Eyewitness: Australians Write From the Front-line
Author: Hutchinson, Garrie
ISBN: 9781863951661
Publisher: Black Inc
Year First Published: 2005
Pages: 464
Dimensions: 234mm x 154mm x 33mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
This is writing of great immediacy, passion and truthfulness, with each selection accompanied by a brief scene-setting narrative and a biographical sketch.
In Eyewitness, Garrie Hutchinson has selected the cream of writing from Australia's wars. Many of our finest writer-reporters are featured - C.E.W. Bean, Alan Moorehead, Paul McGeough.Kenneth Slessor, Ray Parkin, Osmar White, John Martinkus, Peter Ryan and more.The settings range from the beach at Anzac Cove in 1914 to the Kokoda Track, from desert dugouts to a hotel in Baghdad. Eyewitness shows how Australian war correspondents, official and unofficial, have written with courage and conviction, under pressure of censorship and physical and technical hardship.This is writing of great immediacy, passion and truthfulness, with each selection accompanied by a brief scene-setting narrative and a biographical sketch.
ISBN: 9781863951661
Publisher: Black Inc
Year First Published: 2005
Pages: 464
Dimensions: 234mm x 154mm x 33mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
This is writing of great immediacy, passion and truthfulness, with each selection accompanied by a brief scene-setting narrative and a biographical sketch.
In Eyewitness, Garrie Hutchinson has selected the cream of writing from Australia's wars. Many of our finest writer-reporters are featured - C.E.W. Bean, Alan Moorehead, Paul McGeough.Kenneth Slessor, Ray Parkin, Osmar White, John Martinkus, Peter Ryan and more.The settings range from the beach at Anzac Cove in 1914 to the Kokoda Track, from desert dugouts to a hotel in Baghdad. Eyewitness shows how Australian war correspondents, official and unofficial, have written with courage and conviction, under pressure of censorship and physical and technical hardship.This is writing of great immediacy, passion and truthfulness, with each selection accompanied by a brief scene-setting narrative and a biographical sketch.
