Will Davies
Will Davies is a historian, writer and filmmaker. SOMME MUD: The war experiences of an Australian infantryman in France 1916-1919, which he edited, has become a bestseller in Australia and the UK and will soon be published in The Netherlands. In The Footsteps Of Private Lynch has also been published to acclaim in Australia and the UK. He has recently written Beneath Hill 60 and edited Somme Mud: Young Readers' Edition for high school aged readers.
News and Blog
Three Random House books have been shortlisted for the 2011 Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards: WOLFBORN by Sue Bursztynski, THE INNOCENTS by Nette Hilton and SOMME MUD by Will Davies are all in the running for the prestigious prize, which celebrates the best of book design in Australia annually. Last year, Random House book, RANSOM by David Malouf took home the prize for cover...
Keep up-to-date - from the Development stages and Pre Production to the Shoot and Post Production. Click here And most importantly the great news that this incredible Aussie WW1 story will be a major non-fiction book to be published by Random House in early 2010 by acclaimed and bestselling writer of SOMME MUD, Will Davies.
Books by Will Davies
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Beneath Hill 60
by Will DaviesThe story of the Australian miners and soldiers who tunnelled under Hill 60 near Ypres and eventually broke through to create a new frontline and enable the march to Berlin.
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Somme Mud: Young Readers' Edition
by Will DaviesBeautifully presented young readers’ edition of the bestselling memoir of a young soldier on the First World War’s Western Front.
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In The Footsteps Of Private Lynch
by Will DaviesRetrace Australia’s role in the First World War from the trenches of SOMME MUD to the wider war on the Western Front.
greg hyde0 stars
11 November 2011 at 7:07am
ReportDear Will, By chance I heard your fascinating chat on the radio this morning and am glad on such occasions to be an insomniac! It was much more interesting than the Science Show or Encounter and I will check out your Battlefield and get a copy of your books as well.
greg hyde0 stars
11 November 2011 at 7:10am
ReportWill...I think I've pushed the wrong button...Loved your radio chat. Hope you and yours are better than well. XX to Heather and You Greg
Dave0 stars
13 November 2011 at 12:23am
ReportDear Will, Loved both Somme Mud and "Footsteps......". One TINY niggle; your references to "the HMAT Wiltshire". Should be either "the Wiltshire" or "HMAT Wiltshire" (without "the"). One of those stupid things that irritates old navy men. Surprised it got by your subs!
Tony Kelly0 stars
15 November 2011 at 4:15pm
ReportDear Will have read Somme Mud and footsteps P Lynch . Heard you on radio sometime ago wanting to know what happened to men of 45th . My grandfather was in the 45th and in D company. I worked with him. His name was 4255 pRIVATE THOMAS WRAY Drinkall.He enlisted 6 6 16 taken on strength 45th 9 7 17 .Bombed by Japanese 18th February 1942 whilst on tss Zealandia died oct 68 . I am writing an account about him .could I have your contact details pls
john goodwin0 stars
31 December 2011 at 2:17pm
Reporthi! willo it is along time since we have had contact with each other.i wish you and your family well for the new year.
Steart0 stars
7 January 2012 at 10:28pm
ReportHi Will We met once long, long ago when I owned and ran Garner MacLennan access the rod from you in Crowsnest. A quick line to tell you how much I am enjoying - if that's the right word for it - Somme Mud. My grandfather served there initially with the 5th Field Artillery Brigade, 13th Battery in the Second Division and was - as he had done agriculture a Hawkesbury Ag College, to the Vet Corps and then at the close of the war to the Vet Evacuation Station, looking after all the horses. He did not talk of the war much but would always say "The mud!". Now I know why. We were also recently up in Arras and visited the cave system the Maori miners had dug Really amazing and again not well know. Covered it on our Blog. His brother was initially a driver/mechanic with the before lying about his age and being sent off to be trained in the 4th Squadron in Gloucester where he died in a training crash in his SE5 just before the war ended. That led me to read Fire in the Sky which is another amazing and vividly written book about a part of WWI we all know to little about. In this regard I found Lynch's descriptions of seeing the dog fight over the trenches when he first arrived on the Somme very interesting. We are presently living in or canal boat in Paris and look forward to making a visit along the some Canal later this year, so have just ordered your follow up book to help trace his movements there. We've been through Verdun, and along the canals through Flanders and find it all very harrowing nevertheless.. When we are back in Australia in April I hope to check out their SE5 and get a copy of the doco ANZACs Over England made about the escapades in Gloucestershire while in training. All the best to you Stewart
deborah figueira0 stars
Monday at 9:36pm
Reportwill am in Newcastle don't have your phone number - please ring me on 0428689000