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...launched the Anzac legend. Now, in The Great War (Macmillan; 860 pages), he looks at the Australians on the western front, the 750-km line of trenches that snaked through France and Belgium. In the national memory of the war, Gallipoli is the big event. Places like Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont Saint Quentin are "hardly spoken of," Carlyon writes. Yet they should be bywords for valor?and tragedy. Most of the 324,000 volunteers who sailed off to the war, and many who survived Gallipoli, served in the cold and mud of Flanders and the Somme. There "they did things Australians...
...domination by machines?artillery, bombs, tanks, planes, machine guns?only underscored the humanity of the combatants. For Carlyon the war was "the biggest tragedy in our history." But those who took part did "astonishing things," he writes?like the capture of the heavily defended fortress of Mont St. Quentin by a few hundred Diggers. What Carlyon writes of them could stand for all the Australians on the western front: "The spirit of these men was extraordinary." And his book is a hymn...
...TENN. $4,974 ?S.D. $4,940 ?PA. $9,041 ?ORE. $5,576 ?OKLA. $4,246 ?OHIO $9,357 ?N.D. $5,509 ?N.Y. $5,046 ?N.M. $3,985 ?NEV. $3,651 ?NEB. $5,224 ?MONT. $5,255 ?MO. $6,531 ?MISS. $4,455 ?MINN. $7,495 ?MICH. $7,661 ?LA. $3,796 ?KY. $5,758 ?KANS. $5,149 ?IOWA $5,900 ?IND. $6,555 ?ILL. $8,133 ?IDAHO $4,159 ?HAWAII...
Billings, Mont...
...days off from the campaign to seed his 1,800-acre farm in the eastern Montana flatlands. "Look, I do the things real people do. I plow, I seed, I harvest. I do some of my best thinking on my tractor," Tester told me as he campaigned in Whitefish, Mont., last week...