Born of the Sun: Seven young Australian lives
Pandanus, $34.95 pb, 202 pp
Gillian Dooley reviews 'Born of the Sun: Seven young Australian lives' by Gerald Walsh
by Gillian Dooley •
Gerald Walsh’s book is an unabashed celebration of seven young Australians, golden boys who died during the first decades of the twentieth century. Five sporting heroes, one medical researcher and one soldier make up Walsh’s miniature hall of fame, early death being the common thread. The oldest of them was not quite twenty-seven when he died.
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