'He was in his mid-twenties when he finally got away' – from Melbourne in 1936 over to Britain and Europe; 'In Search of Alan Moorehead' follows the expatriate Australian's trajectory from struggling Fleet Street journalist to celebrated war correspondent, later as a regular contributor to 'The New Yorker', minor novelist and major popular historian (subjects ranging from nineteenth century Africa to Captain Cook), and, in 1956, author of the first significant book about the Gallipoli campaign, described by Germaine Greer as 'a masterful account'.
