Description
Title: The Fall of General Gordon Bennett
Author: Lodge, A B
Condition: Very Good +
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0868618829
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 347 pages
Comments: The biography of Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett CB, CMG, DSO, VD.
This book provides a brilliantly condensed history of Gallipoli, in which heroic and disastrous campaign Gordon Bennett, wounded in action and alipping away from the ship’s hospital at night to rejoin his men, played a conspicuous part. His vivid diaries are extensively quoted in Frank Legg’s biography.
Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett was Australian soldier who served in both World War I and World War II. Despite highly decorated achievements during World War I, including at Gallipoli, Bennett is best remembered for his role in the Fall of Singapore in the Pacific War when, as commander of the 8th Division, he escaped while his men became prisoners of the Japanese.
