Straits Impregnable

Although published as a novel to evade wartime censorship Sydney Lochs Sidney De Loghe was a pen name searing memoir of the Gallipoli campaign carries the note This book, written in Australia, Egypt and Gallipoli, is true. Certainly the prose reads as though the author has been to hell and back, making the book a grim classic of Great War literature Death was the farmer of that tranquil field. Look at the corpses, tumbled in every shape, as still as still could be. mark the green uniforms holding the sunlight, and the dusky faces, hideously misshapen with decay. Mark the swollen bodies. Mark the rotting eye socket. By night and by day shells