Pamela Rushby

Pamela Rushby, Australian author

The Horses Didn’t Come Home

HarperCollins, March 2012The Horses Didn't Come Home

A boy, his horse – a war far from home

The last great cavalry charge in history took place at Beersheba in the Sinai Desert in 1917. It was Australian soldiers and horses that took part in, and won, this amazing, unexpected, unorthodox victory. The men proudly proclaimed it was their great-hearted horses that won the day. But, in the end, the horses didn’t come home …