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The burdens of war.(History)
LES CARLYON'S new book, The Great War, commands our praise and gratitude. It engenders also a certain wonder that a lone author-voyager could navigate successfully such a vast ocean of archives, histories (official and unofficial), biographies and autobiographies, newspapers, diaries and private letters; a tide like that might have seen many a scholar still at sea for half a lifetime. That is part of the story: the other is Carlyon's patient footslogging over the old battlefields of France and Belgium. Some of the mud that tormented our soldiers from 1916 to 1918 has stuck also to the boots of Les Carlyon.
His earlier (and outstanding) Gallipoli was in part the ...
- Les Carlyon, Gallipoli.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Pearson, Ross December 1, 2002 700+ words
Les Carlyon, Gallipoli, Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney 2001,600 pp; ISBN 0 73291 089 7. Many accounts have been written of the role...
- A magic pudding of a book.(Gallipoli)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Ryan, Peter September 1, 2001 700+ words
Gallipoli, by Les Carlyon; Macmillan, 2001, $45...in this magnificent book Les Carlyon has made himself its historian...his own boss, the bully War Minister Kitchener, whose...secretary to the British war cabinet, who "crept up...
- The foot-soldiers of history.(Ryan)(Viewpoint essay)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Ryan, Peter March 1, 2007 700+ words
...After re-reading Les Carlyon's splendid new book The Great War, it was plain that I...participation in the two world wars. In neither case was...Charles Bean (First World War) and Gavin Long (Second World War) were journalists. Both...
- Inventing Anzac--the Digger and National Mythology.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Sabretache Trungove, John March 1, 2005 700+ words
...Australia's remarkable official war historian, C W Bean. The "Digger...Imperial celebrations. With the War fought abroad, there were no local...Remembrance Day oration at the Australian War Memorial, Les Carlyon recalled the mythological aspects...
- Reconsidering Gallipoli.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Crotty, Martin March 1, 2006 700+ words
...Gallipoli during and after the war, in correspondents' reports...from much of the rest of the war, especially the Western Front...Gammage, Robert Rhodes James and Les Carlyon, have been more critical but...underlie what is an important war legend in Britain, and a foundational...
- Delightful self-portrait from a living training legend; Bart - My Life By JB...
- Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England) December 10, 2009 700+ words
...results for each of his 12 Melbourne Cup winners. "Just about everyone in Australia knows who he is," suggests Aussie writer Les Carlyon in his foreword. "The bloke in the navy doublebreaster who is trying to pretend he has turned up only because he had nothing...
- 'Il Principe's final victory was very moving'.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England) October 25, 2009 700+ words
...travel on the railway that runs the width of Australia from Perth to Sydney. Who'd be your four ideal dinner party guests? Les Carlyon, Lawrence Wadey, Peter Temple, Graeme Connors (plus guitar). What's the worst thing anyone's said to you? I'm...
- War has a relentless and indelible pattern.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Tammeus, Bill February 25, 2003 700+ words
...Alliance. The Russo-Turkish War. The Ottoman Wars. The Danish-Swedish War...Cossack War. The Polish-Swedish War. The Wars of the Fronde, or French Civil...Austrian Succession. The Punic Wars. "It (war) is all hell ... I look upon...
Source: HighBeam Research, The burdens of war.(History)