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The Battle Within - POWs in postwar Australia (Paperback)
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The Battle Within - POWs in postwar Australia (Paperback)
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List price R710
Loot Price R272
Discovery Miles 2 720
You Save R438 (62%)
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Head-aches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been
released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who
just don't seem to make a success of our return""- ROBERT, A
RETURNED POW This landmark and compelling book follows the stories
of 15,000 Australian prisoners of war from the moment they were
released by the Japanese at the end of World War II. Their struggle
to rehabilitate themselves and to win compensation and
acknowledgement from their own country was just beginning. This
moving book shows that 'the battle within' was both a personal and
a national one.Prize-winning historian Christina Twomey finds that
official policies and attitudes towards these men were equivocal
and arbitrary for almost forty years. The image of a defeated and
emaciated soldier held prisoner by people of a different race did
not sit well with the mythology of Anzac. Drawing on the records of
the Prisoner of War Trust Fund for the first time, this book
presents the struggles of returned prisoners in their own words. It
also shows that memories of captivity forged new connections with
people of the Asia-Pacific region, as former POWs sought to
reconcile with their captors and honour those who had helped them.
A grateful nation ultimately lauded and commemorated POWs as worthy
veterans from the 1980s, but the real story of the fight to get
there has not been told until now.
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