My Father’s Son by Ric Throssell
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My Father’s Son by Ric Throssell

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SKU TBM9781863300285
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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781863300285
Author: Ric Throssell
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Mandarin Australia
Place: Port Melbourne VIC
Year: 1990
Format: Paperback
Pages: 414 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside front cover and has redacted their name with a pen that has partially bled through to the front cover. Spine is slightly skewed.

For forty years, Ric Throssell fought to build a career in the Department of Foreign Affairs, battling suspicion and hidden prejudice. He was the son of Gallipoli Victoria Cross winner Hugo Throssell and Katherine Susannah Prichard, writer and pioneer Australian communist.

His early life was overshadowed by his father’s suicide in the face of mounting debts and in the hope of getting a widow’s pension for his wife and son, and by his mother’s faith in her cause.

Only when his challenging career had ended, however, did he learn that he had another self, a secret person as portrayed by the watchers and listeners of the Australian security services… (back cover)

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