{"id":10526,"date":"2012-04-15T12:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T12:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=10526"},"modified":"2012-06-11T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:25:30","slug":"ross-mcmullins-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=10526","title":{"rendered":"Ross McMullin’s new book"},"content":{"rendered":"

FFFAIF member Ross McMullin has added another interesting\u00a0publication to his every\u00a0 list of books: Farewell, Dear People – biographies of Australia’s lost generation.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Publisher Scribes Publications<\/em> described the book as:
\nFor Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have tended to focus primarily on the numbing number of losses \u2014 on the sheer quantity of all those countrymen who did not return.
\nThat there must have been extraordinary individuals among them has been implicitly understood, but these special Australians are unknown today. This book seeks to retrieve their stories and to fill the gaps in our collective memory.
\nFarewell, Dear People contains ten extended biographies of <\/span><\/span>young men who exemplified Australia\u2019s gifted lost generation of World War I.
\nAmong them are accounts of an internationally acclaimed medical researcher; a military officer described by his brigadier as potentially an Australian Kitchener; a rugby international who became an esteemed administrator and a rising Labor star; an engineer who excelled on Mawson\u2019s Antarctic mission; a visionary vigneron and community leader who was renowned for successful winemaking at an unusually young age; a Western Australian Rhodes scholar assured of a shining future in the law and\/or politics; a Tasmanian footballer who dazzled at the highest level; and a budding architect from Melbourne\u2019s best-known creative dynasty who combined an endearing personality with his family\u2019s flair for writing and drawing.
\nThis magisterial book tells their stories for the first time. In doing so, it enriches the story of Australia immeasurably.<\/p>\n

RRP: $45<\/p>\n

Farewell, Dear People – biographies of Australia’s lost generation <\/em>will be\u00a0launched by Bruce Scates at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne on Wednesday 18 April, at 6.30pm. Contact The Shrine<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

If you have always dreamt of visiting the hallowed ground in the footsteps of the Diggers of the Great War, we can get you there! There are still places available on the<\/span> 2012 FFFAIF Commemorative Tour<\/a>. Book now and join the unforgettable experience. Contact<\/span> secretary@fffaif.org.au<\/a> today for further details.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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