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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:Viking , 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Settlement at Port Jackson, Watkin Tench , extract diary (p. 3-17)
Encounter with the Natives in the Pinjarra District On the Banks of the Murray, extract column (p. 21-26)
War Along the Waikato, Robert Laver , extract column (p. 31-37)
Those Sudan Days, Tom Gunning , single work autobiography (p. 41-45)
Note: Editor's note: Tom Gunning was one of 758 men who joined the New South Wales Sudan Contingent for the Sudan War to fight alongside the British in the closing stages of the Mahdi War 1885. Gunning also donated a memorial plaque to the 'Sudan Contingent' in East Circular Quay, Sydney.
Suakin, W.J. Lambie , extract column (p. 46-54)
The Adventures of a Naval Chief Gunner, W. H. Blake , extract autobiography (p. 59-71)
Pretoria, A. B. Paterson , extract autobiography (p. 75-83)
Diaries, 11 April - 5 May (1915), C. E. W. Bean , extract diary (p. 87-97)
War Letters, John Monash , extract correspondence (p. 98-103)
From : A Fortunate Life, A. B. Facey , extract autobiography (p. 104-109)
Mud & Trench Mythology, W. H. Downing , extract autobiography (p. 110-119)
The Desert Column, Ion L. Idriess , extract autobiography (p. 120-131)
Letters and Diary, Adrian Consett Stephen , extract autobiography (p. 132-139)
Pill-Boxes and Carnage, Joseph Maxwell , extract autobiography war literature (p. 140-153)
Black Sky at Noon, Martin Boyd , extract autobiography (p. 154-166)
Saving the Channel Ports, W.D. Joynt , extract autobiography (p. 167-179)
Nearing the End - Home Again, Edgar Morrow , extract autobiography war literature (p. 180-191)
Flaws in the Glass, Patrick White , extract autobiography (p. 195-209)
Wouldn't It, Chester Wilmot , extract autobiography (p. 210-222)
Mediterranean Front, Alan Moorehead , extract prose war literature (p. 223-241)
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