Author Talk: Patricia Skehan

Join us for an author talk with author and historian Patricia Skehan, as she discusses her new book, The Secrets of Anzac Ridge: Flanders 1917.

About the book

Across human history the stakes are often highest in war, and in WWI the thing at stake was the future of the world.

Patricia Skehan reveals riveting secrets about WWI from the diaries of James Armitage, a young Sydney man who enlisted on his eighteenth birthday, as well as the writings of General Sir John Monash, the military mastermind leading the Anzac troops. Their records of the Western Front are combined in this moving portrait of catastrophic events set on Anzac Ridge, in Flanders fields.

About the author

Patricia is a founding member of the City of Canada Bay Heritage Society and conducts tours at Yaralla and Rivendell estates in Concord West. She has presented over 1000 heritage talks to Rotary, Probus, VIEW clubs and heritage societies across NSW as well as on radio and TV.

Born on Armistice Day, 1946, Patricia is married to a retired police sergeant. They live on the Central Coast.

About the event

1:30pm: Light refreshments

2–3pm: Author talk