Books at the Brewery - Edmund Goldrick
ANZAC GUERRILLAS
About the book
Anzac Guerrillas is the incredible true story of how a handful of escaped Australian soldiers became
resistance fighters, double agents and spies in Yugoslavia during World War II. When the Germans took thousands of Allied prisoners during the catastrophic Greek campaign of 1941, a handful of Australian soldiers escaped from prison trains in occupied Yugoslavia. What awaited them was not passage home, but a brutal underground war where the fate of a nation was at stake. Told through the eyes of two of the Australian escapees – Castlemaine mineworker Ross Sayers and Richmond storeman Ronald Jones – Anzac Guerrillas is the incredible true story of how these men escaped German captivity, only to become embroiled in a civil war in Yugoslavia (royalist ÄŒetniks versus communist Partisans).
After coming across Ross Sayers’ name while researching The Great Escape in 2021, Edmund followed Ross’s paper trail and discovered a list of Australians who served in Yugoslavia in WW2. It became apparent that those who survived were so scarred by their service that they rarely spoke of it. With no oral accounts to consult, Edmund read through archival material from Australian, American, British, German, Serbian and old Yugoslav deposits to piece together Ross’ story, and that of the other Australians.
About the Author
Edmund Goldrick grew up in Canberra, and after studying at Australian National University went
on to work as a political and strategic studies researcher and journalist in the United Kingdom.
Most recently, following an article he wrote on Australian servicemen in Slovenia during World
War II, his meticulous research and German language skills led to him co-writing The Greatest
Escape with Neil Churches, a groundbreaking account of the escape of Australian, British, French, and New Zealander prisoners-of-war from German-occupied Slovenia in 1944.
Anzac Guerrillas is Edmund's first book
Date:
Monday August 4 2025
Time:
6 00pm for a 6 30pm start and 8 00pm finish
Venue:
The Taproom, Shedshaker Brewery, 9 Walker Street, Castlemaine
Cost:
$15
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