Physical description

Brown hard cover book with dust jacket. Dust jacket is covered in a bluish grey background with a single piece of barbed wire across it, the front also displays 4 thin sticks upright on the right hand side. There is a brown stripe across the bottom with publication details printed in white. The title is across the top of the cover and down the spine in brown lettering, outlined in white.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'PROPERTY OF VICTORIAN BRANCH RSL' [stamped in red ink on title page and bottom page edge]

Summary

Commemorates the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 Australian men and women that endured captivity as Prisoners of War.

"In a diverse range of countries and cultures, and under a variety of circumstances, the majority of Australian Prisoners of War have suffered not only the loss of freedom but neglect, privation, overwork, harsh treatment and disease. About one quarter of those captured in all conflicts died in captivity." [page xi].