Monash: The Outsider Who Won A War
Random House, $49.95 hb, 605 pp
Biography
A Great Australian
by Martin Ball •
For a man who has as much claim as anyone to the title of ‘greatest Australian’, John Monash has remained a somewhat distant figure in the national imagination. Certainly, he is far less well known than that other pretender to the title, Donald Bradman. But the publication of a new biography by Roland Perry should put some balance back in Monash’s ledger.
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