Hamilton, John.

The price of valour / Price of valour : the triumph and tragedy of a Gallipoli hero, Hugo Throssell, VC John Hamilton. - Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2012. - xii, 393 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-386) and index.

John Hamilton, bestselling author of Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You and Gallipoli Sniper, has written an extraordinary account of Throssell's life: winner of the Victoria Cross, due to his bravery on Gallipoli; husband to novelist and committed socialist Katharine Susannah Pritchard; and fallen hero, thanks to his public denunciation of the war. The Price of Valour details the battles in Gallipoli and Palestine, and a provides a compassionate and intimate portrait of a real Australian hero.

9781742611235 (pbk.)


Throssell, Hugo, 1884-1933.


Soldiers--Australia--Biography.
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Turkey--Gallipoli Peninsula--Biography.
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Palestine--Biography.

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