For Love of Country, Penguin Viking, Melbourne, 2016
At the close of the First World War, and after surviving a gas attack on the Western Front, Captain Walter Eddison moved his family from war-ravaged Britain to start a new life in Australia. The Eddisons were offered “land fit for heroes” under the Australian government’s soldier-settlement scheme, but the grim realities of life in the remote bush were not easy for a family used to the green pastures of England.
Walter and Marion made the best of their limited prospects, but as they raised their young family on the outskirts of the nation’s newly established capital, tensions were again simmering in Europe. When the Second World War broke out, they were forced to confront their worst fears as their three sons headed back to the battlefields they’d tried so hard to leave behind. (blurb)
The book is launched in Canberra in March 2016. Gentle Reader reviews the book for Honest History.
Anthony Hill’s book Young Digger has been re-released. It tells of a French orphan adopted by Australian soldiers in 1918.
