From the true WWI story of the Jones family Australians embroiled in death and disaster Community and culture impacted by war Ned, Mylie, Charlie and Jack—four of Jane Jones’s sons, and her daughter Edith, give first-hand accounts of their WWI experience. From Bowral in New South Wales to the bloodstained battlefields of Europe and North Africa they go, wielding little other than young earnest courage. From Egypt and Gallipoli to Pozières and Villers-Bretonneux they weave a trail of death and disaster wrought for them by others. A harrowing life-changing war alters who they are, and their mother’s peace of mind, forever. Months of torment and uncertainty are interspersed with brief flashes of irrepressible Australian joy and humour, a character which remains the salient force of this remarkable novel. https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/author/B0F28R97JL/about