CRACK HARDY ‘A FINE AND IMPORTANT BOOK’
Author: Stephen Dando-CollinsGlowing reviews continue to roll in for CRACK HARDY. Professor Ross Fitzgerald, writing in Spectrum in the Sydney Morning Herald, describes it as ‘a fine and important book,’ and ‘deeply moving.’
In the Weekly Times, Andrew Mole characterizes CRACK HARDY as ‘the most remarkable, most human, and most fragile record of the birth of the Anzac.’
Such reviews mirror the view of Professor Bill Gammage of ANU, who, at the Australian national launch in Canberra on April 14, said of CRACK HARDY: ‘It is an epic. To be memorable, an epic needs powerful writing, and here it is.’
For more detailed excerpts from the latest reviews go to the ‘Crack Hardy’ page in the ‘Books’ section of this website.
Meanwhile, Stephen’s blogs are now appearing on the Random House Australia website.
And, large print and braille editions of CRACK HARDY are now available from Read How You Want online.
August 4th, 2011 at 11:25 am
I have been so moved by “Crack Hardy”. Such a carefully and lovingly written account of an event that was driven by the cruel indifference of Empire to the suffering of a whole generation of Australian young men and their families. The linking of the author’s family story with those of thousands of others is especially poignant and it must have taken Stephen into places of personal grief and anger. The listing of so many names and their prior occupations and little snippets of their stories is a very important aspect of this important book. “…and in the morning, we will remember them”. Thank you Stephen and Louise for going on this journey of uncovering the real Anzac story and writing of it in such a powerful way.