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Arthur's War - Book
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Arthur's War by Arthur Bancroft (Hardcover, 2010)
- In November 1940, Arthur Bancroft kissed his sweetheart, Mirla, goodbye and signed up with the Royal Australian Navy to go to war. He was 19 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 is a story for
- all Australians: a captivating saga of courage, mateship, survival - and love.
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