As a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipoli' Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first-hand. On his return to Australia he detailed what he saw in his book' The Straits Impregnable. Hoping to avoid military censorship' his publishers dubbed Sydney's book a novel. But as the war ground on and the numbers of casualties grew' the publisher inserted a note saying the story was factual. The book' which had enjoyed huge literary acclaim'...
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