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Before the Anzac Dawn: A Military History of Australia to 1915

she has relied heavily on David Stevenson’s one-volume account of the war, Cataclysm. Stevenson’s judgements are balanced and wise, but there are some old stories recycled here which more extensive reading would have scotched. Hitler was not in Berlin, but Vienna, in 1914; most of those Germans killed at Langemarck in 1914 were not students, but reservists; the easterner/westerner debate in British strategy is in many respects a product of the memoirs, not sustained by the archival research of the last thirty years; the planning for the battle of the Somme predated the opening of Verdun, and it was not therefore fought primarily to relieve the French army; the Brusilov offensive, not the Somme, drew Germans to the east and so tipped Verdun in favour of the French; and the figures given for British executions are too low while those for the French are not those for 1917 alone but for the war as a whole. In a book of this quality, these are minor quibbles, and can be easily put right, but they jar given the authoritative quality of the text as a whole.