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Hardback large wide octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, maps, minor edgewear jacket (light foxing reverse side), light foxing endpapers & title page & edges, two small marks front board. 362 pp. This book is a rich collection of Australian war stories, selected and introduced by Carl Harrison-Ford. The main names are: Banjo Paterson, C. E. W. Bean, Albert Facey, Breaker Morant, Martin Boyd, Frank Dalby Davison, David Campbell, Osmar White and George Johnston. There are many unknowns - Boson, Xav, Aileron, or simply Anon - who created equally vivid pictures of war, or life at war. The styles change through the five wars covered, (Boer, World War 1 and 2, Korean and Vietnam). The book will take the men and women who have experienced war on a long journey into memory, and will give those who have not an unpolished idea of war.…