Forged by War
Australians in Combat and Back Home
$76.32
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2006
Summary
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 peace…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522851717 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522851711 |
| Author: | Gina Lennox |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 333g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 152mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Gina Lennox
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)
- People of the Cross, People who live and work in Kings Cross (1993)
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