Farewell, Dear People: biographies of Australia's lost generation

WINNER OF THE 2013 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

WINNER OF THE 2012 MANNING CLARK HOUSE NATIONAL CULTURAL AWARD

COMMENDED FOR THE FAW EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION AWARD

For 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 — on the sheer quan...