Jonathan Passlow graduated into the Royal Australian Artillery from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1994. He served in a variety of regimental and staff appointments before leaving the Regular Army in 2001. He completed his doctoral thesis in 2015, analysing the role of intelligence in the planning and conduct of the AIF’s battles in the First World War. Polygon Wood 1917 is his first book.
Buoyed by the success of the 1st and 2nd Australian divisions in the Battle of Menin Road, the men of the 4th and 5th Australian divisions filed into the front line ready for the next phase of the battle. Ahead of them lay the blackened remnants of Polygon Wood, a desolate expanse...
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