The price of valour / John Hamilton.
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TextPublication details: Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2012Description: xii, 393 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781742611235 (pbk.)Other title: Price of valour : the triumph and tragedy of a Gallipoli hero, Hugo Throssell, VCSubject(s): Throssell, Hugo, 1884-1933 | Soldiers -- Australia -- Biography | World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Biography | World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Palestine -- BiographyDDC classification: 940.426092 Summary: 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.
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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.
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