Regional Australia and the Great War: 'The Boys from Old Kio'

by Philip Payton

In this book, Philip Payton provides a vivid insight into the experiences of regional Australia during the Great War of 1914-18. Alighting upon 'old Kio', the copper-mining communities of South Australia's northern Yorke Peninsula, he describes the relationship between the 'homefront' and the 'battlefront' half-a-world away. He draws an intimate portrait of Australia at war, from the lives (and deaths) of local soldiers--all volunteers--in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859898733
• ISBN13: 9780859898737
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"