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.
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Books by Will Davies
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Beneath Hill 60
by Will DaviesPublished: 01/03/2011
The 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 DaviesPublished: 01/04/2010
Beautifully 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 DaviesPublished: 01/08/2008
Retrace Australia’s role in the First World War from the trenches of SOMME MUD to the wider war on the Western Front.
