In Search of Keith Murdoch

AUSTRALIAN MILITARY Biography –

First Edition.

• 130p., [4]p. col.plates : ill., ports. ; 27cm. #210525

• • Murdoch, Keith Arthur, Sir, 1885-1952
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  • A letter from Australian journalist Keith Murdoch played a key role in ending the Gallipoli campaign.

    In his 25-page letter to Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, Australian journalist Keith Murdoch described the Gallipoli campaign as ‘undoubtedly one of the most terrible chapters in our history’. Murdoch’s conversational yet brutally honest letter played a key role in ending the Gallipoli campaign and in the evacuation of British and ANZAC troops from the peninsula.