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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The battlefield has shaped the way we define ourselves – the Australian values of mateship courage under fire larrikinism but few of us have witnessed these scenes firsthand. Soldiers writing from the front and journalists on the ground have formed the way we think about war and so formed the way we think about ourselves. In The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing author and journalist Mark Dapin has gathered together the finest of these accounts. Starting with Watkin Tench’s observations of an Aboriginal war party we see the terror confusion and occasional heroics of the front line through the eyes of some of our best writers including AB Paterson Martin Boyd Patrick White Alan Moorehead Kenneth Slessor Peter Cundall and Barry Heard. (SP)