There and Back with a Dinkum

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card cover trade paperback size, 308pp, b&w and colour photos. Light wear to card edges; else very good+ The author served as a private, NCO and officer in the 27th Battalion AIF from 1915 to 1919. Presented here for the first tim is the story of a young university student who enlists to 'do his bit'. In the persona of his narrator, John Carlton, Colman journeys from schoolboy cricked captain in Adelaide to infantry officer on the Western Front, where he is twice wounded and awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. A thoughtful and intelligent writer, he tells what it means to be a civilian in a soldier's world. Includes commentary from two leading South Australian military historians.