Research Catalog

Title

To hell and back : the banned account of Gallipoli by Sydney Loch includes a biography by Susanna de Vries and Jake de Vires.

Author

Loch, Sydney.

Publication

Pymble, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia : HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• De Vries, Susanna.
• De Vries, Jake.

Description

xvii, 248 p. : ill., maps, ports., facsims.; 24 cm.

Summary

As a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipoli, Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first hand. His journal of what he saw became a book on his return to Australia. Hoping to avoid military censorship, his publishers dubbed Loch's book a novel: The Straits Impregnable.

Subject

• Loch, Sydney
• Australia. Australian Imperial Force > Biography
• 1914-1918
• World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, Australian
• World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Turkey > Gallipoli Peninsula
• Soldiers > Australia > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biography
• War
• War.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue. The early years: portrait with background -- Editor's note -- The Straits Impregnable -- 1. Prelude to war -- 2. In the shadow of the pyramids -- 3. 'If you want peace, prepare for war' -- 4. To the Dardanelles -- 5. The landing at Anzac Cove -- 6. 'Dig, dig, dig, until you are safe' -- 7. The big guns of HMS Queen Elizabeth -- 8. In the Anzac trenches -- 9. Beauty among the carnage -- 10. The 'galloper' without a horse -- 11. The burial of three thousand corpses -- 12. The sinking of HMS Triumph -- 13. Putting on a show for the enemy -- 14. What brave hopes, what courage spent -- Epilogue. 'The Straits Impregnable', its aftermath, and Sydney Loch, the 'Scarlet of Pimpernel' World War II.

ISBN

• 9780732285456 (pbk.)
• 0732285453 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007405616

OCLC

• 155715457
• SCSB-10642710

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library