Forged By War: Australians in Combat and Back Home

Lennox, Gina

ISBN 10: 0522851711 / ISBN 13: 9780522851717

Edité par Melbourne University Press, Carlton, VIC, Australia, 2005

A propos de cet article

Large softcover, first edition, 526gms, 326 pages. In this book, Australian veterans and their families discuss the experience of war and how it has changed their lives. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration/spotting throughout. Wraps show some light creasing and there is a small pen marking from a previous owner on the inside front page. Book shows remainder mark to bottom of page edges, otherwise no other pre-loved markings.

N° de réf. du vendeur WAR1604

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Forged By War: Australians in Combat and Back Home
• Éditeur: Melbourne University Press, Carlton, VIC, Australia
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0522851711
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780522851717
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Not Applicable
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • War/Military

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Synopsis

In Forged By War, Australian veterans and their families reveal the experience of combat and how it has changed their lives. These stark first-hand accounts describe the reality of military action and its personal consequences in every major conflict and peacemaking mission since World War II, including the invasion of Iraq.
Sometimes the reader is in lockstep with a soldier on patrol, watching as a land mine explodes, or a local militiaman points an AK-47 at Australian peacemakers. Other times, the reader is inside a returned veteran's head, feeling their superfluous adrenalin, their need to control their environment, even at home.
With accounts from Peter and Lynne Cosgrove, Graham Edwards, Frank Hunt (I Was Only Nineteen), other veterans of Vietnam, Glenda Humes (daughter of Capt Reginald Saunders), peacemakers and an SAS trooper, this compelling investigation by Gina Lennox in underpinned by the question: where does family fit in a soldier's life?

À propos de l?auteur

Gina Lennox is a Sydney writer, filmmaker and radio producer who has travelled and lived in the Middle East and Africa. She is author of four books: Fire, Snow & Honey: Voices from Kurdistan (short-listed for the NSW Premier General History Award 2002); In Search of Heroes: Stories of Seven Remarkable Men (1998); Struck By Lightning: the Life of Garry Lynch, Father of Anita Cobby, (1996), and People of the Cross, People who live and work in Kings Cross (1993).