Desert sands jungle lands: a biography of Major General Ken Eather, by Steve Eather [Book review]

Abstract

A review of Desert Sands Jungle Lands: A Biography of Major General Ken Eather By Steve Eather, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2003, 236 pages. In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Australian military history of the Second World War, and a corresponding increase in research and publication on this aspect of our past. Desert Sands Jungle Lands falls within the strong tradition of military biographical studies that has seen a range of accounts of the lives of former soldiers such as Vasey, Blamey, Honer and Potts. Readers will now have the opportunity to assess Australian history with this biography of Major General Ken Eather. While for some readers Eather may be a name associated with victory at Kokoda, this book paints a much more complex and fascinating picture of the life an Australian citizen soldier.