224 pages, indexed, end notes, illustrated with black and white plates. The covers are lighty creased and lightly bumped at the front's outer edges, else a clean unmarked and solid copy. "From the late 19th century to the 1950s, many wool buyers from the Flanders region of France & Belgium emigrated to Australia with their families to establish careers as buyers for the woollen mills of Europe. Although originally they had no intention of remaining here permanently, many stayed, establishing a prosperous and vibrant French community. A peaceful period of business building ended suddenly in 1914 when the Flanders men of Australia returned to the defence of their homeland. Their villages, towns and field became the site of some of the worst killing of World War One. They fought and died in battles all along the Western Front." (publisher)