A Quiet Man A Life Well-lived |
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| Author:
| Davison, Lucie
Gray, Rob |
| Editor:
| Davison, Lucie |
| Literary editor:
| Davison, Lucie |
| Research by:
| Davison, Lucie
Gray, Rob |
| Cover Design by:
| Gray, Rob |
| Prepared for Publication by:
| Gray, Rob |
| Technical editor:
| Gray, Rob |
| ISBN: | 978-0-6454890-2-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2024 |
| Publisher: | Only Slightly Foxed Publications
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Based on and including his diary, this is the story of William Paul White, Bill, an ordinary Australian soldier who served in the prewar Militia, Royal New South Wales Lancers, and in the 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion during the Second World War.As the story of an ordinary soldier this book is less concerned with the grand narratives of the war, and more with the minutiae of a soldier's life - training, employment, kit, leave, food and longing for home - the stuff of which life is made....
More DescriptionBased on and including his diary, this is the story of William Paul White, Bill, an ordinary Australian soldier who served in the prewar Militia, Royal New South Wales Lancers, and in the 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion during the Second World War.As the story of an ordinary soldier this book is less concerned with the grand narratives of the war, and more with the minutiae of a soldier's life - training, employment, kit, leave, food and longing for home - the stuff of which life is made. As such, it not only includes his experiences as a soldier in Australia, Palestine and Papua/New Guinea, but as a working-class kid in the Great Depression, as well as his post-war life as a family man.