Historical information

From Dust cover front flap;
"IT HAPPENED TO US MARK II".
"These are the stories of the boys of the 4th Anti-/ Tank Regiment who served in World War II in/ Malaya and Singapore in the defence of Australia/ and spent three and a half years of their lives/ as POW's."

Physical description

Hardcover book with Dust Cover.
Hardcover - cardboard with blue buckram, gold coloured print on spine.
Dustcover - paper, black coloured ink print on front, spine, back and flaps. Background colours of orange and yellow. Ilustrated - front, copy of a painting by Murray Griffin "Attack on Japanese Tanks on the Bakri-Parit Sulong Road". Above 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, colour patch oval red over blue on diagonal. Back - black and white portrait photographs - collection of 20.
286 pages, cut, plain, white coloured paper. Illustrated black pen drawings and sketches (by Don Moore).