![]() In that essay, Moorehead, who had been sceptical about the “whole elaborate Anzac legend’’, described his conversion. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Australia marks the Gallipoli Centenary in 2015, it is worth recalling Moorehead re-awakened interest in the Gallipoli story with publication of his book, Gallipoli (1956), and before that his account in New Yorker magazine of a visit to the Dardanelles that appeared in its April, 1955 edition. He melded the role of reporter, war correspondent, eyewitness to history and literary historian in a remarkable career cut short by a stroke in 1966 that robbed him of his ability to communicate.īut before that happened Melbourne-born and educated Moorehead had created a body of work that ensured his reputation as an Australian author of the front rank, and someone of unusual cultural significance. ![]() Alan McCrae Moorehead was the outstanding Australian writer-journalist of his generation. ![]()
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