Home Front
The never-ending war within our veterans
$30.58
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
11 April 2023
Summary
Forty-one Australian soldiers died in action over 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan; in that time more than 1400 veterans have taken their own lives. Veterans today are chronically over-represented when it comes to PTSD, depression, homelessness and suicide. Australians rightfully pause on Anzac Day each year to solemnly remember fallen soldiers, but are we forgetting our returned veterans whose personal battles continue every single day, and how did we get to this point?
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922806444 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922806447 |
| Author: | Patrick Lindsay |
| Publisher: | Affirm Press |
| Imprint: | Affirm Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 11 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 151mm x 323mm x 225mm |
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About The Author
Patrick Lindsay
Patrick Lindsay is one of Australia’s leading non-fiction authors and an acclaimed documentary maker, broadcaster and film-maker. In 2022 he wrote, directed and produced The Home Front, a feature documentary that aired on the Nine Network. Before taking up writing full-time in 2001, he was a newspaper reporter and, from 1981, a prominent TV reporter/presenter. In 2015, he was named a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘significant service to the media as a television presenter and journalist, to international relations, and to literature as an author’. He was a founding director of the Kokoda Track Foundation, served for eleven years as its chairman and is now one of its ambassadors. Patrick lives in Sydney, is married to Lisa Cotton and has three grown-up children, Nathan, Kate and Sarah, and two grandchildren, Lucas and Sophia.
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