Item #112733 Twelve Months with the 'Anzacs'. Eric Francis HANMAN, 'Haystack'.
Twelve Months with the 'Anzacs'

Twelve Months with the 'Anzacs'

Brisbane, Watson, Ferguson & Company, 1918 (second edition)/ 1916.

Octavo, [iv] (last blank), 160 pages plus 4 pages of plates (after drawings by the author).

Two-colour pictorial cloth a little bumped at the extremities; flyleaves offset; edges a little foxed, with scattered foxing elsewhere (but mainly near the plates); an excellent copy with the early ownership signature of May Gasteen.

The second edition has an extra plate. The author, 902 Private Eric Hanman, 15th Battalion, writes in the preface that he 'has not the slightest intention of presenting to the public this little effort as an authentic, or detailed history of the Gallipoli Campaign.... These pages but give the true and unvarnished experiences of a soldier of the rank and file', written to assist the reader 'in a humble manner to realise and understand the life of the trenches'. He landed at Gallipoli on Anzac Day, and left in the main Allied withdrawal in December 1915.

Dornbusch 357; not in Fielding and O'Neill.

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