| ORDER HERE | ||
 |
||
|
Fear Drive My Feet
The Classic WWII memoir of an Australian behind enemy lines in new guinea
Peter Ryan "The lone hand and the rifle that win where armies fail." So quoted "Weary" Dunlop when he finished reading Fear Drive My Feet, a book he calls "a moving account of a young man's lonely heroism in the face of great adversity. " As an Australian soldier of 18, Ryan was sent out alone and untrained, to conduct intelligence patrols for months on end, deep in the jungles of Japanese-occupied New Guinea. Without heroics, his book describes the hardships and dangers of such a life, though they did not blind him to the stupendous beauty of the country and the nobility of its native peoples. Fear Drive My Feet, rarely out of print over the last forty years, is a classic story of the darkest days of World War II , when Australia itself stood in deadly danger. As a writer about men at war, Jill Kerr Conway has compared Peter Ryan to Siegfried Sassoon, famous author of World War I. For, the work described in this book, Ryan was awarded the Military Medal and was mentioned in dispatches. 301 pp - Paperback - Published 2001
Australia = AUD$23 (including postage, packing and GST) PNG and NZ = AUD$32 (including economy air mail and packing) The World = AUD$34 (including economy air mail and packing) Note: The overseas price are for individual books, discount available for multiple purchases.
|
||
| ORDER HERE ` | ||
|
|
||
