5/24/2023 0 Comments Bad Characters by Peter Stanley![]() ![]() The turning point was historian (and former Australian War Memorial principal historian) Professor Peter Stanley’s 2010 book Bad Characters, predicated on the idea that an army reflects all the human diversity of the society that it comes from. Thumbing through shelves of books about “the history of the AK47, or Rommel’s strategic thinking”, he wrote in his diary “I have no idea what I’m doing here. The novel began in the Australian Defence Force Academy’s Canberra library, with a fellowship that the Goulburn writer had never expected to receive. ![]() Nigel Featherstone writes a good battle scene, a good love scene and a good story.Īnd while Bodies of Men, the story of two men’s passionate love affair during the Western Desert campaign is a spare, elegant and beautifully written book, it’s the complexity of ordinary lives that rivets the author. Nigel Featherstone at the Australian War Memorial with his novel, Bodies of Men (Hachette). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |