AUSTRALIAN MILITARY –
The extraordinary stories of Australia’s forgotten prisoners of war.
This a record of some of the extraordinary experiences of Australia’s and New Zealand’s forgotten prisoners of war. Journalist Paul Rea uncovered a shocking story of an Australian ex-POW who had been illegally thrown into a Nazi concentration camp known as Terezin (the Living Grave) in Czechoslovakia. His subsequent investigation tracked down more than a dozen veterans who broke a long silence to speak about their horrendous ordeals. Voices from the Fortress is the story of the men who survived.
- 277 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Australian
- World War, 1939-1945 — Prisoners and prisons, German
- Prisoners of war — Australia — Biography
- Prisoners of war — Czech Republic — Biography
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