The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia by Christina Twomey
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The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia by Christina Twomey

TBM9781742235684
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ISBN: 9781742235684
Author: Christina Twomey
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2018
Format: Paperback
Pages: 302 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Piece of sticky tape on half-title page.

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. (publishers blurb)

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