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020			_a9781742755731 (pbk)
020			_a1742755739 (pbk)
035			_a(OCoLC)759393536
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn759393536
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100	1		_aDando-Collins, Stephen, _d1950-
245	1	0	_aCrack hardy / _cStephen Dando-Collins.
260			_aNorth Sydney, N.S.W. : _bRandom House Australia, _c2012.
263			_a201204
300			_a1 v.
520			_aThis is the true story of three Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came home a decorated hero. Viv, a gifted poet who was planning to be a clergyman before the war, became a deadly efficient sniper. Ray shot himself and was charged with desertion. Ned was a true Australian larrikin, up for anything, and the black sheep of the family. The Searle boys had to crack hardy, as they fought in one grueling campaign after another - from the first wave of the Gallipoli landings to Lone Pine, from Ypres to Messines and Hill 60 in Flanders, to bloody Somme battles at Mouquet Farm, Bullecourt, and Hamel, with their brothers and mates falling all around them. Back home in an Australian country town, their mother, father, sisters and remaining brother also had to crack hardy, as the bad news from the front just kept coming, and coming. Told from the heart by the Searle brothers' great-nephew, award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins using the letters and journals of the Searle brothers and remembrances of other family members, ICrack Hardy/I is a compelling book that defines Australia and Australians during the making of our nation on the far-flung battlefields of the First World War.
600	3	0	_aSearle family.
650		0	_aSoldiers _zAustralia _vBiography.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xParticipation, Australian.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xCasualties _zAustralia.
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