The Terrible Truths by Kev Richardson (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Terrible Truths by Kev Richardson ...third in the trio after Letitia Munro and To Plough Van Diemens Land, telling true stories of Australias founding convicts. It continues the tale of a pioneering family transforming the worlds biggest prison into a land of free enterprise and pride.Having grown up in the shadows of their parents pasts, children face the traumas of holding heads high in a society of change, a change intent on sweeping convict pasts under carpets as even educators lie to them. Parents agonise over preparing the next generation to cope. Must they deny their children their very heritage?The Terrible Truths takes you into the hearts of true characters unwittingly creating the culture of todays forthright Australians. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography A retired journalist, Kev spent many years touring the world, writing travel articles for airline magazines. His many adventures and misadventures became the bases for his several Action/Adventure novels. As a student of Australias founding as a convict settlement, Kevs six novels on that unique history, including the demise of the Aboriginal Dreamtime, are now legendary. He is certainly well qualified to write these intensive histories and visions of peoples traumas and courage - Kev is a Past President of the First Fleet Fellowship, Past Secretary of The Descendants of Convicts Inc and for his work during Australias Bicentenary, was created Honorary Life Member of The Regiment of Redcoat Descendants. Several biographies of significant people also have come from Kevs busy pen. Two works have been finalists in the International EPIC Awards and all twenty novels have been awarded by professional reviewers, either 5 Stars or 5+ or 5++ Stars. His two latest, however, received from Conger Book Reviews USA, its first and only 10 Star reviews!!! All works are available in Paperback or eBook. Kev is twice married and now enjoys single life, writing on his experiences and studies, relaxing in the Himalayan foothills of exotic Thailand. Review What They Are Saying About The Terrible TruthsI must agree with Australian historian, Kev Richardson, a proud sixth-generation First Fleeter, that denying the terrible truths of convictism and its atrocities, only made todays Australians stronger for knowing how their forebears clung together to cope with intolerance, bigotry, and hypocrisy of the times.Each new generation born at the penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemens Land in the 1800s, indeed proved themselves brave founders, who stuck together in bonded mate-ships as they desperately strove to survive.JoEllen-Conger Book Reviews, USA I found reading about the true history of the 1800s in Australia, an eye-opener. The developing society of Class Distinctions between the incarcerated prisoners, emancipated convicts, and those born free of convict-stock, struggling against the brutality dealt by the military and Upper Classes sent to command them, developed a colony with intense prejudices and hatreds. Many of the First Fleeters lived well into their eighties and nineties, bearing extremely large families, whose paths crisscrossed down throughout history. The second and third generations of illiterate sons and daughters, though free of having committed any crime, still carried the stigma of being convict-born.However, the times changed when schooling became available to the offspring of the many convict families; and the ups and downs of mining reversed their failing economies. It was then that it was decided to hide the terrible truth of their beginnings from their youngsters. It was an effort to build the countrys self-esteem. This created two factions: one, to hide from their sons and daughters the shame of having been convict-born; the other, wanting to preserve their personal pride in the strengths of their ethos.Kev Richardson brings to life the stories of the families struggling to survive in the penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemens Land. Braving untried lands, they faced devastating conditions, brutality, bigotry, and taxation. Here is a modern-day author bravely disclosing the terrible truths concealed behind the recorded history of the ancestors transported into a living hell, and how they really lived and loved. I highly recommend this series to all history lovers. This book will open your eyes to the shocking truths behind Australias hidden past.JoEllen-Conger Book Reviews, USA Details ISBN1597057037 Author Kev Richardson Short Title TERRIBLE TRUTHS Language English ISBN-10 1597057037 ISBN-13 9781597057035 Media Book Format Paperback Series Letita Munro UK Release Date 2016-05-13 Imprint Wings Epress, Inc. Pages 264 Publisher Wings Epress, Inc. Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-05-13 Series Number 3 Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:136105341;

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