The Longest Wire by Hugh Atkinson pet whose pretensions mark its members

whose pretensions mark its members among the author's most felicitous creations

"Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I

Raeburn shows clearly how the bitter war developed from its unsophisticated beginnings to the adoption of advanced methods of fighting

a troubled young man from an unhappy family

of Frenchmen of the at generation

The Longest Wire by Hugh Atkinson pet whose pretensions mark its membersThe Longest Wire by Hugh Atkinson Angus & Robertson, 1982 [First Edition], ISBN 0207148325, hardcover, dust jacket Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear a little rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dust jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners (see photographs) "Before the completion in 1872 of the Overland Telegraph Line between Adelaide and Darwin, Australia's communications with the