Comicoz Award

The Anzac Legend has received an award......

the Comicoz Award for Best Australian Original Comic Book 2014.

Follow this link to read all about it

http://www.comicoz.com/

Arrival in Egypt

One hundred years ago this week the Australians and New Zealanders of the first convoy arrived in Egypt after their long journey by sea.

British and Indian troops already garrisoned the Suez area, so the ANZACs were not required to do that task here. The ANZACs  were supposed to go on to England to train and organise before heading to the fighting in France. However, the allocated accommodation in England had been virtually washed away by torrential downpours, so it was decided to waylay the  force in Egypt until conditions improved in England.  This news was received with bitter disappointment. 

Now in Digital format for download

The Anzac Legend book is now in digital format (36.7 mb pdf) for download. This makes it much cheaper and affordable for people to read.

While I personally like to read a physical book, I understand that newer trends have evolved and some people prefer the digital format. The added bonus of this is that the costs of producing the book are greatly reduced. These costs are not just in printing and distribution to bookshops, but also in postage anywhere in the world that make the book prohibitive to prospective buyers.

Anyone who buys the digital book and wishes to later buy the hard copy version will have the cost of the digital subtracted from the price of the hard copy. That sort of makes the digital version a way of previewing the book before purchasing a paper version.

The price of the digital book is US$9.99, plus $1 Tax. This converted to the current (at time of writing) Australian Dollar is $12.35. Even at twice the price you would be getting great value.

The payments can be made by either credit card or PayPal.

To purchase go to the "Store" at the Wotsleft Books website: wotsleftbooks


or directly click on this link  https://sellfy.com/p/LP4z/ 

14 September 1914 - The AE1 lost at sea

100 years ago the Australian submarine AE1 set out on a patrol from the port of Rabaul, New Britain, on the 14th of September 1914. She was due to return that afternoon but did not show up. At 8pm search vessels were sent out, but no sign was ever found.
Possibly the AE1 suffered the same disastrous mishap that the AE2 was to endure before it was lost in the Sea of Marmara in April 1915.

The AE1 was lost with a compliment of 35 men aboard, including the captain, and was the most severe loss Australia had suffered in the war up to that time.


The AE1's sister ship, the AE2, was to play a major role in the landings at Gallipoli on the 25 April 1915.

To read more detail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_AE1