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'The stirring memoirs of a young Victorian farmer who fought as a private, N.C.O., and officer through the Great War from Anzac to the last engagement of his battalion. They were originally written for his own pleasure in after years, and without though of publication - a fact that greatly increases their value and interest.

Captain Rule has a keen eye for character and humorous situations, as well as a graphic pen for incident and military action. Dr. C. E. W. Bean, the Commonwealth official historian, who has read and quoted these memoirs in the Official History, has stated that they make one of the most vivid documents in the whole range of Australian war literature ... In the opinion of more than one who have read the manuscript, Jacka's Mob, as an authentic picture of the life of an Australian infantryman, has few, if any, equals' (dustjacket first edition).

Morris Miller has commented that 'some of the sketches are fictitiously presented'.