From the Australian Front

From the Australian Front pulls no punches. This is the raw, unvarnished voice of the Anzacs, written from the mud-soaked trenches where Australian boys became soldiers. The author, writing from the heart of the fighting at Pozières and Messines, documents what it actually felt like to wait for the whistle that sent men over the top, to joke through shell shock, to miss home so badly it physically hurt. The photographs scattered throughout these pages anchor the words in terrible reality: these are real men, real faces, real mates who went through hell together. There's dark humor here, the kind soldiers use to survive, but also a deep and aching love for the country they're fighting to protect. It was written so those waiting in Australia could finally understand what their brothers and fathers and sons wouldn't or couldn't tell them. A century later, it remains an invaluable window into one of the most punishing campaigns in military history.