Gallipoli

by Hugh Dolan

The Gallipoli legend that we know is not our own. Somehow, we have stolen the British experience of a dawn slaughter on a beach further south, under Turkish guns. The Australian landing on Z Beach, our allotted coast, was tactically brilliant. ANZAC officers planned their own amphibious assault without the interference of British officers, who were content to row ashore in daylight against a prepared enemy. Z Beach True Comics presents the facts. Gallipoli: the landing is a non-fiction account of how ANZAC officers used all available intelligence to plan a surprise night assault using stealth on ANZAC Cove. This graphic narrative follows the roles of espionage, spying, and the use of aerial reconnaissance which provided ANZAC officers with the military intelligence to plan an effective assault despite a heavily defended coast. --

120 pages, Paperback

Published March 26, 2012

About the author

Hugh Dolan is a Squadron Leader in the Australian Air Force, a life that he enjoys and recommends to others. He is currently researching the air battles over Gallipoli at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He has worked in minor headquarters roles in Australia and overseas. He describes his military service to be within range of map tables and the coffee percolator. His military career started 15 years ago with enlistment in the British Army as a private. He served in Bosnia as a junior NCO and witnessed the importance of military intelligence in operation planning. He confesses that he initially joined the army after barely graduating with a masters degree in history from Oxford University to pay overdue bills and to see how history is written.