Told from the heart by the Searle brothers' great-nephew, award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins using the letters and journals of the Searle brothers and remembrances of other family members, Crack Hardy is a compelling book that defines Australia and Australians during the making of our nation on the far-flung battlefields of the First World War.
From Gallipoli to Flanders to the Somme, the True Story of Three Australian Brothers at War
Publication Date: 01/04/2011
This is the true story of three of Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came home a decorated hero. One Searle brother, a gifted poet who was planning to be a clergyman before the war, became a deadly efficient sniper. Another shot himself and was charged with desertion. The third was a true Australian larrikin, up for anything, and the black sheep of the family. The Searle boys had to crack hardy, as they fought in one gruelling campaign after another - from the first wave of the Gallipoli landings to Lone Pine, from Ypres to Messines and Hill 60 in Flanders, to bloody Somme battles at Mouquet Farm, Bullecourt, and Hamel, with their brothers and mates falling all around them. Back home in an Australian country town, their mother, father, sisters and remaining brother also had to crack hardy, as the bad news from the front just kept coming, and coming.
Told from the heart by the Searle brothers' great-nephew, award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins using the letters and journals of the Searle brothers and remembrances of other family members, Crack Hardy is a compelling book that defines Australia and Australians during the making of our nation on the far-flung battlefields of the First World War.
Told from the heart by the Searle brothers' great-nephew, award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins using the letters and journals of the Searle brothers and remembrances of other family members, Crack Hardy is a compelling book that defines Australia and Australians during the making of our nation on the far-flung battlefields of the First World War.
- ISBN:
- 9781864710243
- 9781864710243
- Category:
- True war & combat stories
- Publication Date:
- 01-04-2011
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Random House Australia
- Country of origin:
- Australia
- Pages:
- 381
- Dimensions (mm):
- 233x155x29mm
- Weight:
- 0.46kg
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