Forged By War

Australian Veterans in Combat and Back Home

By: Gina Lennox

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Paperback | 27 June 2025 | Edition Number 1

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In Forged By War, Australian veterans and their families reveal the experience of combat and how it has changed their lives. These stark first-hand accounts describe the reality of military action and its personal consequences in every major conflict and peacemaking mission since World War II, including the invasion of Iraq.

Sometimes the reader is in lockstep with a soldier on patrol, watching as a land mine explodes, or a local militiaman points an AK–47 at Australian peacemakers. Other times, the reader is inside a returned veteran's head, feeling their superfluous adrenalin, their need to control their environment, even at home.

With accounts from Peter and Lynne Cosgrove, Graham Edwards, Frank Hunt (I Was Only Nineteen), other veterans of Vietnam, Glenda Humes (daughter of Capt Reginald Saunders), peacemakers and an SAS trooper, this compelling investigation by Gina Lennox in underpinned by the question- where does family fit in a soldier's life?

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Non-Fiction History Military History Regional & National History Australasian & Pacific History Family & Health Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues Biographies & True Stories True Stories True War & Combat Stories Biographies Historical, Political and Military Biographies

Warfare & Defence Other Warfare & Defence Issues Military Veterans

Introduction : 'only the dead have seen the end of war'	p. 1
War in Afghanistan [2001-] and Iraq [2003-] and UN deployments from 1989
Always a little further - an SAS veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq	p. 12
A bent stalk laden with grain - Paul Copeland, peacemaker in Cambodia; and other peacemakers-peacekeepers in Iraqi Kurdistan, Namibia and Somalia	p. 53
Out of the closet - Dr Tony Williams and peacemakers in Rwanda and East Timor	p. 86
Families with veterans from World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War
Camaraderie and commonsense - General Peter Cosgrove and Lynne Cosgrove	p. 128
True blue - Glenda Humes, Noel Conigrave and John Kinseta	p. 157
A real war - Gloria Robinson	p. 180
Diamonds and stone - Garry Heskett	p. 201
Aftermath of the Vietnam War
War and politics - Graham Edwards	p. 228
Eggs and eggshells - Kathleen Schulz, Len Schulz Junior and Len Schulz Senior	p. 245
When penguins fly - Patricia Parsons	p. 260
Agent orange mist - Clarrie, Lona and Darcy Upton	p. 274
Soldier on regardless - Michael Wykes	p. 286
I was only nineteen - Frank Hunt	p. 300
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