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Monash
bio launched
By
Sgt Sybelle Foxcroft
A biography of General Sir John Monash has been launched at the
Australian War Memorial. The book titled Monash – The Outsider
who Won a War details the rise of Gen Sir John Monash, who served
with the Australian Army from 1887 to 1919, and reveals for the
first time his relationships with those who would try to bring him
down.
CDF Gen Peter Cosgrove attended the launch and said that it was
an important record of a remarkable man and Australia’s finest-ever
general.
“The biography of Gen Sir John Monash outlines a marvellous
man who was a technical exponent of warfare and general without
peer in our history,” he said.
“Monash was a man who commanded the Australian Corps in some
of the most important and successful actions in that tumultuous
last year of the war in 1918; in particular stopping the German
offensive at Amiens and breeching the Hindenberg line in the final
100 days of battle.”
Author Roland Perry has published 17 books, several of them international
bestsellers and in a variety of genres.
Mr Perry said Gen Sir John Monash could not be manipulated and was
a key player in getting all Australian Divisions in one Corps on
the western front.
“The amount of hurdles he had to overcome were massive and
to achieve his aims in fighting the Germans is testimony to his
strength of character.”
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