The Straits Impregnable PDF Download

Author: SYDNEY DE. LOGHE
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ISBN: 9781847020123
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Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Book Description
Sydney De Loghe was the pen name used by Australian Sydney Loch when he published this fictionalised autobiography. He had served in the First A.I.F. in the Gallipoli Campaign and the original manuscript was written as an account of this service but by the time it was completed Loch had returned wounded and sick to Australia and was still in active service. With wartime censorship in effect in Australia, his publisher Henry Champion advised that it should be edited and published as a novel, with names changed to disguise the true identity of the characters, in order to pass the censor. This was done and the first edition of 2,000 copies which appeared in 1916 was well received and quickly sold out. A second edition was published shortly after, but this time bore the inscription 'This Book, Written in Australia, Egypt and Gallipoli, is true'. This did not escape the censor's notice and on finding the book was in fact a true account, not a work of fiction, the book was banned and all copies of the second edition pulped. In 1917 other editions appeared outside Australia, and it is reprinted here from the John Murray English edition. The book is notable for its graphic portrayal of conditions in Gallipoli and their effects on the servicemen involved in the campaign.