Odyssey of the Unknown ANZAC by David Hastings

Odyssey of the Unknown ANZAC by David Hastings

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SKU TBM9781925523539
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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781925523539
Author: David Hastings
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Place: Clayton VIC
Year: 2018
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208 pages

Book Description

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

In 1928, the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia produced 10000 copies of a poster asking for help identifying a patient believed to be a returned soldier now in Sydney’s Callan Park Mental Hospital. The response of members of the public, hoping that this might be their lost father, brother, or son, was overwhelming.

Miraculously, the family of this unknown Anzac was located in Taranaki, New Zealand. The resulting happy blaze of newspaper and radio attention conveyed obliquely the continuing existence of widespread unresolved grief as the final fate and resting place of a third of these nations’ war dead were unknown. And this man, now being taken home by his mother and sister, was no longer the healthy youngster who had sailed to Gallipoli over a decade before.

The story of what happened to George McQuay, of what he suffered and how he survived, speaks of the dehumanising effects of war with unique power. (back cover)

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