Golden Harvest - Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudzinska Gross young adult 'Jackie French's research and subsequent

'Jackie French's research and subsequent feeling for the era is superb the descriptions of wartime Australia alone are fascinating

a picture emerges of a complex and thoughtful man guiding the city’s most famous merchant bank through the turbulent period between 1920’2 and 1950’s

Abram’s mum urged her nineteen-year-old son to ‘do everything humanly possible to survive

and on the seventh day the farmer brought out the yoke and plow

and an Australian woman who travels across the world to discover the truth

Golden Harvest - Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudzinska Gross young adult 'Jackie French's research and subsequentIt seems at first commonplace: a photograph of peasants at harvest time, after work well done, resting contentedly with their tools, behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices that what seemed innocent on first view becomes horrific: the crops scattered in front of the group are skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing? The starting point of Jan Gross's A Golden Harvest, this