Beersheba: a journey through Australia's forgotten war

摘要

The sub-title is quite accurate, as this is Paul Daley's journey through the locations of the 'forgotten war' by the Australian Light Horse from 1915-18-'forgotten' in the sense that the overwhelming recent emphasis has been on Gallipoli and the Western Front. Today's organised, ever-growing gatherings at sites and tours of battlefields tend to ignore the Light Horse's activities in Egypt and Palestine, although that might partly be due to the security situation in those countries.