Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front

Non-Fiction Finalist

Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front
Leon Davidson
Text Publishing Company
ISBN 978-1-92165-607-1 pb RRP $25.00
Target age 13+

Leon Davidson’s third book is that rare and perfectly balanced blend of first-person accounts and the raw facts of war. Written with a younger reader in mind, this is a story many never lived to tell, and all of us should know. Gallipoli may have been the Anzac’s ‘baptism of fire’ but the Western Front was where they came of age as a fighting force.

Leon Davidson grew up with Second World War comics and movies, and tried to enlist in the New Zealand Armed Forces when he was eight. When he was old enough he spent ten years overseas, mainly in Melbourne. He now lives in Wellington, where he juggles writing with primary school teaching. He is the author of the multi-award-winning titles Scarecrow Army and Red Haze. His third book is Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front.