Mark Baker Mark Baker i(A150974 works by)
Gender: Male
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Mark Baker graduated from RMIT University with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and politics. He has worked as an editor at a range of newspapers including the Canberra Times and the Age. He has also been the Managing Editor (National) for Fairfax Media.

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y separately published work icon Phillip Schuler : The Remarkable Life of One of Australia's Greatest War Correspondents Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2016 9510858 2016 single work biography

'The definitive biography of Phillip Schuler, one of Australia's greatest war correspondents, from Gallipoli to his death in Flanders.

'A bitter-sweet drama of love and war . . . one of the great untold Australian stories brought to life. Les Carlyon

'Phillip Schuler was one of Australia's best and brightest. As a handsome 24-year-old on special assignment for the Melbourne Age he covered the Gallipoli campaign alongside Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Keith Murdoch. His dispatches were evocative and compassionate, and captured the heroism and horror for Australian newspaper readers in way the meticulous yet dry prose of Bean never could. He returned from Gallipoli at the end of 1915 and quickly wrote a classic account of the campaign, Australia in Arms (1916). As the son of Frederick Schuler, editor of the Age and a bastion of the Melbourne establishment, Phillip could have remained an observer of the war, sheltered in the relative safety war correspondent's job. Instead, he chose to be a participant. He joined the AIF as a humble soldier and was sent to France. In June 1917, Schuler was killed near Messines in the Ypres salient. He was 27 years old.

'Schuler's experiences as a correspondent and then as a soldier mirror Australia's involvement in the Great War. From Gallipoli to Flanders, his dispatches, letters and diary entries offer a level of description and intelligence that are both revealing and deeply moving. He was one of the shining lights of the generation that was decimated by the war, and Baker's biography uses his all-too-brief life and death to give us a new and compelling perspective on Australia, the power of journalism and The First World War.' (Publication summary)

2016 longlisted Walkley Award Best Non-Fiction Book
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