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The August Offensive was the last attempt by the Allied forces to break the stalemate with the Turkish defenders that had developed since the Anzac landings in late April 1915. It resulted in some of the bloodiest battles on the Gallipoli peninsula – which included the battles for Leane’s Trench, Lone Pine, The Nek, Chunuk Bair, Hill Q and Hill 971. Drawing from letters, diaries and official reports from both Commonwealth and Turkish sources, David Cameron recreates in compelling detail the five days of the August offensive. He describes the complexity behind the battles and how they affected the men who were directly involved. Both visceral and poignant, it is the first book since Bean’s Official History Volume II (1924) to describe in detail a failed offensive in which bodies were shattered and lives senselessly lost.

David Cameron is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anatomy and Histology at the University of Sydney and an Associate Member of the Centre for Archaeological Research at the ANU in Canberra. David is recognised as a world authority on hominid evolution, with his area of specialisation being the evolution of hominid facial morphologies through time. He has worked extensively on hominid fossils, as well as fossil surveys and excavations, in many countries, including Hungary, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, India, and Vietnam.