War correspondent Peter Greste sets out to find the real man behind John Monash, the Australian general credited with pioneering combined-arms tactics that helped break the stalemate of the Western Front. Greste traces Monash's path from a Melbourne engineer with no formal military pedigree to commander of the Australian Corps, visiting battlefield sites and archives to understand how an outsider rose to lead troops the British high command had underestimated. Interviews with historians unpack the Battle of Hamel, often cited as a template for modern warfare, where Monash coordinated tanks, aircraft, and infantry with a precision rare for 1918. The film also weighs Monash's civilian legacy in Australia, from engineering projects to his fight against anti-Semitism within the ranks, against the myth-making that followed his death. Greste treats the reputation as a real historical question rather than a foregone conclusion, asking how much of Monash's fame rests on genuine tactical innovation and how much on the story Australia needed to tell about itself after the war.