To Hell And Back. The Banned Account Of Gallipoli

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 248 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The Banned Account Of Gallipoli, Includes A Biography By Susanna De Vries And Jake De Vries

Publishers Description: The book the military censors bannedAs a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipoli, Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first-hand. On his return to Australia he detailed what he saw in his book, the Straits Impregnable. Hoping to avoid military censorship, his publishers dubbed Sydneys book a novel. But as the war ground on and the numbers of casualties grew, the publisher inserted a note saying the story was factual. the book, which had enjoyed huge literary acclaim, was immediately withdrawn from sale by the censors. Sydney Lochs experiences in the war shaped his life afterwards. With his wife, Joice, he went on to work in refugee camps in Poland and Palestine, and his many subsequent books, set in war-torn countries, reflected his humanitarian beliefs. In to Hell and Back, historians Susanna and Jake de Vries have recovered and edited Sydneys book for a new generation of readers and written a biography of his remarkable life.PRAISE...eloquent and laconic... The Australian, 5th April 2007 Susanna and Jake de Vries have done well to resurrect this forgotten Australian story. The Sun Herald, 14th-15th April 2007

ISBN: 9780732285456