Blamey: The Biography of Field-Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey by John Hetherington

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Slight skew to spine. Sunning to top foredge. Dust jacket has small tears to top edge and spine. Dust jacket is now in protective cover. Interior and binding are also very good.

This is the long-awaited, full, frank, and uncensored story of the man who was possibly the greatest soldier Australia has bred; he was, without doubt, the most controversial.

John Hetherington, a writer and journalist of world renown, has neither concealed Blamey's defects nor exaggerated his qualities of greatness. Thus, his book is a living portrait of a soldier of uncommon gifts and a man of infinite complexity; an intricate combination of simplicity and sophistication, of kindness and ruthlessness, of frailty and strength.

This book is more than just the life of one man. It brings to life Blamey's campaigns in the Middle East and New Guinea, in which hundreds of thousands of Australians participated. (book flap)