Come On Australia

Lewis Frederickson serves in the Royal Australian Air Force and is a military-qualified Aviation Instructor. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in History, Literature, and Education, completing his PhD on Australia’s Great War experience at UNSW Canberra in 2015. A Visiting Fellow at UNSW, he has lectured in history, strategy, and politics and previously deployed to the Middle East. His grandfather served under McSharry in the 15th Battalion, making this book a personal tribute. His first book, Armageddon and Okra (2020), examined Australian air power in the Middle East. His second, After Anzac, based on his doctoral research, will be published by Cambridge University Press. Lewis lives in Canberra with his family and is currently studying philosophy at Oxford.

Victor Nurcombe is a retired medical researcher with Higher Doctorates in Medicine and Biochemistry, and a PhD in Developmental Neurophysiology. He trained across leading global institutions and held professorial roles at major universities in Australia and Singapore. With over 160 peer-reviewed publications and 200 patent filings, Victor also holds an MBA and Diploma in Contract Law. In 2020, he earned an MA in Military History at the University of Birmingham. His grandfather was wounded in 1918 while serving in the 15th Battalion under McSharry—fuelling Victor’s decades-long passion for battlefield research. Now based in Brisbane, he writes military history and travels widely. This is his first military book.