Collection type | Library |
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Author | McPhedran, Ian, 1957-, author.; |
Call Number | 355.6990994 M172w |
Document type | Monograph |
Year | 2019. 2019. 019. |
Pagination | xii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits, maps ; 25 cm |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Australia, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, |
Note | Includes index. Includes index. Leave no man behind. What drives former soldiers to spend years searching for the remains of fallen warriors? From the WW1 battlefields of the Somme and Fromelles to the jungles of Papua New Guinea and Vietnam, this is the fascinating and moving story ofthe dogged hunt by two former diggers for the remains of Aussie soldiers listed as MIA in WWII and Vietnam. These extraordinary men - and a handful of others - will not rest until every Australian soldier who has died overseas serving their country is ret urned to Australian soil and their families. It is a story of incredible determination against difficult odds, of exacting forensic analysis and painstaking detective work, to uncover and identify the remains of Australian soldiers, in battlefield over th e decades, and to bring their remains home. Tertiary/Undergraduate. General. |
Place made | Sydney, NSW : Sydney, NSW : |
Where soldiers lie : the quest to find Australia's missing war dead / Ian McPhedran. Quest to find Australia's missing war dead
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Subjects
- Military history.
- Missing in action.
- Repatriation of war dead.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Repatiation of war dead - Australia. - Missing in action - Australia. - Repatriation of war dead - Australia.
- World War, 1939-1945 - Repatiation of war dead - Australia. - Repatriation of war dead - Australia.
- World War, 1914-1918 - Repatriation of war dead - Australia.
- Repatriation of war dead.
- Repatiation of war dead.
- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1914-1918 - Missing in action - Australia.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Repatiation of war dead - Australia. - Missing in action - Australia.
- World War, 1939-1945 - Repatiation of war dead - Australia. - Missing in action - Australia.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Repatiation of war dead - Australia.
- World War, 1939-1945 - Repatiation of war dead - Australia.
- Australia.
- Australia - History, Military.
- Australian
- Australian history
- Personal narratives.
- Military history.
- Personal narratives.