Ross McMullin – ‘Turning Disaster into Victory: The Battle of Polygon Wood’

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The battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917 is one of the AIF’s most iconic but least understood victories. It has usually been depicted as a relatively straightforward affair — the Australians advanced behind an irresistible barrage that resembled a Gippsland bushfire, and there were inevitable casualties but no major hiccups. This interpretation is fundamentally
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