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Note: Arthur Bancroft with John Harman.
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Arthur's War
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'In November 1940, Arthur Bancroft kissed his sweetheart, Mirla, goodbye and signed up with the Royal Australian Navy to go to war. He was nineteen years old. Arthur's War is the extraordinary story of his ordeal, and his survival. Arthur made a habit of cheating death - on the ill-fated HMAS Perth, which was sunk during the Battle of the Sunda Strait; as a prisoner of war on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway, where it is said a man died for every sleeper laid; and miraculously surviving a second shipwreck that left him lost at sea, clinging to debris, for six days. While a POW he risked his life to keep a secret diary written on paper scraps with stolen pencils recording the agony and comradeship of life on the railway, which has never before been published.

'Against all odds Arthur made it back to Australia and to Mirla, who never lost hope for his eventual return all those years he was lost at war. His story is a story for all Australians: a captivating saga of courage, mateship, survival - and love.' (From the publisher's website.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2010 .
      Extent: [4], 306p., [16]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus. (some col.), facsims, maps, ports
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 2 August 2010.
      ISBN: 9780670073467 (hbk.)

Works about this Work

Off the Shelf William Yeoman , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 28 September 2010; (p. 7)

— Review of Remember Me Liz Byrski , 2000 single work autobiography ; Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett Dorothy Hewett , 2010 selected work poetry ; Arthur's War Arthur Bancroft , John Harman , 2010 single work autobiography ; Shipwreck at Madman's Corner Mike Lefroy , 1999 single work non-fiction
Off the Shelf : Memoir Owen Richardson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 September 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of Arthur's War Arthur Bancroft , John Harman , 2010 single work autobiography
Arthur's War Alexander McRobbie , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 - 29 August 2010; (p. 25)

— Review of Arthur's War Arthur Bancroft , John Harman , 2010 single work autobiography
Arthur's War Alexander McRobbie , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 - 29 August 2010; (p. 25)

— Review of Arthur's War Arthur Bancroft , John Harman , 2010 single work autobiography
Off the Shelf : Memoir Owen Richardson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 September 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of Arthur's War Arthur Bancroft , John Harman , 2010 single work autobiography
Off the Shelf William Yeoman , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 28 September 2010; (p. 7)

— Review of Remember Me Liz Byrski , 2000 single work autobiography ; Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett Dorothy Hewett , 2010 selected work poetry ; Arthur's War Arthur Bancroft , John Harman , 2010 single work autobiography ; Shipwreck at Madman's Corner Mike Lefroy , 1999 single work non-fiction
Last amended 4 Oct 2010 09:56:08
Subjects:
  • Burma-Thailand Railway,
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    Burma,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 1940s
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