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So Far from Home - The World War I Diaries of an Australian Solider (Paperback)
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So Far from Home - The World War I Diaries of an Australian Solider (Paperback)
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When 19 year old Sergeant Eric Evans embarked on a troop ship bound
for France in 1917, he was already a Galliopoli veteran and a
seasoned campaigner. But nothing could prepare him for the horrors
of the Western Front. During the next two years he was wounded
twice, badly gassed and saw countless friends and comrades die in
nightmarish circumstances. In diaries that he kept throughout his
ordeal, vivid and honest descriptions of life as an infantry
Sergeant are mingled with an overpowering yearning for his
sweetheart Dorothy Wright, patiently awaiting his return to Sydney.
His thoughtful writing captures a young soldier's life in all its
contradictions. From practical jokes and flirtations with nurses to
politics to the misery of life in the trenches, it adds a unique
and authentic voice to the annals of Australians at war.;None of
this was known until Fraser gregg chanced upon a suitcase belonging
to his father, Eric Evans. Fascinated by this unknown story and
realising the historical value of the diaries he engaged an editor,
Patrick Wilson, who prepared them for publication.
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