Description
Title: Goodnight Bobbie – One Family’s War
Author: Dodkin, Marilyn
Condition: Near Mint
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0868408506
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 294 pages
Comments: It is 1941. Australia is at war and there are fears of an attack on the homeland. Captain Bobbie Puflett, a doctor serving with the 10th Australian General Hospital of the 8th Division in Malaya, writes to his parents Bob and Ethel and sister Del.
When the Allies surrender to the Japanese in February 1942, Bobbie is one of 15,000 men of the 8th Division who disappear. It is eighteen months before his family knows that he is a prisoner of war, but they continue to write. This is one family’s story told through letters. We learn of everyday life in wartime Sydney and service in the allied forces before the fall of Singapore. Most of all the letters bring to life the pain of separation.