Phillip Schuler : the remarkable life of one of Australia's greatest war correspondents

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Phillip Schuler : the remarkable life of one of Australia's greatest war correspondents

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the remarkable life of one of Australia's greatest war correspondents

Statement of responsibility

Mark Baker

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Phillip Schuler

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the remarkable life of one of Australias greatest war correspondents

Creator

• trueBaker, Mark

Author

• trueBaker, Mark

Subject

• trueAustralian
• trueMilitary campaigns
• Schuler, Phillip F. E
• trueSoldiers -- Australia -- Biography
• trueWar correspondents
• Australia, Army | Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921) -- History
• trueWorld War I
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey | Gallipoli Peninsula -- Participation, Australian
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Journalists -- Biography
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian
• War correspondents -- Australia -- Biography
• Australia, Army | Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- History

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

Phillip Schuler, a handsome young journalist from the Melbourne Age, covered the Gallipoli campaign alongside Charles Bean. His bravery was legendary. His dispatches were evocative and compassionate. He captured the heroism and horror for Australian newspaper readers in ways the meticulous yet dry prose of Bean never could. Gallipoli would also propel Schuler on a collision course with his former friend and Age colleague Keith Murdoch, who made his name lobbying against the campaign after a brief visit to Anzac. After his classic account of the campaign, Australia in Arms, was completed in early 1916, Schuler abandoned the relative safety of a correspondent's job and joined the AIF as a humble soldier. In June 1917, he was killed in Flanders. He was 27 years old. Mark Baker's meticulously researched account of Schuler's brief but extraordinary life gives us a true insight into the man. As a correspondent, a lover and a soldier, Schuler left an indelible mark on all who encountered him. He was a shining light of the generation decimated by the war. Baker's biography gives us a new and compelling perspective on the power of journalism and Australia at war

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

ANL

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult