For the mother who lost her sailor son to suicide, 'lest we forget' are just empty words

For the mother who lost her sailor son to suicide, 'lest we forget' are just empty words

Julie-Ann Finney wants action after her son David Finney's death. The songwriter beind I Was Only 19 is leading the charge to highlight the anguish of forgotten veterans.

Lest: Australian War Myths (2024), by Mark Dapin

I’ve read two of Mark Dapin’s novels, Spirit House (2011, see here) and R&R (2015, here), but until reading Lest: Australian War Myths I’d never read any of his nonfiction before. A journalist, author, historian and screenwriter born in 1963, Dapin has other NF titles listed at the front of the book.  These, as you can […]