Game to the Last reveals the story of the men who would become "one of the finest battalions which served in the war", the West Australian 11th Infantry Battalion, AIF, during the gruelling Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.

The narrative follows the battalion members as they leave their homes and lives in Western Australia, embark for overseas, experience the excitement and boredom of arid and exotic Egypt, and undergo their baptism of fire in the first wave of the Australian and New Zealand landings at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.


Game to the Last casts its net wide to find and tell these men's stories and is the culmination of many years' research.


Author James Hurst has visited the men's training grounds and battlefields, homes and graves.


Many previously unpublished personal accounts provide the heart of the narrative, while extensive research provides context and colour.


This is a story about real Western Australian men - sons, brothers, husbands - who became soldiers in a bloody war on foreign soil. Their experiences are documented and retold with admiration and respect, and remind the reader of the human face of war.