A Lemnos Odyssey
From Jason and the Argonauts to the Anzacs at Gallipoli
The story of the Greek island of Lemnos
Συγγραφείς: Hawthorn Roger, Dr. Whitefield Tony
Έκδοση: Australian Scholarly Publishing, Kew Victoria Φεβρουάριος 2016
Γλώσσα: Αγγλική
Αριθμός σελίδων: 195
ISBN: 9781925333312
Περιγραφή:
Who, when in light the final dawn is breaking, still faithfull, though the world’s regard shall cease, with honour, splendid in triumphant waking, the souls of women, lonely here at peace.
– Nurse Vera Britain, May 11, 1917
Written after visiting the graves on Lemnos of the Canadian nurses Sister Munro and Matron Jaggard, who died in service on Lemnos caring for the sick and wounded from Gallipoli.
The King of the ancient Gods, Zeus, instructed Hephaestus, the Patron God of Lemnos, to fashion a woman from clay. This first woman was named Pandora, and when on opening her jewellery box she unleashed 10,000 woes on men, only hope was left behind.
– from Hesiod
A well illustrated history of this beautiful Greek Island with substantial information about the role of Lemnos in the Gallipoli campaign of World War One.
