{"product_id":"their-fathers-land-paul-wenz-9781925706468","title":"Their Fathers' Land: For King and Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Egypt, in Gallipoli and in France, they are many who sleep beneath a small wooden cross and each cross will testify to people over there that we from downunder knew how to fight for a noble idea.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this novel, Jim and Dick are two lively boys from the bush, along with 20,000 other Australians and New Zealanders, who embarked on what seemed to be a great adventure when they enlisted in the 1st AIF - to fight for 'King and Empire'. Their experience is cut short when both are seriously wounded on the Gallipoli peninsula. They find themselves in beds next to each other on a hospital ship headed for England. As they slowly recover, they discover the 'old country' of their ancestors. Unfortunately, they fall for the same young English nurse and a love triangle emerges to trouble their futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench\/Australian author Paul Wenz based his novel and short stories on personal experience as an immigrant grazier in central NSW and working for the Red Cross in France and London during World War I. The writing is simple, at times poetic and humorous, instinctively seductive, devoid of convention and banality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eWenz is a brilliant noticer - a talent one is born with ... and without which no novelist can draw us into the world he is making\u003c\/em\u003e.' - Helen Garner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003ePaul Wenz can be seen as one of the first of our multicultural writers\u003c\/em\u003e.' - Maurice Blackman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Wenz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 192570646X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781925706468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ETT Imprint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.41d","brand":"Paul Wenz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49082984333567,"sku":"9781925706468","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/their-fathers-land-paul-wenz-9781925706468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}