Roland Perry has written great military books like Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War; Horrie the War Dog, and Bill the Bastard. Now he’s turned his pen to the story of Stan Savige, who left school at 12 to become a blacksmith’s striker, enlisted for World War 1 and became a sniper at Gallipoli, and then rose through the ranks become a World War 2 General. Savige was a great warrior who fought and commanded in both wars – in Europe, the middle east, north Africa, and the Pacific in World 2. He was also a man of character and compassion, and between the wars he founded the war veterans’ support charity Legacy. This is a great story, as you’d expect from Roland Perry, about a great soldier.
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