This is a unique volume of WWII letters that includes both sides of the story, at home and away at war. Marilyn Dodkin provides background information to the events of war and everyday life in Australia. These letters will resonate for those who lived in Australia during WWII and also for their children. The letters themselves are evocative and emotional. Title will be supported by a full national media campaign, print, radio and TV. It is 1941. Australia is at war and there are fears of an attack on the homeland. Captain ...
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This is a unique volume of WWII letters that includes both sides of the story, at home and away at war. Marilyn Dodkin provides background information to the events of war and everyday life in Australia. These letters will resonate for those who lived in Australia during WWII and also for their children. The letters themselves are evocative and emotional. Title will be supported by a full national media campaign, print, radio and TV. It is 1941. Australia is at war and there are fears of an attack on the homeland. Captain Bobbie Puflett, a doctor serving with the 10th Australian General Hospital of the 8th Division in Malaya, writes to his parents Bob and Ethel and sister Del. When the Allies surrender to the Japanese in February 1942, Bobbie is one of 15,000 men of the 8th Division who disappear. It is eighteen months before his family knows that he is a prisoner of war, but they continue to write. This is one family's story told through letters. We learn of everyday life in wartime Sydney and service in the allied forces before the fall of Singapore. Most of all the letters bring to life the pain of separation.
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Very Good. 9780868408507. Size: 9"-10" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0868408506. ISBN/EAN: 9780868408507. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12923.
