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'This is a truly remarkable history.' - Lyndal Roper, Regis Professor of History, Oxford University 'Gripping and moving, it made me realise what it means to be part of a battalion.' - Lyndal Roper, Regis Professor of History, Oxford University 'A groundbreaking social history of soldiers at war.' - Alistair Thomson, Professor of History, Monash University 'A tour de force and an exemplar of historical scholarship, written with the empathy and insight of an accomplished storyteller.' - Bruce Scates, Professor of History, Australian National University

‘This is a truly remarkable history.’ – Lyndal Roper, Regis Professor of History, Oxford University ‘Gripping and moving, it made me realise what it means to be part of a battalion.’ – Lyndal Roper, Regis Professor of History, Oxford University ‘A groundbreaking social history of soldiers at war.’ – Alistair Thomson, Professor of History, Monash University ‘A tour de force and an exemplar of historical scholarship, written with the empathy and insight of an accomplished storyteller.’ – Bruce Scates, Professor of History, Australian National University

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Dr Jim Mitchell lectured in history at the University of Melbourne in the 1970s and 1980s, was a Curator of eighteenth-century books at the British Library from 1979 to 1982, was Deputy Director of the Melbourne University Counselling Service in the 1980s and 1990s, and was Archivist at Scotch College in the 2000s. He has written six other books, all non-fiction. While living in London Dr Mitchell sat on the Council of the British Section of Amnesty International. He divides his time between inner-city Melbourne and rural Gippsland.

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