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A first-person memoir traces a soldier’s journey from recruiting work and enlistment in Australia through amphibious assaults, the Gallipoli campaign, and later fighting on the Somme. Chapters blend vivid front-line episodes—landings, trench warfare, raids, sapper work, spotting and close-quarters actions—with quieter interludes of recovery, honors received, and reflections on comradeship, fear and endurance. The narrative records practical tactics and soldierly ritual, the psychological strain of long campaigns, encounters with espionage and night dangers, and the cost of battle on body and spirit, concluding with convalescence and the personal reckonings that follow sustained combat.

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Title: The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme)

Author: David Fallon

Release date: July 12, 2015 [eBook #49421]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BIG FIGHT (GALLIPOLI TO THE SOMME) ***

THE BIG FIGHT

Captain David Fallon, M.C.

THE BIG FIGHT

(Gallipoli to the Somme)

BY
Capt. DAVID FALLON, M.C.

New York
W. J. Watt & Company
PUBLISHERS


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