Loch Sydney (162 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Straits Impregnable. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Athos, the Holy Mountain of Greece, is one of the most mysterious places in the world. A rugged pyramid that rises up from the Aegean Sea, this mountain is wreathed in myth, legend and ancient traditions that to this day remain largely hidden from view. The heart of Athos started to beat at the dawn of Christianity and its community lays claim to being the oldest democracy in the world. An entirely autonomous region of the Hellenic Republic, it is home to twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries that cling to its rocky flanks. No women are allowed to set foot upon the peninsula and the monks who inhabit this isolated place still use the Julian calendar, living on 'Byzantine Time', where each day starts at sunset. While living in the mountain's shadow, in Ouranopolis, Sydney Loch spent many years exploring Athos, the result of which is an enthralling and vivid portrait of the Holy Mountain. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Condition: New. 2010 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1917) SB 293 ppPublished Price £14.50 Although published as a novel to evade wartime censorship Sydney Loch's [Sidney De Loghe was a pen name] searing memoir of the Gallipoli campaign carries the note "This book, written in Australia, Egypt and Gallipoli, is true". Certainly the prose reads as though the author has been to hell and back, making the book a grim classic of Great War literature; 'Death was the farmer of that tranquil field. Look at the corpses, tumbled in every shape, as still as still could be. mark the green uniforms holding the sunlight, and the dusky faces, hideously misshapen with decay. Mark the swollen bodies. Mark the rotting eye socket. By night and by day shells pass over them, but this silent company sleeps on". So honest was Loch in his descriptions of war's hideous reality that the authorities in the Australian state of Victoria banned it when it first appeared during the war. Loch was a sheep farmer who joined up, eager to fight for a just cause. His disillusionment was bitter. His criticism of the shortage of shells and the inept conduct of the campaign by the Higher Command drew the wrath of censors.At first a 'galloper' or horse-borne messenger, Loch became a runner in the trenches where he saw a mate, Lieutenant Lewis, blown to bits beside him. Loch collected the bits in a sack and buried them. The author's prose, always vivid, is sometimes informed by his farming background, as when he describes a 'crater where eight dead men lay around like chickens come to feed at a basin'. Fortunately for him, Loch was finally laid low with dysentery and typhoid and evacuated in a coma in August 1915. Sent back to Melbourne to recover, he began to write this book - one of the most horrifically vivid accounts of Gallipoli ever penned. A humanitarian hero, in the Second World War Loch ran a refugee camp in Greece and Palestine - and was responsible for saving more than a thousand Poles from the Nazis. Book.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. First Edition. 248 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The Banned Account Of Gallipoli, Includes A Biography By Susanna De Vries And Jake De Vries.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. good condition in green cloth with bit of wear and bumping- no dust jacket - there are white spots on the binding, most on the front- book is not dated.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xvii+248pp., Pictorial illustrated card covers, previous ownership sticker inside upper corner front panel, intro. by Susanna & Jack, prologue, editors note, b/w plts. & text, epilogue, endnotes, ack., index. Now renowned historian Susanna de Vries and her husband Jake de Vries have unearthed Sydney's book for a new generation of readers and, to accompany it, have written a biography of the remarkable life of Sydney Loch: soldier, writer, humanitarian. Size: Octavo. Book.…

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