Physical description

Hard-cover book with cream coloured dust jacket. There is an olive green and black toned photographic image wrapped around the top half of the cover and spine, it shows soldiers leading a man with bandaged eyes towards a jeep in the jungle, with other soldiers gathered around.
The lower half of the cover is cream with blue text. There is a white label on the base of the spine with blue handwritten call number .

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'PROPERTY OF VICTORIAN BRANCH R.S.L.' [stamped in red ink on title page]

Summary

It is the story of the men of 2/2 Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces, who fought in the Middle East, Greece, and Papua New Guinea. The author describes the experience of battle and warfare itself: of fear and injury, of hunger and tiredness, of sickness, of marches through snow and jungles, of loneliness and bravery. The book provides an anatomy of war through the experience of this volunteer battalion who fought in all major theatres in World War II in which Australians took part. [from Trove]