The edited diaries of Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, the official press correspondent with the Australian Imperial Force. Bean begain his diary on leaving Melbourne and kept the diary in Egypt and throughout his time at Anzac Cove having landed at Gallipoli on the first morning of the campaign and leaving shortly before the last of the troops were evacuated. The diaries, written each evening, are a key source for understanding the campaign recording Bean's personal observations, interviews with soldiers and visits to the front and describing both daily life and battle. The text is illustrated with some of Bean's own photographs.