Random House Australia, 2006

Edward Lynch was an eighteen-year-old Bathurst boy when he found himself in the freezing mud of the front line in January 1917. In this manuscript written in the late 1920s in pencil in school exercise books, Lynch tells a vivid and frightening story of life on the frontline, the fighting, the terrible sacrifice but also the humour of men at war. The book has been called Australia’s All Quiet on the Western Front.