Free shipping on orders over $99
The Price of Valour

The Price of Valour

The Triumph and Tragedy of a Gallipoli Hero, Hugo Throssell, VC

by John Hamilton
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/09/2013

Share This Book:

 
$19.99
From the bestselling author of Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You and Gallipoli Sniper.
In The Price of Valour award-winning journalist John Hamilton gives us an extraordinary insight into the life of a real Australian hero, Hugo Throssell.
From the bloody battles of The Nek and Hill 60 during the Gallipoli campaign, where Throssell won a Victoria Cross, to the Great Depression of the 1930s, where his life came to its tragic end, Hamilton has written a rich and vivid portrait of a fearless soldier, a national hero, a born-again socialist, a loving husband and father, and finally a victim of the war's long and destructive aftermath.
ISBN:
9781742613369
9781742613369
Category:
Biography: historical
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-09-2013
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
408
Dimensions (mm):
197x130x27mm
Weight:
0.31kg
John Hamilton

John Hamilton was born in England and migrated to Western Australia with his family when he was eight years old. After serving in the Royal Australian Navy he became a newspaperman, establishing himself in Melbourne. From there he has worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent for more than 30 years.

John Hamilton has won Australia's top award for journalism, the Walkley, two years in succession as well as the National Press Club Canadian Award of Journalistic Merit for his international reporting.

He has also been nominated twice for the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, for which he received a High Commendation. John Hamilton is an Australia Day Ambassador and is married with two sons.

Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available

Reviews

Be the first to review The Price of Valour.