The War Quartet

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Tothemill P/L
Publisher Place: Mosman
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 940 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Signed By Author

Publishers Description: Military historian, George Franki, describes The War Quartet as tour de force. It is an informative, well researched story which chronicles the catastrophic Second World War and the grand delusions of supremacy that contributed to the outbreak of the world wide conflict and charts the ebb and flow of victory and defeat. These themes are interwoven with everyday life in Ama Military historian, George Franki, describes The War Quartet as tour de force. It is an informative, well researched story which chronicles the catastrophic Second World War and the grand delusions of supremacy that contributed to the outbreak of the world wide conflict and charts the ebb and flow of victory and defeat. These themes are interwoven with everyday life in Amaroo and the overseas experiences of its men-folk, ordinary soldiers and POW's and the war correspondent, Declan Dunn. It is written in a racy, readable style, a page turner for anyone interested in history.Melville's War Quartet is peopled with a cast of fascinating characters, both Allied and Axis, including the titans of the decade, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini, great generals such as Montgomery, Bradley, MacArthur, Rommel and Australian war correspondents such as Alan Moorehead, Chester Wilmot, and the main protagonist, Declan Dunn, correspondent and member of the SOE. The principal characters are the citizens of Amaroo, a typical Australian country town - those who stayed home struggling to keep the town going and the families together, the men overseas fighting and dying in North Africa, Greece, Crete, Malaya and New Guinea and those suffering as POWs of the Germans and Japanese. The War Quartet takes reader from the peaceful life of Amaroo to the sophistication of London, the horror of Spain during the Civil War, the miracle of Dunkirk, the bombing of the London blitz, the bloody bedlam of desert battles in North Africa, the nightmare of Auschwitz, the agonising slog of the Kokoda Track, the confines of Changi and misery of the Thai-Burma railway, the fascinating world of deception, and finally the painful breathtaking spectacle of D-Day, Normandy and beyond.Patricia Melville was born in 1933. She has three daughters from her first marriage and now lives in Sydney with her second husband, Big Melville. She enrolled at Sydney University as 'mature age student' and graduated with honours in Fine Arts, the history of art. She then commenced the research for The War Quartet. (less)

ISBN: 9780646514765