Gellibrand (Australian Army History)

Type

Book

Authors

Peter S. Sadler

ISBN 10

0195513045

ISBN 13

9780195513042

Tags

WWI, World War I, Australia & New Zealand, Oceania, Botany, biography

Description

This is the first biography of Sir John Gellibrand, one of Australia's most celebrated soldiers of World War I. Peter Sadler traces his career from Sandhurst, and the Boer War, to Tasmania and later Gallipolli. The book makes extensive use of Gellibrand's diaries to examine this scholar-soldier's sophisticated literary and intellectual interests.

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