Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's Lost Generation by Ross McMullin

Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's Lost Generation by Ross McMullin

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781921844669
Author: Ross McMullin
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2012
Format: Paperback
Pages: 600 pages
Period: 19th and 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still very good.

For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have tended to focus primarily on the numbing numbers of losses - on the sheer quantity of all those countrymen who did not return. That there must have been extraordinary individuals among them has been implicitly understood, but these exceptional Australians are unknown today.

This book seeks to retrieve their stories and to fill the gaps in our collective memory. Farewell, Dear People contains ten extended biographies of young men who exemplified Australia's gifted lost generation of World War I.

Among them are accounts of an internationally acclaimed medical researcher, a military officer described by his brigadier as potentially an Australian Kitchener, a rugby international who became an esteemed administrator and a rising Labor star, an engineer who excelled on Mawson's Antarctic mission, a visionary vigneron and community leader who was renowned for successful winemaking at an unusually young age, a Western Australian Rhodes scholar assured of a shining future in the law and/or politics, a Tasmanian footballer who dazzled at the highest level, and a budding architect from Melbourne's best-known creative dynasty who combined an endearing personality with his family's flair for writing and drawing. (back cover)

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