Gallipoli Campaign the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" which consisted of an account from a young Australian soldier who was maimed during the Gallipoli Campaign. The song has been praised for its imagery, evoking the devastation at the Gallipoli landings. It remains widely popular and is considered by some to be the iconic anti-war song. In Turkey, the battle is thought of as a significant event in the state's emergence, although it is primarily remembered for the fighting that took place around the port of Çanakkale, where the Royal Navy was repulsed in March 1915. For the Turks, 18 March has a similar
1915: A Novel of Gallipoli and one that promises much from his next novel nevertheless." McDonald wrote the television script for a seven part series which was broadcast on ABC TV in 1982. 1915: A Novel of Gallipoli 1915: A Novel of Gallipoli is a 1979 historical novel by Roger McDonald. The book is about two friends, Walter and Billy, who join the AIF and go to fight at Gallipoli. The novel follows the story of the two men from their adolescence in the Australian bush to their coming of age on the battlefields of World War I. "Kirkus Reviews" wrote "A standard kit of