Free Download Crawl to Freedom: Australian POW Escapes of World War One by Darren Prickett
English | July 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1923144251 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 8.57 MB
During World War One over 4000 Australian servicemen were taken prisoner. Yet the prisoner of war experiences of the Anzacs are frequently forgotten, treated as mere footnotes in the proliferation of the literature of Australian military history. Where individual stories have been told they are often from the perspective of life as a POW. It could be assumed that the Australian POWs of WWI passed quietly into captivity. The opposite was in fact the case.
