This is an informal launch celebration, including a short address from the author. Edmund will also talk about his book and be available to sign copies.

The Bookplate cafe will have a pop-up bar selling refreshments in the Library Foyer.

About Anzac Guerrillas

Anzac Guerrillas is the incredible true story of how a handful of escaped Australian soldiers became resistance fighters, double agents and spies in Yugoslavia during World War II.

When the Germans took thousands of Allied prisoners during the catastrophic Greek campaign of 1941, a handful of Australian soldiers escaped from prison trains in occupied Yugoslavia. What awaited them was not passage home, but a brutal underground war where the fate of a nation was at stake.

Told through the eyes of two of the Australian escapees – Castlemaine mineworker Ross Sayers and Richmond storeman Ronald Jones – Anzac Guerrillas is the extraordinary story of how these men escaped German captivity, only to become embroiled in a civil war in Yugoslavia (royalist Četniks versus communist Partisans). The escaped Anzacs faced grave threats from all sides, and even as they came face-to-face with two of World War II's most divisive figures – Josip Broz Tito and Draza Mihailović – their sense of what was right never wavered.

About Edmund Goldrick

Edmund Goldrick grew up in Canberra, and after studying at Australian National University went on to work as a political and strategic studies researcher and journalist in the United Kingdom.

Most recently, following an article he wrote on Australian servicemen in Slovenia during World War II, his meticulous research and German language skills led to him co-writing The Greatest Escape with Neil Churches, a groundbreaking account of the escape of Australian, British, French, and New Zealander prisoners-of-war from German-occupied Slovenia in 1944.

Anzac Guerrillas is Edmund's first book.