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The Secrets of Anzac Ridge

Flanders 1917

Author: Patricia Skehan  

The Secrets of Anzac Ridge
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The impact of World War I still ripples through time. In this moving and essential book, historian Patricia Skehan brings to light secret details of Anzac experiences on the Western Front.

In the annals of human history, the stakes are highest in war. And in World War I, what was at stake was the future of the world. Anzac troops, fighting and dying so far from home, were crucial to the result that shaped the twentieth century. Those troops wrote letters and diaries, materials that now form the record for the human face of war.

Patricia Skehan reveals riveting secrets from the diaries of James Armitage, a young Sydney man who enlisted on his eighteenth birthday, as well as the writings of General Sir John Monash, the military mastermind leading the Anzac troops. With permission from both their descendants, their records of the Western Front are combined in this moving portrait of catastrophic events set on Anzac Ridge, in Flanders fields.

Skehan masterfully interweaves the stories of other characters who appear in documents she discovered, including doctors, nurses, gunners and many more.

The Secrets of Anzac Ridge shows us how much humans care for each other even when the world is at its darkest, illuminating the courage and heart of those living in the trenches.

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About the Author

Patricia Skehan is a founding executive member of Concord Heritage, now City of Canada Bay Heritage Society. Trish guest-speaks to Rotary, Probus, VIEW clubs; historical societies, etc., and lectures for U3A. She presented heritage talks on FM radio and has been published nationally. Trish conducts tours at Yaralla and Rivendell estates in Concord West. Since 1999, Trish has travelled across NSW to give over 1,000 heritage talks on 16 different subjects. She travelled to Britain in 2001 and 2005, researching at Cambridge on the Thomas Walker family's royal connections.

In 2013, Ethel Turner's granddaughter asked Trish to transcribe letters from Jean Curlewis to her famous mother, written while a volunteer nursing aide during the 1919 Spanish Flu epidemic. Sourcing rare archives from RPAH, the Red Cross, Sydney University, Trove newspaper collections and museum sources, Trish found clues about Anzac secrets when given the seemingly unrelated diary of a young WW1 soldier.

Trish was guest speaker at the Cenotaph in Sydney on Armistice Day 2020. Her talk on the impact of the Spanish flu epidemic was televised nationally.

Born Armistice Day 1946, Trish is married to a retired Police Sergeant. They now live on the Central Coast.

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Publisher
Hachette Australia
Published
26th March 2025
Pages
336
ISBN
9780733651564

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