Dust Donkeys And Delusions

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
Publisher Place: Newport. NSW
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 402 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. The Myth Of Simpson And His Donkey Exposed

Publishers Description: Dust, Donkeys and Delusion examines and clinically debunks the myth that has grown up around Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the so-called `Man with the Donkey, the quintessential Australian `hero of Gallipoli. While the various elements of the Simpson myth have now become popularly accepted as `history, Dust, Donkeys and Delusion shows clearly, based on historical documents, both official and unofficial, that almost every word ever spoken or written about Simpson following his death is false. Industry Reviews The fact that campaigners still want Kirkpatrick to be awarded a retrospective Victoria Cross suggests that there may be something to this story which author Graham Wilson seeks to debunk... * Books Monthly *

ISBN: 9781921941740