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Ordinary Heroes

Ordinary Heroes

Personal Recollections of Australians at War

by Barry Dickins
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/11/1999

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Ordinary Heroes is a year on the road in search of war lives, war memories that have more to do with candour than courage, which isn't to say that those interviewed here weren't courageous. Ordinary Heroes is uniquely Australian, as enigmatic as an old couple whispering and laughing on a suburban back porch, or a veteran of Flanders remembering atrocities, barbarities, slaughter and eventual evacuation over morning tea in some nursing home. Roy Longmore, one of the last WWI veterans, talks with a glint in his eye about returning home from Gallipoli to the haven of his father's colourful orchids. Bill Toon describes being shipped out to Australia from England as a small child to grow up with his dad in the coal fields, and recalls his time as a Japanese POW. Christina McMahon, a nurse in Vietnam ponders: 'You've got to be strong. But how does one share the agony and the suffering of a person who is dying with out showing human feeling?'
ISBN:
9781864981032
9781864981032
Category:
History
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-11-1999
Publisher:
Hardie Grant Books
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
200x130x23mm
Weight:
0.29kg
Barry Dickins

Barry Dickins wrote the stage play ‘Remember Ronald Ryan’ for The Playbox Theatre Company, which in 1995 won The Louis Esson Prize For Drama at the Victorian Premier’s Awards, as well as The Amnesty Prize For Peace Through Art.

Here the story is told for the first time as prose.

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