Monash : the soldier who shaped Australia
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0733333532
ISBN 13
9780733333538
Category
NON-FICTION
[ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2015
Publisher
Pages
720
Subject
Monash, John, Sir, 1865-1931; Australia. Australian Army -- Officers -- Biography; Generals -- Australia -- Biography. Engineers -- Australia -- Biography.
Abstract
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia - the first major biography of Monash in over a decade John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider, poor, Jewish in an era which still practiced anti-Semitism, bookish at a time when anti-intellectualism was the order of the day, a restless rebel who struggled to find his feet in career path and in love, but who nevertheless rose to become one of the nation's most enduring folk heroes. Author Grantlee Kieza tracks Monash's beginnings as the bright son of immigrant rabbis through his years of searching for an identity and his tumultuous love life as a ladies man in Melbourne society before he became one of the city's wealthiest and most successful citizens.
Number of Copies
1
