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This podcast is exclusive to IPA Members until a later date. Head to ipa.org.au/bookoffer for more details. Dr Bella d'Abrera speaks to Australia's leading commentators about their five favourite books and why each make their shortlist.
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Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
This episode is a discussion of Evelyn Waugh’s masterful and epic work which follows Guy Crouchback’s experience of World War Two. Greg loves this book because it’s a celebration of Guy’s decency. Guy is not a superhero, he doesn’t have a particular high IQ, he doesn’t win the war and he doesn’t even win the girl. But there is a theme of moral survival in the novel which comes through as it occurs to Guy during the course of the war that Stalin cannot be allowed to win.