The Australians ; their Final Campaign, 1918. By F. M.
Cutlack. (Sampson Low. 10s. 8d. net.)—The Australian Corps surpassed themselves last spring when they were hastily moved from Flanders to the Somme to check the enemy's advance. They stopped and flung back the Germans with exceptionally heavy losses at Dernancourt and Tillers Bretonneux, and then worried the enemy by a series of local offensives which cost him dear. When the great advance began, it fell to the Australians to take the key-position of Mont St. Quentin above Peronne. and at a later stage it was they who broke through the centre of the Hindenburg Line on the St. Quentin Canal. Mr. Cutlack has described these most important operations in considerable detail, with the help of some large-scale maps. Much of his story is new to us, for Mr. Cutlack, as an official correspondent attached to the Australians, had special opportunities of watch: ing their operations. His spirited narrative indeed clears up some of the obscurity that still enshrouds the last days of the retreat to the Somme.
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