From the bloody battles of The Nek and Hill 60 during the Gallipoli campaign, where Throssell won a Victorian Ross, to the Great Depression of the 1930s, where his life came to a tragic end, John Hamilton has written a rich and vivid portrait of the fearless soldier, national hero, a born-again socialist, loving husband and father Hugo Throssell and finally a victim of the war’s long and destructive aftermath.
