Because Our Fathers Lied

From Boer to World War: Australia's Baptism by Fire

Because Our Fathers Lied
Paula Astridge
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Paperback
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1 Feb 2023 AU
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9781922800183
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They called the Second Boer War, the Forgotten War, but it wasn' t by those who fought it. The Australian soldiers who survived its savagery hardly had a chance to draw breath before they were called upon again to sacrifice themselves in WW1. This story is taken from the viewpoint of four friends - arguably Australia' s and the Allied Forces' greatest generals: John Monash, Brudenell White, Harry Chauvel and Spencer Browne. It is a up-close account of all they saw and suffered due to the blunders of British officers who made their work all the harder by way of bad commands. Among them were a host of famous names like Kitchener, Haig and Winston Churchill, some of whom never learned their lesson, while the one who was initially blamed for the horrors of Gallipoli later shaped up well. This book looks at the worst of battles and the most wonderful acts of courage during them. It has been written in homage to all those who fought to forge Australia into a great nation.
Paula Astridge is an Australian award-nominated author. She was born in the NSW country town of Inverell in 1958, and later based in Sydney, worked for Rolling Stone Magazine and the newspaper industry, before co-founding a successful advertising agency and pursuing her writing career on a full-time basis. Her first three books: Golden Boy, In the Way of the Reich and Kill The Fuhrer focus on WW2, respectively profiling the controversial Albert Speer; Hermann and Albert Goering; and the failed German conspiracy to assassinate Hitler in 1944. Moving then to concentrate on the largely unknown role that Australia has played in world history, her next two books: Waltzing Dixie and Bad Hand tackled, in turn, the untold story of Australians who fought in the American Civil War, and the final solution to the mystery of Fletcher Christian after the Bounty mutiny. Both books piqued interest in the film industry and Bad Hand was nominated for the prestigious UK Mountbatten Literary Award by the First Lord of the Admiralty. Her sixth book: Scallywag and seventh, Rocket Man return to WW2: the first, delving into the murky world of Allied espionage and the mysterious wartime disappearance of Flight 777; while Rocket Man probed into the story of Baron von Braun - the contentious inventor of the deadly V-2 rocket and the Apollo 11 which flew us to the moon. Her subsequent novel, Deep Sleep puts us on Titanic' s deck, going down with it before following the fate of those who sursvived it. It is her pride in Australia that has had her write her latest: Because Our Father' s Lied - the up close and very personal look at the lives, courage and suffering of the men who fought in the Second Boer War and World War 1.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781922800183
Published: 1 Feb 2023
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Woodslane Pty
Publisher: Woodslane Pty
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220

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