Gallipoli and the Anzac Legend SIR: It is gratifying that my two articles in Quadrant on Gallipoli and the Anzac legend (June and July-August 2009) should provoke such thoughtful responses as those published in the September issue. However, with respect to Neil James, the Executive Director of the Australia Defence Association, I believe he may not have grasped the principal point that I was making. While I’m sure the writing of mainstream military, naval and air force history in Australia is generally in safe hands, as he insists, that is neither the issue nor what my articles were about. What…