Birdie: More Than 'Soul of Anzac'

Field Marshal Lord Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes 1865–1951

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Postscript summary

William Riddell Birdwood is best remembered for his successful evacuation of Australian and New Zealand troops from Gallipoli but, as this first biography makes clear, he achieved a great deal more in his long life. Using Birdwood’s own diaries it follows his birth in India to an old Devon family, service under Kitchener in South Africa, leadership at the Somme and Passchendaele, and later years as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

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