Next Patrick wrote biographies of former triathlon champion Greg Welch.
With his unique storytelling he reconnects us with the past while taking us on the gruelling journey that is Kokoda. The Spirit of Gallipoli and Balance, Its Never Too Late hit the shops in April 2006. In Kokoda Spirit, Patrick Lindsay takes us on a journey that explores the track as it is today and how it was in 1942. It is one of the world’s most fascinating locations – at once an alluring, challenging obstacle of compelling beauty and yet a foreboding, perilous microcosm of life at its rawest and most savage. The track plays a leading role in the story of Kokoda.
Lindsay examines the conflict and uses per- sonal accounts to give authenticity to the soldiers’ stories. Today, it is hard to imagine what those young men endured for our freedom but the journey gives some clues. A shorter book titled ‘The Spirit of GallipoliThe birth of 6 the Anzac Legend’ by Patrick Lindsay was also added to my Gallipoli library. In August 1942 Kokoda was a killing field. If Gallipoli symbolised the ANZAC spirit in WWI, then Kokoda is its WWII equivalent. Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 208 pagesĬomments: The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia’s Alamo. In 'The Spirit of Gallipoli' Patrick Lindsay explores the source of the Anzac legend as he continues his quest to understand what it means to be Australian.
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