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.