Description
Title: Surviving Captivity – The campaign and POW Diary of Bob Christie 2/29th Battalion AIF 1942-1945
Author: Christie, R W
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9781921509964
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 196 pages
Comments: The survival of Australian prisoners of war by the Japanese has been attributed, variously, to Providence, mateship and just plain luck. POW diaries those remarkable expressions of the will to live & reveal another side to survival.
Surviving Captivity reveals an intensely personal and private battle, waged with the weapons of faith, hope and love of family. Bob Christie enlisted in the AIF in 1940, fought with the 2/29th Battalion in Malaya and Singapore, and was a POW in Changi and Thailand 19421945.
After the war he dedicated himself to the welfare of veterans and their families. As Hon. Secretary of the 2/29th Battalion AIF Association for more than 60 years, Bob is the acknowledged head of the Battalion family.
