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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Unknown Warrior : The Search for Australia's Greatest Ace
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'Despite the recent outpouring in interest in our military heritage, Captain Alec Little, the young Victorian credited with 47 victories is virtually unknown to ordinary Australians. He was only 22 when he died in his Sopwith Camel in a solo night pursuit of German bombers above the Western Front on 27 May 1918.' (Trove record)

Notes

  • Dedication: To my supportive and very patient wife Maureen, who now knows more of the first air war than she considers necessary, and to our children and grandchildren, who may appreciate here individual and collective loss beyond understanding on both sides of wars. And to my late father, VX48603 Lt John Rosel, who would never talk to his six children of what a former Melbourne bank clerk endured in 1941 to win a Military Cross as one of the Rats of Tobruk. His children agreed with the English poet Chaucer, writing of another warrior almost 600 years earlier:' A verray parfit gentil knyghte'.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Arcadia , 2012 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: xiii, 127p., [20]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., facsims, ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-124) and index.
      ISBN: 9781921875748

Works about this Work

Unknown Warrior: The Search for Australia’s Greatest Ace by Mike Rosel Viktor Stoll , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 9 no. 1 2015;

— Review of Unknown Warrior : The Search for Australia's Greatest Ace Mike Rosel , 2012 single work biography
Daredevils Enthrall with Derring-Do Ross Fitzgerald , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 November 2012; (p. 20)

— Review of Francis Birtles : Australian Adventurer Warren Brown , 2012 single work biography ; Unknown Warrior : The Search for Australia's Greatest Ace Mike Rosel , 2012 single work biography
Daredevils Enthrall with Derring-Do Ross Fitzgerald , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 November 2012; (p. 20)

— Review of Francis Birtles : Australian Adventurer Warren Brown , 2012 single work biography ; Unknown Warrior : The Search for Australia's Greatest Ace Mike Rosel , 2012 single work biography
Unknown Warrior: The Search for Australia’s Greatest Ace by Mike Rosel Viktor Stoll , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 9 no. 1 2015;

— Review of Unknown Warrior : The Search for Australia's Greatest Ace Mike Rosel , 2012 single work biography
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