My History novel Brothers Part One: Gallipoli 1915 - 1 views

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  #1 John Tognolini on 06 May 14

   

  I've used the fiction style of a novel to convey the all-too-real historical events, conditions and characters in war, whether it be:
  
  the savage nature of the fighting and the major battles;
  that some senior Australian officers were just as good as their British counterparts at causing the slaughter of their own soldiers in futile charges against machine guns;
  that what little drinking water there was at Anzac Cove tasted of petrol from the cans it was carried in;
  that dysentery ran rampant, and that it and other illnesses took 1000 soldiers off the peninsula each week;
  that some of the Anzacs were of German, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, West Indian and Italian decent, some were Aboriginal and others were just mere boys;
  that some played two-up with two-headed coins and ran bets on what hymns or psalms would be used on church parades.
  
  In this story I have attempted to show the horror of war for what it is. It has been my intent to show the hardship and suffering endured at Gallipoli. I had two uncles there, Stephen Tognolini, Military Medal and Bar, 21st Battalion and Andrew Tognolini, 24th Battalion. They would be joined by their two other brothers John/Jack Tognolini, 57thBattalion Military Medal and Henry/Harry Phillips 60th Battalion on the Western Front in France and Belgium.
  
  John/Jack Tognolini was killed in action on 25thApril 1918 at the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux in France. The army had his age as 24 years old. As he was born in 1900 he was either 16 or 17.
  
  I will be writing three future volumes to Brothers dealing with the Western Front in the years 1916, 1917 and 1918.
  
  John Tognolini.
  
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  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I've used the fiction style of a novel to convey the all-too-real historical events, conditions and characters in war, whether it be: <br /> <br /> the savage nature of the fighting and the major battles; <br /> that some senior Australian officers were just as good as their British counterparts at causing the slaughter of their own soldiers in futile charges against machine guns; <br /> that what little drinking water there was at Anzac Cove tasted of petrol from the cans it was carried in; <br /> that dysentery ran rampant, and that it and other illnesses took 1000 soldiers off the peninsula each week; <br /> that some of the Anzacs were of German, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, West Indian and Italian decent, some were Aboriginal and others were just mere boys; <br /> that some played two-up with two-headed coins and ran bets on what hymns or psalms would be used on church parades. <br /> <br /> In this story I have attempted to show the horror of war for what it is. It has been my intent to show the hardship and suffering endured at Gallipoli. I had two uncles there, Stephen Tognolini, Military Medal and Bar, 21st Battalion and Andrew Tognolini, 24th Battalion. They would be joined by their two other brothers John/Jack Tognolini, 57thBattalion Military Medal and Henry/Harry Phillips 60th Battalion on the Western Front in France and Belgium. <br /> <br /> John/Jack Tognolini was killed in action on 25thApril 1918 at the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux in France. The army had his age as 24 years old. As he was born in 1900 he was either 16 or 17. <br /> <br /> I will be writing three future volumes to Brothers dealing with the Western Front in the years 1916, 1917 and 1918. <br /> <br /> John Tognolini. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.writersandebooks.com/bookshop/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=41&products_id=92&osCsid=i90ov06aad458uoh5ja7hi1pv6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.writersandebooks.com/bookshop/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=41&products_id=92&osCsid=i90ov06aad458uoh5ja7hi1pv6</a></div>

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