My War. An Australian Commando In New Guinea And Borneo 1943-1945

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ABC Books
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 284 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: This is no ordinary war memoir. In 1943, 20-year-old Brian Walpole left his Melbourne home for the steaming jungles of New Guinea to serve in one of Australias first commando units. Then in Borneo, as a member of the elite Z Special Unit, he fought alongside headhunting Sea Dyaks, who are paid a bounty for every Japanese head taken. Brian learns their language, sleeps in their longhouses. The experience changes him forever.Yet despite being surrounded on all sides by grotesque images of death, this is above all a story of life, reflecting the authors motto: life is for living. His real-life story records a true experience of Australia at war that has so far been little known.

ISBN: 9780733314636