ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how the Australians’ and New Zealanders’ views of their enemy at Gallipoli moved in a positive direction both during and after the war, revealing how the perspectives of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers shifted from the antagonistic to the sympathetic. Despite hostile feelings towards the enemy, designed either to persuade men to invade or to protect a land, such inimical perspectives of the enemy ‘other’ at times yielded to feelings of empathy, appreciation, and compassion over the course of the Gallipoli campaign. Having reached Egypt on the eve of the Dardanelles campaign, the soldiers of the ANZAC were trained there by British Army instructors for a limited amount of time. After the war, Australian veterans began to regard Gallipoli as the campaign that instituted a bond of friendship between the Anzacs and Turks. Many Anzac soldiers had no idea about the realities of war.
