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Podcast: The Thinking Traveller
Episode: ANZAC POW's - The Real Story
Description: Very little was known about the fate of the small number of Anzac's taken prisoner during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 until Dr Jennifer Lawless uncovered their story.Undertaking a ten year study for her PHD, Jennifer trekked over 8,000kms across Turkey to locate Australian Prisoner of War camps. She also poured over Turkish manuscripts, which had never been translated into English before, and in the process found a vast divergence from the then accepted version of their internment by Ottoman Turkey. She channeled her research into a book called Kismet, an account of the experiences of 67 Australian...