Australia at War by Will Dyson is an account of Australia's involvement in World War I at the Battle of Somme and the Battle of Ypres. Excerpt: "'Mââ' was very liberal to them with Hurley's whiskeyâand they needed it. This sort of need for a drink is something that bears no relationship to anything you and I could ever know in a nicely regulated civilian life. It is of a world which the temperance die-hard has never envisaged, and in which the drink does nothing more criminal than making man more stoicalâŚ"