The Bush Soldiers

by John Hooker

Collins, 1984, [First Edition], ISBN 0002222213, illustrated endpapers, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, age toned pages, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with rubbing, bumping, chipping and discolouration (see photographs)

“It is August 1943 and two heavily armed soldiers are within a day’s ride of the township of Bourke in Western New South Wales.  The countryside is empty, pestilential and gripped by drought.  For the last two months, Geoffrey Sawtell – a man with the horrors of the Great War indelibly etched in his mind – and Frank Counihan – a laconic drifter – have been riding west, poisoning wells, smashing telephone exchanges and burning homesteads as they go.  They constantly look and listen for their pursuers, but there is nothing, only the empty landscape.  However, they both know that sooner or later they must come to grips with the enemy, the Japanese who have invaded Australia.”