Peter Isaacson

Letters to the Editor | May 2008

I do not understand why Don Watson described Sir John Monash as a "German-Jewish general" (May). John Monash was born in Melbourne, educated in Melbourne (Scotch College, University of Melbourne) and lived in Melbourne both before and after World War I. If Watson wanted to identify Monash's nationality and religion, surely a more correct description would be "Australian-Jewish general".

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