Description
Title: Brother Digger
Author: Shaw, Patricia
Condition: Very Good Plus – Foxing to the page block and gift inscription on the front-end page.
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0909104701
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 174 pages
Comments: This is a second-hand book.
Drawn from the reminiscences of the Sullivan brothers, and the friends that fought beside them during World War 2, Brother Digger is the true story of the five Sullivan brothers from Queensland who all enlisted in the 2nd AIF.
The Sullivans lived in rural Toowoomba, in a family of twelve children. Parents, James and Sylvia, did it tough during the Depression, though always managed to find sustenance for any callers looking for a feed.
Each of the Sullivans had a different war, and the author managed to interview all except the eldest, Jack, who passed in 1969. The information provided by each of these men, forty years later, is conversational in tone, personal, and none of them hold back. This makes the history feel real.
