True accounts of the First World War / The Great War / WWI as told by the soldiers themselves!
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episode 5: The desert columnist Ion Idriess
Ion Idriess was arguably the greatest adventure novelist Australia has produced, writing 53 books in a 40 year career. As a young man in the iconic Australian Light Horse he kept a diary which he later turned into his most enduring book, "The Desert Column". This is his story.