Tag

Tag
Barry Heard
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Paperback
h198 x 128mm - 384pg
8 Jan 2019 AU
International import eta 7-19 days
9781925713947
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Even as a lad, Tag Wardpod has an extraordinary gift with animals. Growing up in western Victoria, he is followed to school by his pets, he trains lizards to eat snails in the vegie patch, and he tames brumbies on the High Plains. Then, when war is declared in 1914, and recruitment posters promise a great adventure, Tag leaves his job as a blacksmith and horse handler to join the Light Horse Brigade. But neither bush camps with his mates nor football heroism have prepared him for the horror, fury, and love that await him in Gallipoli and France. Soothing shell-shocked horses in desperate conditions, his gifts will both endanger and save him. Barry Heard, the author of the much-loved Vietnam War memoir Well Done, Those Men, here brings new insights to the Gallipoli legend. A true storyteller, his imagination makes real for us the formative battlefield of early Australian nationhood. Tag is a moving war story that is also a bush tale, a family saga, a romance, and a revelation of how the human spirit can survive war's inhumanity.
'Heard made me forget that "Tag" was a novel. With all its mayhem, madness, appalling carnage and war time love, I felt like I was in the trenches of Gallipoli and the Western Front with Tag, Tiger, Bucket and Golly. Heard brings the reader to a deeper level of understanding of the exceptional work our diggers did under a great deal of stress, both physically and emotionally." --Gordon Trail, Peacekeepers Association
Barry Heard was conscripted in Australia's first national service ballot, and served in Vietnam as an infantryman and radio operator. After completing his national service he returned home, where he found himself unable to settle down. He had ten different jobs in his first ten years back, worked as a teacher for a further ten years, and then held several mid-managerial posts before succumbing to a devastating breakdown due to severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781925713947
Published: 8 Jan 2019
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Scribe Publications
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Pages: 384

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