Love Letters from a War: The Letters of Corporal John Leslie Johnson and his Family June 1940 - May 1944 by Len Johnson

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair to good condition. Bending of the right corner book cover.

John Johnson was a carpenter in Walwa, country Victoria. He was almost 38 years old when he enlisted as an infantryman in the 2nd AIF. This book is a moving account of love and loss, of the daily minutiae of raising eight children in rural Victoria and the hellish conditions of the Siege of Tobruk. It is an extraordinary story of an Australian family at war.