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Odyssey of the unknown Anzac / David Hastings.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hastings, David, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McQuay, George (George Thomas), 1886-1951.
- McQuay, George.
- World War, 1914-1918--Biography.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Veterans--Mental health.
- Veterans.
- New Zealand.
- Soldiers--New Zealand--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Veterans--Mental health--New Zealand.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- World War I, 1914-1918--Biography.
- Local Subjects:
- World War I, 1914-1918--Biography.
- Veterans--Mental health--New Zealand.
- Soldiers--New Zealand--Biography.
- McQuay, George.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 185 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown ANZAC still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. David Hastings follows this one unknown ANZAC, George McQuay, from rural New Zealand through Gallipoli and the Western Front, through desertions and hospitals, and finally home to New Zealand"--Publisher information.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Rivers of Sorrow p. 1
- Chapter 2 Your Country Needs You! p. 9
- Chapter 3 All Aboard for the War p. 27
- Chapter 4 A Corner of Hell p. 41
- Chapter 5 Epidemic of Shock p. 55
- Chapter 6 Buried Alive p. 65
- Chapter 7 Mysterious Burden p. 78
- Chapter 8 In the Home of Forgotten Men p. 94
- Chapter 9 Where Are You, George? p. 110
- Chapter 10 Mother and Child Reunion p. 123
- Chapter 11 Bittersweet Homecoming p. 140.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781869408824
- 1869408829
- OCLC:
- 1017484648
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