The Bulldog Track by Peter Phelps

The Bulldog Track by Peter Phelps

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SKU TBM9780733639777
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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780733639777
Book Condition: Very Good
Author: Peter Phelps
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2018
Format: Paperback
Pages: 276 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the other Kokoda Track. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps shares this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.

March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found work as a carpenter in the goldfields of the New Guinea Highlands. No one expected the Japanese to attack in the Pacific. But they did. Tom and his mates weren't going to hang around and wait to be killed. With escape routes bombed by the Japanese, their only option was to try to reach safety by foot through some of the most rugged terrain on Earth - the Bulldog Track.

Back home in Sydney, Rose Phelps, their son, George, and three daughters, Joy, Shirley and Ann, waited for news of Tom's fate. George watched the horrors of war unfold on newsreels, knowing his dad was 'over there'.

Travelling by foot, raft, canoe, schooner, train, luck and courage, Tom Phelps, half-starved and suffering from malaria, would eventually make it home. His stories of New Guinea would lead his son and grandson to their own experiences with the country.

The Bulldog Track is a grandson's story of an ordinary man's war. It is an incredible tale of survival and the indomitable Aussie spirit. (publisher blurb)

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