Crack Hardy: from Gallipoli to Flanders to the Somme, the true story of three Australian brothers at war. Stephen Dando-Collins. 2011.

‘Crack Hardy’ - grin and bear it, put on a brave face - was a saying among Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War trenches. This is the true story of three of those Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came home a decorated hero.

ThenSearle boys had to crack Hardy, as they fought in one gruelling campaign after another - from the first wave of the Gallipoli landings to Lone Pine, from Ypres to Messines and Hill 60 in Flanders, to bloody battles on the Somme at Mouquet Farm. Bullecourt and Hamel, with their brothers and mates falling all around them.