No Taste for Carnage. Alex Sheppard: a portrait 1913-1997. A barefoot working class boy from Fitzroy, then a union advocate, Alex Sheppard rose to Colonel’s rank in the A.I.F. during World War 11, becoming Director of Organisation on the staff of Commander-in-Chief Blamey, and awarded a Military Cross for his courage and determination in evacuating 15,000 Allied troops from Greece in 1941. As a post-1945 rehabilitation officer in Greece, he denounced the atrocities of the Civil War, until expelled for obstructing a girl’s execution.
A tireless journalist, bookseller, publisher and campaigner against book censorship, his passion for democracy was a beacon in 1960s Sydney cultural life. Defiant of misused authority and a tenacious defender of human rights against the intolerance of the Cold War era, his life was an assertion of those legendary dinkum-Aussie qualities which make Australia a fair-go society.
A tireless journalist, bookseller, publisher and campaigner against book censorship, his passion for democracy was a beacon in 1960s Sydney cultural life. Defiant of misused authority and a tenacious defender of human rights against the intolerance of the Cold War era, his life was an assertion of those legendary dinkum-Aussie qualities which make Australia a fair-go society.
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