I wonder if I may be doing Anzac over-kill this centenary year of the Allied disaster at Gallipoli. With another Kiwi documentary of four young soldiers gallantly, if naively, volunteering to save the British Empire in WW One, and then a film about the valiant Kiwis taking and holding the Turkish hill, Chanuk Bair, while their English commanders drank brandy and sent them to their inevitable deaths, it may be just a little too much. Tomorrow will culminate at dawn with a service to remind everyone that this war will never be forgotten. Chunuk Bair, by the way, was the only brief success attack in the whole of the Dardanelles disaster, and attributed totally to the New Zealanders and their staunch fighting capacity
It is not an easy film to come home from, but it is another salutary reminder of the stupidity of war.
Film Archives in War mode
A nice place for a lemon and honey drink
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