Les Carlyon's Gallipoli is one of the most successful, and critically acclaimed, works of Australian non-fiction published in the last decade. Carlyon's book brilliantly captures the tragedy of the Gallipoli campaign, and grippingly tells the story of what was to become Australia's national myth. It is the product of meticulous scholarship and research, it is writing of the highest quality, but above all it is a work of extraordinary storytelling that has the reader gripped from the very first page until the last. Gallipoli is the definitive history for a whole new generation of readers.