Summary
The dark clouds returned and gathered about the boy. His eyes grew distant, and he began to tremble. He heard not only shells exploding, but the cries of dying men … He was stumbling over churned earth, looking into the face of an officer, bloodied red as the poppies, ripped apart in the Flanders mud …
A small boy, an orphan of the First World War, wanders into the Australian airmen’s mess in Germany, on Christmas Day in 1918. A strange boy, with an uncertain past and an extraordinary…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780670079292 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0670079294 |
| Author: | Anthony Hill |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Viking Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 434g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 152mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Anthony Hill
Anthony Hill is a multi-award-winning, bestselling author. His novel Soldier Boy, about Australia’s youngest known Anzac, was winner of the 2002 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Books for Young Adults. More recently, his children’s book, Captain Cook’s Apprentice, won the 2009 NSW Premier’s Young People’s History Prize.
Soldier Boy, Young Digger, Animal Heroes and For Love as Country follow as further testimony to his remarkable ability to extensively research historical material and, from wide-ranging sources, piece together a moving and exciting story.
He is also the author of two novellas, the beautiful Shadow Dog, and the award-winning The Burnt Stick, illustrated by Mark Sofilas, as well as the picture book, Lucy’s Cat and the Rainbow Birds, illustrated by Jane Tanner.
After 40 years living in Canberra, Anthony and his wife, Gillian, have moved to the Mornington Peninsula. Their daughter, son-in-law and grand-daughter, Emily, live in Melbourne.
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