Book description
After spending over three years in the horrific prisoner-of-war camps,
including those along the Thai-Burma Railway, Sally Dingo's father Max
was one of the fortunate ones: he came home. And yet, like most of the
22,000 Australian POWs of the Japanese, he would not, or could not, talk
about what happened with those closest to him. It is also the story of
Max's father Mort, who had served in World War I, the story of Max's
cobbers - the perhaps unique community of ex-POWs who kept each other
going - and the story of the mothers, wives and children who tried to
understand what their men were still going through, decades later. This
is the story of men, unsung and ordinary, who defended their country and
were reluctant to tell the tale. Sally Dingo is the author of the
bestselling book, DINGO: THE STORY OF OUR MOB.
