For Love of Country: A True Australian Family Story of Love, War and the Ultimate Sacrifice by Anthony Hill

For Love of Country: A True Australian Family Story of Love, War and the Ultimate Sacrifice by Anthony Hill

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780143799962
Author: Anthony Hill
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Penguin Australia
Place: Southbank VIC
Year: 2016
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are excellent.

Anthony Hill expertly weaves military history and gripping accounts of frontline fighting into this intimate portrait of a family who sacrificed everything for their country showing how the global conflicts of the twentieth century came home to Australia with tragic consequences.

'His heart was in the land, and he thought of nothing else.' At the close of the First World War and after surviving a gas attack on the Western Front, Captain Walter Eddison moved his family from war-ravaged Britain to start a new life in Australia.

The Eddisons were offered 'land fit for heroes' under the Australian government's soldier-settlement scheme. Still, the grim realities of life in the remote bush were not easy for a family used to the green pastures of England. Walter and Marion made the best of their limited prospects. Still, as they raised their young family on the outskirts of the nation's newly established capital, tensions were again simmering in Europe.

When the Second World War broke out, they were forced to confront their worst fears as their three sons headed back to the battlefields they'd tried so hard to leave behind. (back cover)

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