The Happy Warrior: An Anthology of Australian Military Poetry
Author(s): Paul Barrett, Kerry Boyd Collison
This book is an important work of historical retrieval. The volume returns to these long forgotten rank-and-file bards both their voice and their moral stature in our folk literature. The lighter side of military life is not forgotten, for laughter really is a soldier's last line of defence, putting a morbid reality into proportion. The book includes poetry from the Boer war to modern day peacekeeping in East Timor.
Product Information
Warrant Officer Paul Barrett was born in Enlgand 1953. He joined the British Army in 1972 and served in Germany, Canada and Northern Ireland. He emigrated to Australia with his family in 1990, and joined the Australian Army. He has been posted to Bandiana and Sydney, and is currently serving at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne.
Kerry B. Collison has served in the Australian military and government intelligence services, and pursued a successful business career spanning thirty years throughout Asia.
General Fields
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- : sid
- : sid
- : 230x150mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Paul Barrett, Kerry Boyd Collison
- : Paperback
- : 1st March 2001
- : 529