John Monash

By Geoffrey Serle,

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A major Australian university and a great Victorian freeway are named after Sir John Monash, but many people - especially younger generations - know little about him. The son of Jewish immigrants from Prussia, Monash graduated from the University of Melbourne in three faculties - Arts, Law and Engineering. Heā€¦

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1 author picked John Monash as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Geoffrey Serle was an outstanding Australian historian who wrote a number of fine books, and one of the best was his award-winning biography of the most renowned AIF commander, John Monash.

Various other authors have compiled books on Monash, but none are as good as Serleā€™s. This is a magisterial whole-of-life volume, with plenty on Monashā€™s life before WWI and during the 1920s. It was a marvellous precedent for me to keep prominently in mind after I embarked on my whole-of-life, warts-and-all biography of Monashā€™s contemporary, Pompey Elliott.

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