Description
Title: Digger’s Story – Surviving the Japanese POW camps was just the beginning
Author: David Barrett & Brian Robertson
Condition: Mint
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9781743007426
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 304 pages
Comments: David ‘Digger ‘ Barrett was given his nickname at an early age by his father. It was prophetic: as an eighteen-year-old looking for fun and adventure, he enlisted as a private and served in World War II. After surviving the Malayan campaign, he would spend over three years as a Japanese prisoner of war.
It would take Digger more than fifty years to rid his mind of the hate he had for the guards of the Imperial Japanese Army. His story of courage, mateship and survival takes him from the prison camps of Thailand and Burma to the fight for reparations for all Australian POWs of the Japanese.